I am pleased to announce the schedule for our sponsored session for Kalamazoo this year. (Panel information has been updated on 6 April 2018 to correct errors introduced in the submission process.)
Details follow.
Conference information can be found at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress.
53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University
10- 13 May 2018
Saturday, 1:30 PM
417 SCHNEIDER 1160
Past, Present, Future: Medieval Monsters and Their Afterlives I
Sponsor: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Presider: Anna Czarnowus, Univ. of Silesia
Giants in the History of England: The Final Frontier and Steven Spielberg’s The BFG
Geneviève Pigeon, Univ. du Québec–Montréal
The Monstrous Host: Hospitality and Hostility in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
Matthew Vernon, Univ. of California–Davis
Merlin the White(washed): The Entertainment Industry’s Evasion of Merlin’s Demonic Heritage
Michael A. Torregrossa
A Rapacious Daemon in King Arthur’s Court: Re-designating Merlin as a Demonic Rapist in Arthuriana [note corrected title]
Tirumular Narayanan, California State Univ.–Chico
Saturday, 3:30 PM
469 SCHNEIDER 1160
Past, Present, Future: Medieval Monsters and Their Afterlives II
Sponsor: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
Presider: Whitney Dirks-Schuster, Grand Valley State Univ.
Haunting Poltergeists: Historical and Cinematic Representations of Ghosts as Demonic Monsters
Rex Barnes, Columbia Univ.
The Queer and the Dead: Medieval Revenants and Their Afterlives in In the Flesh
Elliot Mason, Concordia Univ. Montréal
The Witcher’s Anal Eye: Monstrous Technologies of the Medievalized Other in Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Kevin Moberly , Old Dominion Univ.; Brent Addison Moberly, Indiana Univ.–Bloomington
The Monstrous Mongols in Medieval Eurasia and Modern Day Film
Colleen C. Ho, Univ. of Maryland
