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"Robin Hood and the Canon"MLA Boston, January 3-6, 2013contact email:akaufman@aum.edu“Robin Hood and the Canon," MLA Boston, January 3-6, 2013What is the place and status of the Robin Hood texts and tradition in  the canon? The Robin Hood literary texts are decidedly varied in terms  of genre and form (historical writings, ballads, broadsides, dramas,  novellas, and novels, for example), and the tradition stretches from the  medieval period to the present. While such canonical writers as William  Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Keats, and Sir Walter Scott, among  others, have written about the outlaw, Robin Hood’s presence within the  canon is, for many, questionable. While Arthur and the Matter of Britain  are fixtures within the canon (and like Robin Hood  associated with  aspects of popular culture), Robin Hood and the Matter of the Greenwood  are in many ways still outside of literary and cultural officialdom –  why?This panel seeks papers that examine the reasons behind the status of  the Robin Hood tradition in the canon. Papers that address the  interdisciplinary nature of the tradition as it relates to canonicity  are encouraged.Please send 300-word abstracts to Alexander L. Kaufman (akaufman@aum.edu) by March 15, 2012.