Studies of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

This is the official blog of The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages, a community of scholars and enthusiasts organized to promote and foster scholarship on and teaching and discussion of representations of the medieval in post-medieval popular culture and mass media. Encompassing material produced from the close of the Middle Ages to today, these medievalisms can be categorized as survivals, revivals, or re-creations of the medieval in post-medieval eras.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Kalamazoo 2012 CFPs

The calls for papers for our 2012 sessions for the International Congress on Medieval Studies have been posted and can be accessed by clicking the links below:

Are You From Camelot?: Recent Arthurian Film, Television, and Electronic Games as Innovators of the Arthurian Tradition and Their Impact (Roundtable) (9/1/11; Kalamazoo 5/10-13/12)

The Comics Get Medieval at Kalamazoo: New Perspectives for Incorporating Comics into Medieval Studies Teaching and Research (9/1/11; Kalamazoo 5/10-13/12)

Submissions are due by September 1st.

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Current Calls for Papers

  • 2013: 12-01-13: The Comics Get Medieval 2014 (12/1/13; PCA 4/16-19/24 Chicago, IL)
  • 2012: 12-01-12: The Comics Get Medieval 2013 (12/1/12; PCA 3/27-30/13 Washington, DC)
  • 2011: 12-01-11: The Comics Get Medieval 2012: A Celebration of Medieval-Themed Comics in Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of Prince Valiant (12/1/11; PCA 4/11-14/12 Boston, MA)
  • 2011: 12-01-11: Once and Future Kings? The Return of King Arthur in the Post-medieval World (12/1/11; Plymouth, NH 4/20-21/12)
  • 2011: 09-01-11: The Comics Get Medieval at Kalamazoo: New Perspectives for Incorporating Comics into Medieval Studies Teaching and Research (9/1/11; Kalamazoo 5/10-13/12) [UPDATE 9/25/11: SUBMISSIONS CLOSED]
  • 2011: 09-01-11: Are You From Camelot?: Recent Arthurian Film, Television, and Electronic Games as Innovators of the Arthurian Tradition and Their Impact (Roundtable) (9/1/11; Kalamazoo 5/10-13/12) [UPDATE 9/25/11: SUBMISSIONS CLOSED]
  • 2010: 09-01-10: Twenty-first Century Medievalisms: Re-envisioning the Medieval in the Contemporary World (Roundtable) (9/1/10; Kalamazoo, MI 5/12-15/11) [UPDATE 9/7/10: SUBMISSIONS CLOSED]
  • 2009: 12-15-09: Beowulf on Film/TV/Electronic Games Collection (PROJECT IN LIMBO AS OF 5/1/2010)
  • 2009: 07-15-09: Medieval TV Collection (PROJECT IN LIMBO AS OF 5/1/2010)

Officers of the Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

Mission Statement/History

Michael A. Torregrossa, Co-Founder, Blog Editor, and Listserv Moderator, and The Comics Get Medieval Sessions Co-Organizer

A specialist in popular Arthuriana, Michael A. Torregrossa, MA, is a graduate of the Medieval Studies program at the University of Connecticut (Storrs) and has presented his research on popular medievalisms at regional, national, and international conferences. Michael's published work includes essays on the Matter of Britain in film, television, and the comics medium, annotated bibliographies of the same, and a series of entries for the three latest updates to The Arthurian Encyclopedia. Michael is also the founder of the Institute for the Advancement of Scholarship on the Magic-Wielding Figures of Visual Electronic Multimedia and the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain.

Carl James Grindley, Co-Founder

Mikee Delony, Kalamazoo Sessions Coordinator

Jason Tondro, The Comics Get Medieval Sessions Co-Organizer




Society Web Sites

  • The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages Home Page
  • Are You From Camelot? Blog
  • Arthur of the Comics Project, The
  • Comics Medium Links
  • King Arthur Forever
  • Medieval Comics Project, The
  • Medieval Studies at the Movies
  • PCMA-CFP: Popular Culture & Middle Ages Calls for Papers/Proposals List
  • Review of Popular Culture and the MIddle Ages

