The editors of The Year’s Work in Medievalism are delighted to announce the publication of volume 35.36 (2020-2021), a double issue. YWiM is the ISSM’s own peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal. The new volume volume represents work completed during the COVID-19 lockdown years, and so YWiM 35.36 contains: a pedagogy cluster; articles that discuss form, media, and medievalism; and a posthumous article by Alicia McKenzie (1976-2022), which we hope serves as a lasting memorial to her life and work.
We encourage you to visit https://ywim.net/ to read and enjoy innovative medievalism scholarship. We hope that this Table of Contents serves as a thrilling preview of the volume:
Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching Medieval Studies with Medievalism and Baseball, M.J. Toswell, pp. 1-10
When the Digital Generation Isn’t: Pivoting Online with Traditional Campus Students, Melissa Ridley Elmes, pp. 11-26
Pedagogical Practices for Teaching through Crisis, Heather Blatt, pp. 27-33
Sister Warriors: Medievalism and Tropes of Women’s Empowerment in Netflix’s Warrior Nun, Yvonne Seale, pp. 34-49
The Disarticulation of Christendom: Dismemberment and Decapitation in Medieval Films, Caitlin G. Watt, pp. 50-58
“What Would Buffy Do?”: Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s “Storyteller” and the Hagiographic Genre, Meaghan Allen, pp. 59-70
Reading the “human braille”: Discourses of Ableism and Medievalism in the Reburial of Richard III, Rowan Wilson, pp. 71-82
“Messer Papero e il Ghibellin Fuggiasco:” Cultural Constraints on (Neo)medievalism's Adaptability, Karl Fugelso, pp. 83-94
Cynocéphales: (Ab)Uses of a Medieval Trope in Several French Texts of the Modern Era, Bryant White, pp. 95-111
Feminist Knights, Questions of Power, and Utopian Societies: Medievalism Today in Cyril Pedrosa and Roxanne Moreil’s L'Âge d’Or, Elisabeth Herbst Buzay, pp. 112-124
Rubeus Hagrid: The Resolution of Contraries, Part 1: Giant, Wild Man, and Saint, Natalie Goodison, pp. 125-135
Medievalism, Fakelore, and the Commodification of Story-Telling in the Afterlives of Harry Potter, Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand and Olga V. Trokhimenko, pp. 136-148
How (Not) to Design a Progressive Viking: “Desynchronized” Morality in Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, In Memorium Alicia McKenzie (1976-2022), pp. 149-154
Be well,
Valerie Johnson and Renée Ward
