M. A. Jacobs 6303 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 [email protected]
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Department of Scandinavian University of California M. A. Jacobs 6303 Dwinelle Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 [email protected] Education Ph. D. in Scandinavian and Medieval Studies (joint degree), 2014 Dissertation:“'A Most Splendid Tree': Hákon Hákonarson and the Norwegian Royal Court as a Site of Literary Production” University of California, Berkeley M. A. in Medieval Studies, 2007 Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto B. A. (honors) in History and French, Magna cum laude, 2005 Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio) Teaching Experience present Lecturer, Department of Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley Scandinavian 123: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia Reading and Composition B: “Fantastic Voyages” 2009- Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Scandinavian, University of California, 2014 Berkeley Reading & Composition A: “Fantastic Voyages,” “Heroes and Legends in Old Norse Literature,” “Vikings in Love: Gender, Relationships and Gender Relations in Old Norse Literature” Reading & Composition B: “Romance in the North,” “Fantastic Voyages,” “Heroes and Legends in Old Norse Literature,” “Outlaws of Scandinavia and England” 2011 & Graduate Student Reader, Department of Scandinavian, University of California, 2013 Berkeley Scandinavian 160: Scandinavian Myth and Religion 2005- English-Language Teaching Assistant, Lycée Emiland Gauthey, Chalon-sur-Saône, 2006 France Publications “Hon stóð ok starði: Vision, Love, and Gender in Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu” Scandinavian Studies 86.2 (2014): 148-68 “'Undir ilmöndum laufum ok nýsprungnum blómstrum': Sensual Pleasure in Old Norse Arthurian Romance” forthcoming 2014, Arthur of the North: Histories, Emotions, and Imaginations (Special issue of Scandinavian Studies) “The Life of Saint Petronilla: A Study of her legend with an edition of her life from the South English Legendary” (with Helen Marshall and Teresa Russo, University of Toronto; forthcoming) Conference Lectures 2014 “The King's Mirror and the Court of Norway.” Yale Conference on Baltic and Scandinavian Studies. New Haven, Connecticut. 14 March. 2013 “'Undir ilmöndum laufum ok nýsprungnum blómstrum': Sensual Pleasure in Old Norse Arthurian Romance.” Arthur of the North. Oslo, Norway. 24 May. “The Norwegian Court of Romance and the Icelandic Imagination.” Annual Meeting for the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. San Francisco, California. 3 May. 2012 “Icelandic Poets and Norwegian Kingship: The Case of Hákon Hákonarson.” 15th International Saga Conference. Aarhus, Denmark. 7 August. “An Icelandic Poet at King Hákon's Court.” Annual Meeting for the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Salt Lake City, Utah. 5 May. 2011 “Out of Silence, Vision: Helga's Gazing in Gunnlaug's Saga.” 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, Michigan. 14 May. “Mary and the Skalds.” Annual Meeting for the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Chicago, Illinois. 29 April. 2010 “Looking Back: Helga's Gazing in Gunnlaug's Saga.” Annual Meeting for the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. Seattle, Washington. 23 April. Awards & Fellowships 2013 NORTANA (Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America) Travel Grant UC Berkeley Conference Travel Grant 2012 Aurora Borealis Prize in Arts and Humanities, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study for the paper “Mary and the Skalds,” delivered at the 2011 Annual Meeting for the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Fritz O. Fernstrom Traveling Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley 2011 Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Fritz O. Fernstrom Traveling Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley 2010 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Prize, University of California, Berkeley for the paper “Looking Back: Helga's Gazing in Gunnlaug's Saga,” delivered at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo. 2008 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for study of Danish at the University of Copenhagen 2007 Pre-doctoral Humanities Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley Colin Chase Bursary, University of Toronto 2005 Robert S. McGraw Award, Xavier University awarded to the top-graduating History major 2004 Bourgeois Award for French Scholarship, Xavier University Professional Development 2014 Workshop Presentation: “Conceptualizing the Senses in Medieval Iceland and Norway” at Knowledge of the North II: Traditions, Transformations, and Practices of Medieval Scandinavian Learning, University of California Berkeley, 4-5 April 2013 Workshop Presentation: “Creating the Medieval Court: Senses, Space, and Spectacle” at Knowledge of the North: Traditions, Transformations, and Practices of Medieval Scandinavian Learning, University of Bergen, Norway, 22-23 November Ph.D. Course: Translatio – Purposes, Processes, and Products, University of Oslo, Norway, 21-22 May (5 ECTS credits) 2012 International Summer School in Manuscript Studies (advanced level), Arnamagnæan Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (7.5 ECTS credits) 2011 International Summer School in Manuscript Studies, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland (5 ECTS credits) Internships 2004-5 The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati, Ohio Historical research and writing, artifact handling, event planning, publicity Scholarly Activities Editing and source-checking, Nordic Literary Histories Project (2012-2014) Saga Club Secretary (2009-2011; 2014) Working Groups: Graduate Medievalists at Berkeley, Colloquium on the Practice of Reading Reading Groups: Old Norse, Scandinavian Middle Ages, Latin, Old English Research & Teaching Interests Research: Scandinavian and European literary and cultural interfaces, translation, the senses, gender, identity, manuscript studies Teaching: Old Norse literature, Norse mythology, history and culture of Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia, medieval studies, Arthurian literature Languages Spoken: English, French, Danish Reading: Old Norse, Old English, Latin, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Icelandic, Old French Professional Affiliations International Arthurian Society (Nordic Branch) Medieval Academy of America Modern Language Association New Chaucer Society NORTANA (Norwegian Researchers and Teachers Association of North America) Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.