Society-Sponsored Discussion Lists (at Yahoo! Groups): all lists require a Yahoo! account

  • PCMA_DL : The Popular Culture and the Middle Ages Discussion List
  • ARTHPCDL: The Arthurian Popular Culture Discussion List
  • arthurian_comixlist: The Arthurian Comics Discussion List
  • MCP_DL: The Medieval Comics Project Discussion List
  • MSAM_DL : The Medieval Studies at the Movies Discussion List

Affliated Sites

  • Reel Wizards Project, The (official blog of the Institute for the Advancement of Scholarship on the Magic-Wielding Figures of Visual Electronic Multimedia)
  • Researching the Villains of the Matter of Britain (official blog of The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain)
  • Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area Blog (official site of the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association)

Blog Archive

  • ►  2012 (2)
    • ►  January (2)
      • Medievalisms by Pugh and Weisl
      • SMART 2011 Issues
  • ▼  2011 (61)
    • ►  November (6)
      • Tolkien and His Sources
      • Welsh Mythology and Folklore in Popular Culture
      • Corporate Medievalism
      • CFP Medieval Popular Culture and Arthurian Legends...
      • CFP ICoM 2012
      • ICoM 2011
    • ►  September (5)
      • Kalamazoo 2012 Sessions
      • Our Kalamazoo Sessions 2012
      • Medievalism at NEPCA
      • Beowulf by James Rumford
      • Medieval Popular Culture and Arthurian Legends (12...
    • ▼  July (9)
      • CFP Global Shakespeare, Spec. Issue of Shakespeare...
      • CFP "Does Beowulf Allow (for) Illustration?" (due ...
      • CFP The Once and Future Classroom Journal seeks su...
      • CFP Shakespearean Echoes (7/20/11)
      • CFP Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Centu...
      • Kalamazoo 2012 CFPs
      • Mythcon 42
      • Kalamazoo 2012 Update
      • Shakespearean Gothic
    • ►  May (17)
      • Medievalism at Leeds
      • CFP: The Return of King Arthur in the Post-Medieva...
      • Our Kalamazoo Sessions Updated
      • Saturday and Sunday Sessions at Kalamazoo 2011
      • Medievalism at NeMLA 2011
      • Medievalism at ALA 2011
      • Medieval Academy CFP 2012 (8/1/11)
      • Medievalism in Scottsdale
      • Friday Sessions for Kalamazoo 2011
      • Kalamazoo 2011 Thursday Sessions
      • Medievalism at PCA/ACA
      • CFP Treatment of Medieval Poetry in the Modern Wor...
      • CFP All Your History Are Belong to Us: The Middle ...
      • CFP Battle of Agincourt Collection (no date)
      • CFP: Recasting the Past: Early Modern to Postmoder...
      • Medievalism in the Latest Number of Mythlore
      • Comics Get Medieval 2012 Call for Papers
    • ►  April (12)
      • Studies in Medievalism Vol. 20
      • A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance--Now in Pa...
      • Margaret Rogerson's The York Mystery Plays: Perfor...
      • Hugh Magennis's Translating Beowulf: Modern Versio...
      • Medievalism at Plymouth State University
      • Clare Simmon's Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era...
      • CFP International Conference on Medievalism (4/18...
      • Year's Work in Medievalism 24 (2009) and 25 (2010)...
      • Medievalism at Plymouth States
      • Monstrous Medievalisms 2011 (Call for Papers)
      • Advance Notice Kalamazoo 2012
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2010 (106)
    • ►  December (8)
    • ►  November (11)
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Notices

Proposals are still being accepted for collections on medieval-themed television and Beowulf on film / TV / electronic games.

We are also seeking essays to round out a collection on Arthurian film / TV / electronic games to go to press in late 2011/early 2012. We are especially interested in exploration of Arthurian video / computer / electronic games and Arthurian films / TV from the 1900s through the 1950s and from 2000 through 2011.


Help build our online databases

Editors of collections and authors of articles, monographs, theses, and dissertations on topics related to the study of medieval themes in popular culture are invited to send hard copies to the Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages at 34 Second Street, Smithfield, RI 02917-3627, United States, for inclusion in our online bibliographies to be relaunched in 2010. Authors of web pages or web-posted material may contact us via email. Regarding all other material, please email us.

