GOOGLE Puts Him First

If you go to the Google search box and types in these words, "Robin Hood" and "expert" the first info you see is this: Kevin Harty, chair of our English Dept. and one of the world's leading scholars on film versions of Robin Hood (and other medival figures, such as Joan of Arc). On May 14 a new "Robin Hood" starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchet opens and the media have already started asking for sources about Robin Hood, such as why the character is do enduring. Harty has already been interviewed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer on the topic and I hope to keep him busy up to and after the film's release. (BTW, the Plain Dealer reporter told me she was going to the library to get Dr. Harty's book, "The Reel Middle Ages: American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Asian Films about Medieval Europe.")

Dr. Harty has also presented papers at international conferences on film or medieval studies in Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Utrecht, Cardiff, Bangor, Leeds, Nottingham, London (Ontario), Vancouver, and London (England).