The previous number of Arthuriana, volume 35, number 1, for Spring 2025, is now available and can be read for free as open-access content from Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54796.
This is a special "crossover" issue with the journal's Public Humanities Project, The So What, and guest edited by Jonathan F. Correa Reyes and includes two items that focus on comics (plus some comments in Correa Reyes's introduction).
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Table of Contents
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Medieval Studies as a Public Good
Jonathan F. Correa Reyes
This introductory essay argues that Public Humanities frameworks can help medievalists re-establish our credibility with publics beyond the academy and embrace more collaborative models of knowledge production. Extending our reach beyond academic institutions will help us demonstrate the value of medieval studies as a public good. (JFCR)
From Chile to Camelot: Reception of the Arthurian Arc of Mampato and Ogú
Jonathan F. Correa Reyes and Camila Gutiérrez
This essay analyzes how the Arthurian arc of the Chilean comic Mampato and Ogú challenges the neocolonial rhetorics that cast Chile as a stagnant country, and how it afforded Chileans an opportunity to participate in a global cultural current of Arthurian adaptations. We discuss the meanings that the Arthurian motifs may have acquired during two very different political atmospheres: the years preceding Salvador Allende's democratic election and the onset of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. (JFCR & CG)
Unexpected Swords in the Stone
Brenna Duperron
The Arthurian legends are well-known for their knights-in-shining armour, quests, chivalry, supernatural encounters, and of course, swords being pulled out of stones. The use of the 'sword-in-the-stone' trope allows the 21st century superhero films to play with and reinvent the implications of a 'true right to rule,' and the bodies that are expected to fill those roles. (BD)