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Medieval-Themed Blogs of Note

  • The Medieval Academy of America
    Royal Manuscript Project
    2 days ago
  • Medieval News
    Ireland: So what have the Romans ever done for us?
    2 days ago
  • MEDIEVALISM
    neomed & media
    2 days ago
  • Modern Medieval
    A New Hope
    2 days ago
  • Unlocked Wordhoard
    Fark Alert
    2 weeks ago
  • medievally speaking
    Berns/Johnston, eds., Medievalism
    4 weeks ago
  • MEARCSTAPA
    Kalamazoo Program, 2012
    4 weeks ago
  • King Arthur Forever: The Matter of Britain in Postmedieval Popular Culture
    Arthuriana 21.4 Out Now
    2 months ago
  • The Society for the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages
    Arthurian Medievalisms and the Public Understanding of the Past
    4 months ago
  • Researching the Villains of the Matter of Britain
    Kalamazoo Roundtable Update
    4 months ago
  • The Reel Wizards Project
    Blog Update
    5 months ago

Making Medieval Studies Matter (Academic Societies, Blogs, Conferences, Journals)

  • American Literary History (journal) (full-text access)
  • Arthurian Literature (journal) (D. S. Brewer)
  • Arthurian Studies series (D. S. Brewer)
  • Arthuriana (journal)
  • Arthuriana (Project MUSE)
  • Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (aka ANZAMEMS)
  • Camelot in Four Colors: A Survey of the Arthurian Legend in Comics
  • Camelot Project at the University of Rochester: Arthurian Texts, Images, Bibliographies and Basic Information, The
  • Canadian Society of Medievalists
  • Chaucer Review, The (journal)
  • Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  • Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies Digital Archive
  • Cumulative Index for Supplements to THE NEW ARTHURIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA by Raymond H. Thompson, Norris J. Lacy, and Brandy Brown Hancock (The ARTHURIANA / Camelot Project Bibliographies)
  • Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, The (SERIES OF PRIMARY TEXTS)
  • Early Book Society, The (EBS)
  • Early English Text Society, The
  • Exemplaria (journal)
  • Exemplaria (journal) on Facebook
  • Florilegium (journal)
  • For the Medievalists! : A Bibliography of Video Game Scholarship by Robin M. Blanchard
  • Gesta (journal)
  • Haskins Society at Boston College, The
  • Haskins Society for Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norma, Angevin and Viking History, The
  • History Today (journal)
  • International Arthurian Society
  • International Arthurian Society: British Branch
  • International Arthurian Society: North American Branch
  • International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts
  • International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
  • International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University)
  • International Joan of Arc Sociey
  • International John Gower Society (JGS)
  • International Medieval Congress (University of Leeds, Leeds, Eng.)
  • International Piers Plowman Society (IPPS)
  • International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies (ISHBS)
  • Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies, The
  • Journal of Late Antiquity, The
  • Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
  • Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies
  • Journal of the Wooden O
  • Leeds Centre for Dante Studies, The
  • Les Cahiers Shakespeare en devenir: The Journal of Shakespearean Afterlives
  • Library, The (journal) (full-text access)
  • Mallorn - The Journal of the Tolkien Society
  • Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier
  • McFarland Publishing: Medieval Studies
  • MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application)
  • MEARCSTAPA (Monsters: the Experimental Association for the Research of Cryptozoology through Scholarly Theory And Practical Application) (blog)
  • Medieval Academy of America Blog, The
  • Medieval Academy of America Conference Calendar
  • Medieval Academy of America, The
  • Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, The
  • Medieval and Renaissance Forum (Plymouth State University)
  • Medieval Club of New York, The (blog)
  • Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO)
  • Medieval Electronic Multimedia Organization (MEMO) (blog)
  • Medieval News (blog)
  • Medieval Perspectives (journal)
  • Medieval Popular Culture Area of The Popular Culture Association
  • Medievalism in the Modern @ Townsend Humanities Lab
  • Medievally Speaking: Medievalism in Review
  • Mid-America Medieval Association (MAMA)
  • Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association (relevant areas: Bewulf to Shakespeare: Popular Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; J R R Tolkien & C S Lewis; and Sci-Fi/Fantasy)
  • Misericordia International
  • Modern Language Association, The
  • Modern Medieval (blog)
  • Mosaic, A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature
  • Mythcon (annual conference of the Mythopoeic Society)
  • Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
  • Mythopoeic Press
  • Mythopoeic Society Reviews
  • Mythopoeic Society, The
  • NEBULA: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship
  • New College Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Studies
  • New England Medieval Conference, The (NEMC)
  • New England Saga Society (NESS)
  • Northeast Popular/American Culture Association, The (NEPCA)
  • Northeast Popular/American Culture Association, The: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Legend Blog
  • Parergon (journal of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies)
  • Parergon: Full Table of Contents and Book Reviews (pdfs) Vols. 19 (2002) and up
  • Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association
  • postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies
  • Researching the Villains of the Matter of Britain (blog)
  • Richard Utz and Aneta Dygon's "Medievalism and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Studies"
  • Richard Utz's Medievallism
  • Robin Hood at Rochester (Univ. of Rocester)
  • Robin Hood Bold Outlaw of Barnsdale and Sherwood
  • Robin Hood Project: Texts, Images, Bibliographies and Basic Information, The
  • Science Fiction Research Association
  • Sederi: Yearbook of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies
  • Societas Daemoniaci
  • Society for Medieval Archaeology, The
  • Society for Reformation Research
  • Society for the Public Understanding of the Middle Ages,The (PUMA)
  • Société Internationale des Amis de Merlin (SIAM)
  • Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA)
  • Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Newsletter [blog]
  • Speculative Medievalisms (BLOG)
  • Studies in Medievalism
  • Studies in Medievalism (journal) (Boydel & Brewer)
  • Studies in Medievalism (Kathleen Verduin)
  • Studies in Medievalism: Medievalism (blog)
  • Studies in Popular Culture (journal)
  • This Rough Magic – A Peer Reviewed, Academic, Online Journal Dedicated to the Teaching of Medieval and Renaissance Literature
  • Tolkien Society, The
  • Tolkien Studies (journal) (Project MUSE)
  • Unlocked Wordhoard (blog)
  • Vagantes (conference, graduate level)
  • Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies (journal)
  • Victorian Medievalisms Wiki
  • Victorian Network (online peer-reviewed journal)
  • Wooden O Symposium: Medieval, Renassiance, and Early Modern Studies, The
  • Yearbook of Langland Studies, The (YLS)

