T. H. White (1906–1964)

7PM MONDAY, MAY 6 The Mother of Ruin: Queen Morgause in the Arthurian Legends Dr. Diane Facinelli, Honors Faculty Fellow and Lecturer at Barrett Honors College at ASU, hosts the next talk in the "Fearless Females: The Audacious and Feisty Women of the Middle Ages" series from the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  Although a minor character in the Arthurian legend, Morgause's impact on Arthur and the court of Camelot is pivotal. The half-sister of Arthur, sister of Morgan le Fay, wife of King Lot of Orkney and mother of Gawain and Mordred, she has fulfilled and even embraced the role of "Mother of Ruin." Today, she enjoys expanded status as a powerful force for destruction and evil in numerous modern retellings of her brief role in Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER DR. DIANE FACINELLI was the first recipient of ASU's Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Student Mentoring and has been a finalist for the Professor of the Year Award. She earned her Ph.D. from ASU in English with an emphasis on Medieval Literature and has twice taught a course on the The Arthurian Legend in History, Literature, and Art for the ACMRS summer program at the University of Cambridge.

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