Medieval + Monsters in Comics
Online Sponsored Session Proposed for Medieval + Monsters: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM), Mid-America Medieval Association (MAMA), Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) Joint Conference with The Newberry Library
Hosted at Dominican University & the Newberry Library
17-18 October 2025
The Medieval Comics Project and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association seek proposals of 250 words for a proposed online panel devoted to the theme of the medieval and the monstrous in sequential art, comics, manga, and related media.
Topics might include:
- Adaptations of medieval monsters in modern comics/manga/related media
- Monsters in sequential art of the medieval era
- Monsters in marginalia in medieval manuscripts (akin to modern panel comics)
- New monsters in comics/manga/related media set in the medieval era
- The use of horror in comics/manga/related media set in the medieval era
- The use of monstrosity to represent issues of class/gender/race in comic/manga versions of the Middle Ages
Please send submissions (250-word proposal plus a short biographical statement) to the session organizers (Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Benjamin H. Hoover) at Comics.Get.Medieval@gmail.com by 15 March 2025.
For more information on the Medieval Comics Project, please see our blog at https://medieval-comics-project.blogspot.com/.
For more information on the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association, please see our blog at https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/.
Further details on the conference itself can be accessed at https://www.dom.edu/medieval-monsters-conference.