Resources for Teaching the Middle Ages

  • Chaucer Studio, The
  • Cloisters Museum and Garden (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY), The
  • Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Once and Future Classroom: Resources for Teaching the Middle Ages in Grades K-12, The
  • Quest for Camelot (Film, 1998): Coloring Book Pages
  • Rap Canterbury Tales, The by Baba Brinkman
  • Sir Gawain & the Green Knight a Paper Doll Set by David Claudon
  • Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (aka SMART)

Wikipedia Links of Interest

  • Arthurian legend, List of films based on (Wikipedia)
  • Dark Ages (Wikipedia)
  • Dark Ages reenactment (Wikipedia)
  • Gothic Revival architecture (Wikipedia)
  • High fantasy (Wikipedia)
  • Hägar the Horrible (Wikipedia)
  • Joan of Arc, Cultural Depictions of (Wikipedia)
  • King Arthur in various media (Wikipedia)
  • Medieval reenactment (Wikipedia)
  • Medieval Times (Wikipedia)
  • Medievalism (Wikipedia)
  • Middle Ages (Wikipedia)
  • Middle Ages in film (Wikipedia)
  • Middle Ages in history (Wikipedia)
  • Mythopoeia (genre) (Wikipedia)
  • Mythopoeic Society, The (Wikipedia)
  • Neo-medievalism (Wikipedia)
  • Norse mythology (Wikipedia)
  • Norse mythology in popular culture (Wikipedia)
  • Prince Valiant (Wikipedia)
  • Renaissance fair (Wikipedia)
  • Robin Hood, List of films and television series featuring (Wikipedia)
  • Society for Creative Anachronism (Wikipedia)
  • Sword and Sorcery (Wikipedia)
  • Tolkien fandom (Wikipedia)
  • Tolkien research (Wikipedia)
  • Tolkien Society, The (Wikipedia)
  • Tolkien Studies (Wikipedia)
  • Tolkien, J. R.R., Reception of (Wikpedia)
  • Viking (Wikipedia)
  • Wizard of Id (Wikipedia)

