Re-Creating Camelot? Community-Building in Arthurian Studies (A Roundtable) (Virtual)
59th International Congress on Medieval Studies (you must register to attend)
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)
Virtual Session
Session 474: Saturday, 11 May 2024, from 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Co-Sponsored by Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and
International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Co-Organizers: Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College, and Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma
Presider: Carl B. Sell, Univ. of Pittsburgh
(This session will be recorded.)
Paper 1:
“There Are One or Two Changes I'd Like You to Consider”: The Elusive Attempts to Revise Lerner and Lowe’s Camelot in Contemporary America
Jarrod DePrado, Sacred Heart University
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Jarrod DePrado is an instructor at Sacred Heart University in the Departments of Languages & Literature and Catholic Studies. He received his graduate degree from Boston University in English and American Literature. His area of specialization is drama (including Shakespeare, 20th & 21st Century American Drama, and musical theatre), with a focus on adaptation studies and American politics.
Paper 2:
Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Drew Narayanan is a PhD Candidate in Art History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His dissertation project focuses on the “Sultan of Babylon” as historical and fantastical racialized construction in 14th and 15th century Latin Christian manuscripts. He has also won a prize for his peer-reviewed article titled “Sir Palamedes the Indelibly ‘Saracen’ Knight: Heraldry, Monstrosity, and Race in Fifteenth-Century Arthurian Romance Manuscripts.”
Paper 3:
Richard Utz, Georgia Institute of Technology
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Richard Utz is Professor of Medievalism Studies and Senior Associate Dean in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. His contributions to the Roundtable topic include "The Chameleon Principle: Reflections on the Status of Arthurian Studies in the Academy," Arthuriana (2007) and Medievalism: A Manifesto (2017).
Paper 4:
Finding Fellowship in the Collections: Arthuriana and Programming in the Rossell Hope Robbins Library
Steffi Delcourt, University of Rochester
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Steffi Delcourt is a graduate student in the Department of English at the University of Rochester. She works as a Graduate Library Assistant at the Rossell Hope Robbins Library and as a Staff Editor at the Middle English Texts Series. She studies 14th and 15th century Arthurian romances, medieval death culture, and the development of the Arthurian tradition as a whole.