Uncharted Medievalisms at NeMLA

Here's the information on our other sponsored session at NeMLA this weekend. My thanks to my co-organizer, Carl Sell, for the idea.

Northeast Modern Language Association 57th Annual Convention

Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown (Pittsburgh, PA)/Zoom

3.7 Uncharted Medievalisms: Medieval Borrowings in Games

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and Carl B. Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Sponsored by the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Thursday, Mar 5: Track 3 (01:15-02:30 EST)

Chair: Carl Sell, University of Pittsburgh

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

Location: Birmingham (Media Equipped)

Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies and Media Studies

"Losing to Win: Failure, Loss, and Legacy in Middle-Earth: Shadow of War" 

Seth Lee, Slippery Rock University

Dr. J. Seth Lee earned his PhD in English literature from the University of Kentucky. He is a scholar of the literature of exiles and a digital humanist. He has published on Early Modern exile in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 and Reformation. Lee’s monograph, The Discourse of Exile in Early Modern English Literature, is available as part of the Routledge Research in Early Modern History Series. It examines questions about the formation of subjectivity and nationalism in the minds of exiles and the development of exile from a “nation” in its modern sense. Additionally, he researches and writes on interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies informed by digital technology. He published most recently in Medieval Perspectives on how eye-tracking cameras revealed insights into student engagement with medieval illuminated manuscripts. He teaches literature and writing at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.

"The Evolution of Medieval Virtue in the Ultima Series" 

Amir Saffar, Kent State University

Amir Saffar is currently doing his PhD in English Literature with his dissertation being based on pulp literature. Amir also enjoys bridging the gap between different disciplines, in order to create more dynamic discussions. This is born from his prior work in Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering and Biology.

"Immersive Simulation of Medieval Play Spaces: Modeling the York Cycle in Unity3D" 

Dennis Jerz, Seton Hill University

Dennis G. Jerz,  Associate Professor of English at Seton Hill University, has scholarly interests that include critical code studies, digital archeology and ecocritical game studies (all connected to the study of the foundational text adventure game "Colossal Cave Adventure." He posts about his Unity3D projects at jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/tag/unity3d/ (on what has been described as the first blog devoted to English studies, established in 1999).