NOTES:
- Due to lack of submissions, the Game Jam has been canceled.
- The conference prize winners will be announced sometime in late May or early June.
REMINDER:
These sessions are password-protected!
Exile and Grief
- An Analysis of Wulf and Eadwacer
Ryan Spalding (Kent State University) - Analyzing The Wanderer: Grief, Religion, Culture
Emily Stephens (Kent State University) - The Wanderer: An Analysis of Modern Representation of the Classic Old English Elegy
Ryan McKnight (Kent State University) - Female Expressions of Grief from the Exeter Book’s Elegies to Victorian Poetry
Natalie Fitts (Georgia Southern University)
Modern Media Medievalism
- Swords, Sabers, and Dragons: Weaponry Personification in Medieval and Popular Culture
Ariana Taylor-Williams (Georgia Southern University) - Translating Medieval Vikings: Texts, Adaptations, and Modern Media
Yasmin Lewis (Georgia Southern University) - The Heroic Code & Ironman
Mallory Dent (Georgia Southern University) - Film Adaptations of Beowulf
Alisha Wolfgang (Kent State University)
War and Peace: Warriors, Knights, Lords, and Kings
- The Timeless Tale of Beowulf
Zoe Credico (Kent State University) - How Game of Thrones changes the medieval concept of “The King’s Peace
Romero Paloma (Universidad de Cantabria) - The Death of Arthur: A Scholarly Analysis on Wace’s Interpretations, the Relevance of His Work in It’s Era of Origin, and the Impact It Has on Literature throughout the Ages
Hayley Nieves (Kent State University) - Now and Then: Battlespaces of the U.K.
William Daughtry (Georgia Southern University)
The Games People Play
- The Miller’s Tale: A Deeper Look into What Makes It a Fabliau, How Geoffrey Chaucer Produced the Miller’s Tale, and What It Could Represent in a Modern and Historical View
Dylan Acierno (Kent State University) - Women in Medieval Literature and Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath”
Bambi Vornheder (Kent State University) - Beyond the Monster: Individuation and Female Agency through the Loathly Lady
Motif
Michaela Rich (Kent State University) - Charms as a Speech Act
Robin Eaken (Kent State University) - Riddles and Charms Escape Room
Kiersten Grantz (Kent State University)
Mystical/Magical Creatures
- Elves and Fae: A History Throughout Literature
Sarah Brodmann (Georgia Southern University) - Ravens, Symbolism and Medievalism
McKenzi Jackson (Georgia Southern University) - William and the Werewolf: A Scholarly Analysis of Character Development
Anna Miller (Kent State University) - William and the Werewolf: An Exploration of Identity in Medieval Literature
Robin Webb (Kent State University)
Sins and Sinning
- The Seven Deadly Sins
Garrett Barber (Georgia Southern University) - The Seven Deadly Sins in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Anna Meyers (Georgia Southern University) - Soteriology in Everyman and Dr. Faustus
Chandler Potter (Georgia Southern University) - The Seven Deadly Sins
Kenneth Clinton (Georgia Southern University)
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