New Visits to Camelot: Reflecting on the Contemporary Matter
of Britain on Screen (Roundtable)
Session sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of
Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture for the Medieval
& Renaissance Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association
Organizer/Presider: Michael A. Torregrossa (Independent
Scholar)
Guy Ritchie and Michael Bay (Oh My): The Challenges of
Contemporary Visions of Camelot on Screen
Michael A. Torregrossa (Independent Scholar)
Michael A. Torregrossa is a
medievalist whose research interests include adaptation, Arthuriana, comics and
comic art, medievalism, monsters, and wizards. His founder of both The Alliance
for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and The Association for
the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
and serves as Fantastic Area Chair for the Northeast Popular Culture/American
Culture Association.
Othering Pagan Archetypes: Reimaginings of Merlin and Morgan
le Fay
Rachael Warmington (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Rachael Warmington is a doctoral
candidate at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She earned her B.A. in English
from Montclair State University, M.A. in English from Seton Hall University,
and her MFA at City College of New York, City University of New York. Rachael
is also the editor-in-chief of the open source academic journal, Wachung Review. She is currently
focusing on the ways in which early regional and generational variations of
Arthurian legend influence contemporary literary, film and television
adaptations and appropriations of Arthurian works.
Round Table Revival: The
Order: 1886
Carl Sell (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Carl Sell is PhD student at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in all things medieval and Early
Modern, and his studies focus on the Arthurian Legend and modern adaptations of
the legend as well as adaptations of Robin Hood.
