Medievalism in America Panel Draft

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)