Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Sponsored Session NeMLA 2023: Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins

Details on our sponsored session for the upcoming meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association in Niagra Falls, NY.

Registration information and the full schedule can be accessed at NeMLA's website from this link: https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html.


Friday

Mar 24 Track 9

01:15-02:45

9.15 Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth (Part 1)

Chair: Nick Katsiadas, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Carl Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Location: Olmstead / NCC (Media Equipped)

British & Comparative Literature

"As if It Never Were: Moria, Lothlorien, and the Temporality of the Old English Ruins Motif" Mary Kate Hurley, Ohio University

"Dead at the Mountain’s Feet: Blame and Vengeance in Dwarven and Human Ruins" Victoria Smurthwaite, Kutztown University

"Tolkien’s 'Many Dark Places': Monstrous Ruins in Old English and Norse Sagas" Morgan Hunter, University of South Florida & Kyra Lance, University of South Florida

"The Blade of the King: Tolkien, Arthur, and the Remnants of Kingship" Carl Sell, University of Pittsburgh


Friday

Mar 24 Track 10

03:00-04:30

10.15 Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins: The Function of Relics and Ruins in Middle-earth (Part 2)

Chair: Nick Katsiadas, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Carl Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Location: Olmstead / NCC (Media Equipped)

British & Comparative Literature

"Tolkien's Tower by the Sea" Angela Fulk, SUNY Buffalo State College

"'Too greedily and too deep': Decadence and the Ruins of Empire in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings" Sandra Leonard, Kutztown University

"‘Shall I always be left behind?’: Women’s Roles and Ruins Depicted in Tolkien and Wordsworth" Katie Poland, University of Alabama

"Romantic Nostalgia in Tolkien's Relics and Ruins: Longing for Aman, Gondolin, and Númenor" Nick Katsiadas, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania


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