Becoming Medieval (medieval-themed entertainment and products)

  • Acorn Online: British TV and Movies, Unique Home and Garden Gifts, Collectibles
  • British Library Online Shop
  • British Museum Shop
  • Design Toscano: Dragons and Gargoyles
  • Design Toscano: Medieval and Gothic
  • Excalibur Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Free Gothic Fonts @ FONTSPACE
  • Free Medieval Fonts @ FONTSPACE
  • Gael Song, Celebrating the Celtic Imagination
  • King Arthur Flour
  • King Richard's Faire, Carver, Massachusetts
  • Krewe of King Arthur
  • Lego Castle Collection
  • Lego Knight's Kingdom Collection
  • Lego Vikings Collection
  • Medieval Manor, The (Boston, Massachusetts)
  • Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament
  • MegaBlocks Dragons Collection
  • MegaBlocks Legends of King Arthur Collection
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art Store, The
  • Morgan Library and Museum Shop, The
  • Morgan Shop, The at The Morgan Library and Museum (New York)
  • Museum Replicas Limited
  • Noble Collection, The
  • P22 Type Foundry
  • PlayMobil Knights Collection
  • Schleich The World of Knights Collection
  • Society for Creative Anachronism
  • Sword in the Stone Desktop Stop, The

Comics With Medieval Themes

Effective August 2010: This section has been absorbed by the blogs sites for The Arthur of the Comics Project and The Medieval Comics Project.

Recent films/tv/electronic games with medieval content

Effective 02/03/11: Content in this section has been re-distributed to either the Are You From Camelot? or Medieval Studies at the Movies blogs.

Recent theatrical and performing arts productions with medieval content

  • Broadway.com
  • Lord of the Rings: The Musical, The
  • Magic Tree House: The Musical
  • Monty Python's Spamalot
  • Shrek the Musical
  • TonyAwards.com

Other Links of Interest

  • "Medievalism," search on Amazon.com
  • "Medievalism," search on Google Books
  • "Medievalism," search on WorldCat
  • Adaptation (journal (full-text access)
  • Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture
  • Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture (1900-present)
  • Animation Bibliography, The
  • Animation Journal
  • Animation Magazine
  • Animation Studies (ejournal)
  • Animation World Network
  • Anime Cake (blog)
  • AnimeResearch.com
  • Asian Cinema Studies Society
  • Association for Asian Studies
  • Comics Research & Stuff (Blog)
  • Comics Vine
  • ComicsResearch.org: Comics Scholarship Annotated Bibliographies
  • Early Music (journal) (full-text access)
  • Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television
  • Films for the Humanities and Sciences
  • Filmtracks: Modern Soundtrack Reviews
  • Frames Per Second: The Thinking Fan's Animation Journal
  • Grand Comics Database, The
  • Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture
  • ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies
  • International Journal of Comic Art (IJOCA)
  • International Journal of Comic Art Blog
  • Internet Broadway Database
  • Journal of American Culture, The
  • Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics
  • Journal of Popular Culture, The
  • Journal of Popular Film and Television
  • Library Video Company
  • Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga and the Fan Arts (journal)
  • Music & Letters (journal) (full-text access)
  • Musical Quarterly, The (full-text access)
  • Opera Quarterly, The (full-text access)
  • PopMatters
  • Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
  • SCI FI Wire
  • Screen (journal) (full-text access)
  • Society for Animation Studies
  • Studies in Popular Culture
  • Victorians Institute, The
  • VideoDetective.com (excellent resource for movie trailers)
  • Visual Culture in Britain (journal)
  • Word & Image A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry
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