Beowulf at NeMLA 2024

Beowulfs Beyond Beowulf: Transformations of Beowulf in Popular Culture

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association 

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Carl Sell, Benjamin Hoover, and Richard Fahey

55th NeMLA Convention, Boston, MA, 7-10 March 2024

Updated 3/8/2024

Saturday

Mar 9 Track 16

01:15-02:45

16.29 Beowulfs Beyond Beowulf: Transformations of Beowulf in Popular Culture (Part 1)

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

Chair: Richard Fahey, University of Notre Dame

Location: Dalton B (Media Equipped)

British & Cultural Studies and Media Studies

"Performing Beowulf" Chris Vinsonhaler, City University of New York (BMCC) [WITHDRAWN]

"A 'Thorn and Steel Grendel': Attacking the Mead Hall in The Hyperion Cantos" Benjamin Yusen, Indiana University-Bloomington

"Beowulf Transformed is Beowulf Preserved What’s Old is New Again The Recovery of its Lost Story" James the Howard of Buckingham, Independent Scholar

Saturday

Mar 9 Track 17

03:00-04:30

17.29 Beowulfs Beyond Beowulf: Transformations of Beowulf in Popular Culture (Part 2)

Chair: Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

Location: Dalton B (Media Equipped)

British & Cultural Studies and Media Studies

"Authenticity and the Genre of Historical Fiction in Beowulf Adaptations for Young Readers" Melissa Filbeck, Texas A&M University

"Beowulf, Exile, and Endless Sword Fights" Maureen Gokey, Russell Sage College

"Beowulf after Beowulf: Continuations of the Old English Epic in Popular Culture" Michael Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

"Contemporary Beowulfs: Translation and Representation" Richard Fahey, University of Notre Dame