This roundtable will include the following short presentations and discussion:
Usurping an Ideology: Medievalism and White Supremacy” Diana Vecchio
“Challenging and Perpetuating Racism: Duality in Medievalisms” Rachael Warmington
“Send Her Back” Dena Arguelles
“Black ink on the White Page: Teaching Race in Medieval Studies” Angela Weisl
About the presentersDiana Vecchio
Diana Vecchio is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Widener University in Chester, PA. Her primary area of research is knightly codes in Arthurian literature.
Rachael Kathleen Warmington
Rachael Warmington is an instructor at Seton Hall University. She earned her English B.A. from Montclair State University, English M.A. from Seton Hall University, her MFA at CUNY, City College of New York and is ABD at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She focuses on themes of Arthurian Legend and how these themes create the space that challenges oppression in its various forms, but have also been used to perpetuate racism, sexism and religious intolerance.
Angela Jane Weisl
Angela Jane Weisl is professor of English at Seton Hall University. She is the author of The Persistence of Medievalism: Narrative Adventures in Contemporary Culture (Palgrave 2003) and Conquering the Reign of Femeny: Gender and Genre in Chaucer’s Romance (D. S. Brewer 1999), and the co-author, with Tison Pugh, of Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present (Routledge 2012). She has co-edited several volumes of work on medieval subjects and has published widely in collections on both medieval an medievalism topics.