Here is the first draft of our proposed session for the 2019 meeting of the New England American Studies Association.
Make Me Medieval: Appropriations of the Middle Ages in American Culture
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Representation(s): Image and Reality, Identity and Community: 2019 New England American Studies Association Conference.
Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, MA.
8 June 2019.
“All-American Arthuriana: The Appropriation of the Matter of Britain during the American Civil War Era,” Michael A. Torregrossa (Independent Scholar)
“Might Makes Right: Medieval Combat Sports and the Legitimization of a Fascist Middle Ages,” Ken Mondschein (University of Massachusetts-Amherst-Mt Ida)
“ ‘Beautiful, willful, and dead before her time’: Reclaiming Female Characters in A Song of Ice and Fire and Its Fandom,” Kavita Mudan Finn (Independent Scholar)
(possibly a fourth presenter)
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