Michael Salda

Dr. Michael Norman Salda (born 1957), Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, is notable for his work on Arthurian animation and the Cinderella Project.

Background

Michael Salda received his A.B., A.M, and Ph.D at the University of Chicago. He then moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi in late 1991 when he started teaching at the University of Southern Mississippi. His interests include Medieval and Renaissance English and French literature, King Arthur, history of the book, film, animation, online learning.

The Cinderella Project

The Cinderella Project is a text and image archive containing a dozen English versions of the fairy tale. [http://www.usm.edu/english/fairytales/cinderella/cinderella.html] The transcriptions, HTML coding, and digital images were prepared by Michael N. Salda and a group of 23 graduate English students enrolled in a course on Bibliography and Methods of Research. he location of the resources was the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection. After creating The Cinderella Project, Michael Salda went on to create similar projects such as Jack and the Beanstalk/Jack the Giant-Killer Project [http://www.usm.edu/english/fairytales/jack/jackhome.html] and The Little Red Riding Hood Project [http://www.usm.edu/english/fairytales/lrrh/lrrhhome.htm] .

Arthurian animation

Michael Salda has complied a list of animated shows or movies that have dealt with King Arthur and his court. He's discussed many of these animated works in greater detail in three articles: "'What's Up, Duke?' A Brief History of Arthurian Animation," in King Arthur on Film: New Essays on Arthurian Cinema, ed. Kevin J. Harty (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999), "Arthurian Animation at Century's End," in King Arthur and Popular Culture, ed. Elizabeth Sklar and Donald Hoffman (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002), and the forthcoming "The Earliest Arthurian Animation: 'Bosko's Knight-Mare' (1933) and King Arthur's Knights (1941)," in The Reel World of King Arthur: Essays about the Arthurian Legend on Film and Television, ed. Michael A. Torregrossa and Daniela Şoeva (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006). [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/ACPBIBS/toonbib.htm]

Other publications

La Bibliothèque de François Ier au Château de Blois, The Malory Debate: Essays on the Texts of Le Morte Darthur (co-edited), five volumes of Chaucer Yearbook (co-edited); articles that include "When Women Learn to Write in Old French Prose Romance," "'What's Up, Duke?' A Brief History of Arthurian Animation," "William Faulkner's Arthurian Tale: Mayday," "Pages from History: The Medieval Palace of Westminster as a Source for the Dreamer’s Chamber in the Book of the Duchess," and "Reconsidering Vinaver's Sources for Malory's 'Tristram'.

External links

* [http://www.usm.edu/english/fairytales/cinderella/cinderella.html The Cinderella Project]
* [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/ACPBIBS/toonbib.htm Arthurian Animation by Michael Salda]
* [http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Michael_N_Salda-author.html?isrc=b-compare-author Books by or edited by Michael Salda]
* [http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Edegrum/ de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection - The University of Southern Mississippi Libraries]