[On leave, 2009-2010] |
Professor of English
Research and teaching interests
Medieval literature; feminist theory
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1982
M.Phil., Columbia University, 1976
M.A., Columbia University, 1975
B.A., Newnham College, Cambridge University, 1978
B.A., Barnard College, 1973
Publications
Books
Co-ed. with Stephen Shepherd, Piers Plowman: A Norton Critical Edition of the B-Text. Norton, 2006
Co-ed. with Christine Rose, Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Palgrave, 2001
Early English Devotional Prose and the Female Audience. Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1990
Co-ed. with C. David Benson, Chaucer's Religious Tales. Boydell and Brewer, 1990; rpt. 1996
Essays
"Julian of Norwich's 'Modernist Style' and the Creation of Audience" Cambridge Companion to Julian of Norwich. Ed Liz McAvoy. D.S. Brewer, 2008,139-153
"Practicing Women: The Matter of Women in Middle English Literature" Literature/Compass 5 (April 2008): 1-38
"Medieval Feminism in Middle English Studies: A Retrospective." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 26 (2007): 67-80
"Twenty Years of Medieval Feminist Scholarship." Medieval Feminist Forum 42 (Winter 2006):14-25
“Souls that Matter: The Gendering of the Soul in Piers Plowman.” Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: A Festschrift in Honor of Elizabeth Kirk. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 165-86
“Modern Chaucer.” The Oxford Guide to Chaucer. Ed. Steve Ellis. Oxford Univ. Press, 2005, 355-69
“Raptus and the Poetics of Married Love in Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale and James I’s Kingis Quair.” Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of R.W. Hanning. Ed. Sandra Prior and Robert Stein. Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2005, 303-23.
“Marriage, Mutual Consent ,and Female Agency in Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘The Knight ’s Tale,’ ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale,’ and ‘The Franklin’s Tale.’ Drama, Narrative, and Poetry in the Canterbury Tales. Ed. Wendy Harding. PUM (Presses universitaires du mirail), 2003, 175-95
"This Living Hand: Thirteenth-Century Female Literacy, Materialist Immanence and the Female Reader of the Ancrene Wisse." Speculum 78 (2003): 1-36
"This Living Hand": Thirteenth-Century Female Literacy and the Female Reader of Ancresse Wisse." A Companion to the Ancrene Wisse. Ed. Yoko Wada. Boydell and Brewer, 2003
"Non-Violent Christianity and the Strangeness of Female Power in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Man of Law's Tale'." Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages. Ed. Sharon Farmer and Carol Pasternack. University of Minnesota Press, 2002, 322-52
"'Savoring Science': The Medieval Anchoress Reads the Ancrene Wisse." A Companion to the Ancrene Wisse. Ed. Yoko Wada. Boydell and Brewer, 2002
"Public Bodies and Psychic Domains: Rape and Female Subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde." Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Co-ed. Elizabeth Robertson and Christine Rose. Palgrave, 2001, 281-310
"The Elvyssh Power of Constance: Christian Feminism in the Man of Law's Tale." Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 23 (Fall 2001). Reprinted in Modern Critical Views (Facts on File, Spring 2007)
"Measurement and the Feminine in Langland's Piers Plowman." New Critical Approaches to Langland's "Piers Plowman." Ed. Katherine Hewett-Smith. Garland, 2000
"Women in Medieval English Literature," "The Ancrene Wisse," "The Katherine Group." Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Tess Tavormina. Garland, 1998
"Geoffrey Chaucer." The Reader's Guide to Literary Criticism. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996
"Comprehending Rape in Medieval England." Medieval Feminist Newsletter 21 (Spring 1996): 13-15
"Historicizing Literacy: New Directions in Anglo-Saxon Criticism." Review 17 (1995): 211-24
"Medieval Subjectivity and the Church: A Modest Proposal for Future Research." Aestel 3 (1995): 61-80
With A. S. G. Edwards, "A Proposed Emendation of The Kingis Quair Line 402." Notes and Queries n.s. 41, (Sept. 1994).
"Medieval Medical Views of Women and Female Spirituality." Feminist Approaches to the Body in the Middle Ages. Ed. Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanberry. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1993
"Medieval Feminism and the Academy." Medieval Feminist Newsletter (Fall 1992)
"The Corporeality of Female Sanctity in the 'Life of St. Margaret.'" Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe. Ed. Timea Szell and Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski . Cornell Univ. Press, 1991
"Aspects of Female Piety in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale." Chaucer's Religious Tales. Ed. Elizabeth Robertson and C. David Benson. Boydell and Brewer Press, 1990, 145-60
"An Anchorhold of Her Own: Female Anchoritic Literature in Thirteenth-Century England." Equally in God's Image. Ed. Julia Holloway. Peter Lang, 1990, 170-83
"The Rule of the Body: the Feminine Spirituality of the Ancrene Wisse." Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Texts: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism. Ed. Sheila Fisher and Janet Halley. Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1989, 109-34.
"Speaking from the Place of the Other: Identity and Narrative Form in the Life and Art of Zelda Fitzgerald." Denver Quarterly (Dec. 1984), 130- 39
With Michael Bell, "The sa inn pattern: A Study in Literary Idiom in Old Norse and Anglo-Saxon" in Jenseits von index und konkordanz. Ed. H. Fix. Peter Lang, 1983, 81-117.
With Dana Cuff, "Words and Images: The Alchemy of Communication." Journal of Architectural Education. 36, 2 (Winter, 1983), 8-15.
Selected honors and awards
Presidential Teaching Scholar Award, University of Colorado, 2008
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 2004-2005
Student Office of Alumni Relations Teaching Award, 2001
American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship, 1998
Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 1998
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Chaucer/Langland Institute , 1995
Elizabeth C. Wiegers Faculty Fellowship, CU Boulder, 1993
Boulder Faculty Assembly Teaching Excellence Award, 1993
Colorado Seminars in Literature Book Award for Early English Devotional Prose, 1991
Editorial positions
Founding editor of The Medieval Feminist Newsletter
Current projects
Medieval English Religious Prose for Women: An Edition of "The Katherine Group." Medieval Institute Publications, forthcoming
Souls that Matter: Representations of the Soul in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (book)
Chaucerian Consent: Women, Religion, and Subjection in Late Medieval England (book)
Co-ed with Jennifer Jahner, From the Buddha's Tooth to St. Brigit's Head: Sacred and Devotional Objects East/West (book)
Entry on "The Squire's Tale" for the Chaucer Encyclopedia
“Women and Gender in Piers Plowman” (article)
"Julian's Unmediated Vision" (article)
"Faith has Feet: Langland's Alliterative Style," for Hoyt Duggan Festschrift (article)
"Monastic, Scholastic, and Women's Reading in Late Medieval England" (article)