UPDATE Revisioning Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Essays on David Lowery's The Green Knight (proposals by 1/2/2026)

Revisioning Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Essays on David Lowery's The Green Knight

deadline for submissions:
January 2, 2026

full name / name of organization:
Drew Maxwell and Melissa Crofton

contact email:
dmaxwell@trentu.ca

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/11/revisioning-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-essays-on-david-lowerys-the-green-knight


For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 film adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. We have a contract with Boydell and Brewer and confirmed contributors; however, we have lost a few contributors and are looking for one or two more chapters for the book. We are particularly looking for chapters that discuss race and/or toxic masculinity in the poem and film, or possibly other adaptations of the poem (particularly film adaptations other than Lowery’s The Green Knight).



Please send a 250-word proposal to Dr. Melissa Crofton and Dr. Drew Maxwell to TheGreenKnightCasebook@gmail.com by January 2, 2026. Early abstract submissions are welcomed/encouraged. Due to contract agreements with Boydell and Brewer, we have a tight deadline in place, and we will need finished chapters by the spring of 2026.


Last updated November 14, 2025

Recent Collection of Essays on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Green Knight

Another recent publication on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and David Lowery's recent adaptation, The Green Knight. 

I'll start with the full citation. Book details and order information are available from the publisher at https://presses-universitaires.parisnanterre.fr/index.php/produit/unveiling-the-green-knight/. 

Fruoco, Jonathan, editor. Unveiling the Green Knight. Nanterre, France: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2024. Intercalaires: agrégation d’anglais. Print. 978-2-84016-546-0. [x2

Description:

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of the oldest tales in English literature. Haunted by the passage of time, this story takes us to the frontier between tradition and innovation, between a romanticized Arthurian chivalric past and its poetic reinterpretation in the English language.

Such distinctions are further troubled in David Lowery’s film adaptation, The Green Knight, which offers a contemporary and highly stylized vision of the themes in the medieval poem. This volume explores the myriad facets of the Gawain legend through a comparative analysis of the poem and the film. Authors examine these works’ themes, motifs, and narrative techniques, while shedding light on their historical and cultural resonances. Raising issues such as self-discovery, gender politics, the relationship to nature, and questions of morality and ethics, this volume of essays provides new perspectives on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’s continuing relevance across the centuries.

Contents:

Introduction. From Arthurian Legend to Modern Cinema: Setting the Stage for The Green Knight. 9-15.

Jonathan Fruoco

Exploring Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

An introduction to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 19-43.

Helen Cooper

“Of sum auenturus þyng an vncouþe tale”: Style, Sources and Analogues of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 45-80.

Anne Marie D’Arcy

A Manuscript-Oriented Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 81-95.

Madeleine S. Killacky

The Pentangle in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. 97-112. 

Shawn Phillip Cooper

A New Perspective on an Old Tale: David Lowery’s Green Knight

Masculinity, Monstrosity, and the Uncanny in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021). 115-139.

Georgina Anderson

The Green Knight or The Imagination of a Cyclic Time. 141-154.

Justine Breton

Amplifying Gawain’s Identity Crisis in The Green Knight. 155-171.

Danko Kamčevski

Translatio operum? Adaptation as Creative Destruction in David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021). 173-198.

Cyril Besson

Bibliography

CFP Revisioning Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Casebook on David Lowery's The Green Knight (4/30/2025)

Revisioning Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Casebook on David Lowery's The Green Knight.

deadline for submissions:
April 30, 2025

full name / name of organization:
Melissa Crofton/Florida Tech

contact email:
TheGreenKnightCasebook@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/08/revisioning-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-a-casebook-on-david-lowerys-the-green. 



For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth-century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. The editors of this book proposal seek essays that explore some of the compelling changes Lowery makes to the base text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and what we can learn about the importance—or dangers—of retelling popular stories in new and inventive ways.



Current contributors for this project include medievalists, but we are also interested in hearing from individuals who specialize in film studies and popular culture. Please send a 250-word proposal to Dr. Melissa Crofton and Dr. Drew Maxwell to TheGreenKnightCasebook@gmail.com by April 30, 2025.


Last updated January 10, 2025