Professor for the Department of English
Hoyt Hall 234, aronstei@uwyo.edu
Biography
Susan Aronstein joined the UW English Department in 1987. She is the author of Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia (Palgrave, 2005) and British Arthurian Narrative (University of Florida, 2012) as well the co-editor (with Tison Pugh) of Disney’s Middle Ages: A Fairy Tale and Fantasy Past (Palgrave, 2012). Her articles on medieval Arthurian romance, medieval film, medievalism, and Disney have appeared in numerous books and journals. Aronstein teaches courses in medieval literature, Arthurian Legend, Disney, and film and popular culture.
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University
M.Sc., Edinburgh University
B.A., Seattle Pacific University
Recent and Upcoming Courses
The Disney Discourse
Citizen Hollywood
Steven Spielberg and America
King Arthur: Medieval to Modern
Religion and Fantasy
Selected Publications/Awards
Aronstein, Susan and Peter Parolin. “The Play’s the Thing:” The Cinematic Fortunes of Chaucer and Shakespeare.” In Chaucer on Screen: Absence, Presence and Adapting the Canterbury Tales Eds. Kathleen Kelly and Tison Pugh. Ohio State University Press. 2016: 33-44.
Aronstein Susan, and Jason Thompson. “Coding the Grail: Ready Player One’s Arthurian Mash-up.” Arthuriana 25:4 (2015): 51-65
Aronstein, Susan and Laurie Finke. “Conjuring the Ghosts of Camelot: Tintagel and the Medievalism of Heritage Tourism.” In Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture. Ed. Gail Ashton. Bloomsbury/Continuum. 2015: 200-212
University of Wyoming, Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award
John P. Ellbogen Award for Meritorious Classroom Teaching
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