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Meg Roland
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English professor at Marylhurst University, then Concordia University. I teach writing, medieval literature, humanities, maps and literature, and history of the book.
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Monthly Archives: January 2026
Quest
2011: I am on the Eurostar train, streaming from London to Paris in just over two hours. My friend, Padeen, is dozing on a seat nearby. I’ve been awarded a faculty grant to follow the itinerary of the medieval story … Continue reading
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Tagged books, King Arthur, maps, Thomas Malory, travel, travel-writing, via-francigena, writing
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In Malory’s Le Morte Darthur–a challenge is issued and a journey begins
It befell when King Arthur had wedded Queen Guinevere and fulfilled the Round Table, and so after his marvellous knights and he had vanquished the most part of his enemies– . . . then so it befell that the Emperor … Continue reading
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An update on Passionate Geography, January 2026
Friends, if you once subscribed to this seemingly long-lost blog, you will start to see that I am tinkering and revising and hopefully finishing this project. If you would like to unsubscribe, please feel free to do so! If you … Continue reading
a passionate geography
Between perception and a response emerges a zone of feeling, a resonance, a vibration, a powerful affect that inaugurates the passionate geography evoked in Guiliana Bruno’s ‘Atlas of Emotion’ . . . –Iain Chambers, “Maritime Criticism and Theoretical Shipwrecks,” PMLA, … Continue reading
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A Passionate Geography: Romancing King Arthur’s Roman War 