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  • Creative Project Revamp

    It has been a long time since this website has posted new content; as a PhD researcher working on my dissertation, I simply hadn’t the time or energy for additional writing projects for quite some time. However, I am back and ready to engage with these ideas, characters, themes, motifs, medievalisms and more! I will…

  • Strange New Worlds S1E7 “The Serene Squall”

    Strange New Worlds S1E7 “The Serene Squall”

    The caveat to this post is this-I am newly come to the Star Trek world. While I recognize the major names and characters, I had only seen a handful of the films and a few episodes of the series’ over the years. I started with Discovery, and am currently watching Strange New Worlds. My Spock…

  • The Fair Unknown

    Just as in modern media, medieval literature was comprised of motifs and tropes, recognizable patterns that allowed for interpretation and analysis. “The Fair Unknown” began as an individual character in the late 12th or early 13th century French poem Le Bel Inconnu by Renaut de Beaujeu. In this poem the as-yet unknown Sir Gingalain has…

  • Film Fridays-Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail hit theaters in 1975. Monty Python, already an established comedy troupe comprised of members Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin, represented an innovative form of comedic story telling. The Holy Grail was the troupes first ‘proper’ turn to feature length films (the…

  • Finding the Medieval

    When I returned to higher education in my late 20’s, I was not anticipating a pivot into the world of medieval studies. It was my hope, after completing a two year degree in Library and Info Tech, that I would go to University only as a means to complete a BA, focusing instead on the…