Robin Hood Spotlight

Speakers at the Third Biennial Robin Hood Conference (2001)

Information Preserved by Allen W. Wright

Key graphic from the 2001 Robin Hood Conference

Introduction

After the 2001 Robin Hood conference at the University of Western Ontario shut down their website, I preserved a copy on my website.

In 2026, I've updated the pages to conform with the mobile-friendly look of the rest of my site.

Please note the information from the Conference Website might not match the true event.

Click here the main page on the Third Biennial Robin Hood Conference.

Plenary Speakers

Stephanie Barczewski (Clemson University), "Images of Robin Hood in Nineteenth-Century Britain"

Douglas Gray (Oxford University), "Everybody's Robin Hood"

Kevin Harty (La Salle University), "Unreal 'reel' Robin Hoods"

Workshop Sessions

Alan T. Gaylord (Dartmouth College) and Lorraine Stock (University of Houston, Texas): "Robin Hood and Chaucer"

Evelyn Perry (Framingham State College): "Creative Writers and Robin Hood"

Linda Troost (Washington and Jefferson College), "Robin Hood Ballads in Performance"

Allen Wright (Toronto): "Robin Hood in Canada"

Papers

David Bentley (UWO), "Willie Longstaff: Bliss Carmen's Self-Construction as Merry Man"

Laura Blunk (Cuyahqoga Community College), "Spreading the Tales: North American Fan Fiction and the Transmission of Robin Hood Materials through Popular Culture in the Late Twentieth Century"

Chris Chism (Rutgers University), "Bringing out the Beast in Me: Masters and Servants in Robin Hood and the Monk and Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne"

Peter Christensen (Cardinal Stritch University), "Howard Pyle and Robin Hood"

Michael Collins (University of Singapore), " Ayn Rand's Merry Men"

Nathalie Cooke (McGill University), "Robin Hood Flour: The Bandit as Cooking Icon"

Michael A. Cramer (City University of New York Graduate Center), "Reconstructing Robin Hood: An Experiment in Transgressive Mayhem"

Laurence de Looze (UWO), "The Outlaw Poet, the Poet Outlaw: The Case of Gisla Saga"

Francis Gingras (UWO), "Le prenom Robin et sa fortune en France aux XIIe et XIIIe siecles"

Mica Gould (Purdue University), "Social Protest and Narrative Technique in Pritchard's Twm Shon Catty"

Richard Green (UWO), "The Hermit and the Outlaw: New Evidence for Robin Hood's Death"

David Hepworth (University of Nottingham), "Bandits of Barnsdale: The Real 13th and 14th Century Robbers"

Linda Hutjens (University of Toronto), "The Trail-Staff Shoemakers of Bradford in George a Geene, the Pinner of Wakefield (play, c.1590)"

Alexander Kaufman (Purdue University), "Histories of Contexts: Argument and Ideology in A Gest of Robin Hood"

Sherron Lux (University of Houston, Texas), "Picturing Marion: The Maid Marion Illustrations in Juvenile Fiction"

Tom Hahn (University of Rochester), "Get a Life: Fiction, History, and Robin Hood"

Stephen Knight (Cardiff University), "The Sadness of the Shepherd: Ben Jonson and Robin Hood"

David Lampe (Buffalo State College), "My Hood or Yours: Robin Hood in American and Canadian Narratives"

John Marshall (University of Bristol) and Sally-Beth MacLean (University of Toronto), "A proper place for a pleasant pastime: Copland's Robin Hood plays"

Sara Morrison (UWO), "Oliver Cromwell, a Mid-Seventeenth-Century Robin Hood? Cromwell, the Royal Forests, and Sherwood"

Thomas H. Ohlgren (Purdue University), "The Robin Hood Manuscripts"

Helen Phillips (University of Liverpool), "Robin and the Serfs: Henry Gilbert's Robin Hood (1912)"

Tom Sea (UWO), "Joss Fritz, Superpeasant"

Marcus Smith (Loyola University, New Orleans), "Robin Hood and the New World Order"

Paula Stemp (UWO), "Wayland the Smith: Outcast and Avenger"

Jonathan Stover (UWO), "The Archer Explodes: Green Arrow, Social(ist) Justice, and the Reinvention of the Playboy Comic Book Adventurer,1970-1986"

Julian Wasserman and Marcus Smith (Loyola University, New Orleans), "Rally Round the Pole Boys: Thomas Morton, the Puritans and the Image of Robin Hood in America"

Allen Wright (Toronto), "The Sheriff of Nottingham: Evil Supervillain or Just Misunderstood?"

Where to go from here:

THE THIRD BIENNIAL ROBIN HOOD CONFERENCE - the main index page
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME - A list of all the events at the conference and the times they occurred
PHOTO GALLERY - When I first preserved the conference website I added a collection of photos from it
IARHS - THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ROBIN HOOD STUDIES - An overview of the group who sponsor this and other conferences
A LITTLE GEST OF ROBIN HOOD BY BOB FRANK - A look at the modern adaptation of the Gest first performed at this conference
THE SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM: EVIL SUPERVILLAIN OR JUST MISUNDERSTOOD? - The paper I delivered at the conference

If you enjoyed this Spotlight, check out the following:

THE FIRST ROBIN HOOD CONFERENCE (ROCHESTER, 1997) and ROBIN HOOD IN POPULAR CULTURE EDITED BY THOMAS HAHN - A look at the first of the biennial conferences for Robin Hood scholars and the proceedings volume that emerged from it
THE SECOND ROBIN HOOD CONFERENCE (NOTTINGHAM, 1999) - The Conference Programme for this scholarly event which conference caused controversy by a one sentence joke about Robin Hood being gay
THE FOURTH ROBIN HOOD CONFERENCE (YORK, UK 2003) - A look at the events of the second conference to be held in the UK
THE HIDDEN GROVE - A section of my site that I originally created for charity which features my 2001, 2003 and 2005 conference papers along with more in-depth articles on Robin Hood and related topics