Curriculum Vitae

NAME: Kathleen M. Ashley, Distinguished Professor (emerita) ADDRESS: University of Southern Maine, P.O. Box 9300 Portland, ME 04104 PHONE: (207) 839-6607 (home) EMAIL: [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY USM Distinguished Professor 2011- Davidson College Kemp Visiting Distinguished Professor (2002) University of Southern Maine 1978- 2015 Asst., Assoc., Full Prof. of English SUNY-Binghamton 1974-77 Lecturer Duke University B.A. (1969) Phi Beta Kappa M.A. (1970); Ph.D. (1973)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Diana Long Friend of Women and Gender Studies Award 2017 USM Faculty Research (2012, 2009, 2005, 2004, 2002, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1986, 1985, 1982, 1980) British Academy award for pilgrimage photography 2008 Kittredge Educational Fund grant for research in 2006 Whiting Foundation grant for Burgundian performance 2005 CAS research grants 2004, 2005 Trustee Professorship --USM 2000-2001 Fulbright Senior Lectureships -U. of Lisbon 1977 & 1998 Research Associate, Centre Georges Chevrier 1997- 2017 (CNRS) University of Burgundy NEH Travel to Collections Grant- France 1989 NEH Year-long Fellowship 1986-1987 NEH Travel to Collections Grant -Dijon, France 1985 NEH Summer Seminar in Symbolic Anthropology -U. Virginia 1983 NEH Summer Research Grants 1981, 1985, 1989 Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship- Duke U. 1978-79

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

Author, The Cults of Sainte Foy and the Cultural Work of (forthcoming Routledge) Author, Being a Pilgrim: Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes to Santiago with 250 photographs by Marilyn Deegan (Ashgate/Lund Humphries, 2009). Ed. Morality play, Mankind ,with introduction, glossed Middle English text, notes, bibliography (TEAMS Middle English Texts Series, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2010).

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Co-ed. Medieval Conduct , with Robert Clark (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2001) Includes co-authored “Introduction”(ix-xx) and my essay, “The Miroir des bonnes femmes: Not for Women Only?”(86-105). Ed. Moving Subjects: Processional Performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001) Includes my Introduction, “The Moving Subjects of Processional Performance”(7-34) and an essay co-authored with Pamela Sheingorn, “Ste. Foy on the Loose, Or, the Possibilities of Procession at ”(53-67). Co-author, Writing Faith: Text. Sign. and History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy ,with Pamela Sheingorn (University of Chicago Press,1999) Co-ed. Autobiography and Postmodernism, with Leigh Gilmore and Gerald Peters (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994). Co-ed. Interpreting Cultural Symbols: St. Anne in Late Medieval Society, with Pamela Sheingorn (University of Georgia Press, 1990) Includes “Introduction” co-authored with Pamela Sheingorn (1-68) and an essay “Image and Ideology: St. Anne in Late Medieval Drama and Narrative,” (111-30). Ed. Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism: Between literature and Anthropology, (Indiana University Press, 1990). Includes “Introduction” (ix-xxii). Ed. ACTA III: The Thirteenth Century (Medieval Center: SUNY-Binghamton, 1977), 119 pp.

BOOKS IN PROGRESS

Shapers of Urban Culture: The Bourgeoisie of Burgundy (1400 -1650) (co-author John Reuter) The Way of James: The Journey Within (with photographer Jean-Pierre Rousset)

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES

Medieval Performance

Invited essay, “Claire’s Keywords,” in “Encore Performances: Papers for Claire Sponsler,” Philological Quarterly (forthcoming 2019) Invited essay, “Social Functions” in Cultural History of Theatre: The Middle Ages. Vol. 2 in the 6-volume series. Ed. Jody Enders (Bloomsbury/Methuen, forthcoming 2017) (8,000 words) Invited essay, “Mankind: The Omnibus Text,” in Special Issue “Teaching Medieval Drama” of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART) Vol. 21/2 (Fall 2014): 101-109. “The Politics of Playing Herod in Beaune,” European Medieval Drama Vol. 9 (2005):153-65. “Strange and Exotic: Images of the Other on the Medieval and Renaissance Stage” in East of West: Cross-Cultural Performance and the Staging of Difference. Ed. Claire Sponsler and Xiaomei Chen (Palgrave/St. Martin’s, 2000), pp. 77-91. “Sponsorship, Reflexivity, and Resistance: A Cultural Reading of the York Cycle Plays” in The Performance of Middle English Culture. Ed. Lawrence Clopper, James Paxson and Sylvia Tomasch (Boydell and Brewer, 1998), pp. 9-24.

2 “E. K. Chambers,” Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Studies on the Formation of a Discipline .Ed. Helen Damico (Garland, 1998), pp. 313-24.”

“Contemporary Theories of Popular Culture and Medieval Performances,” Special Issue of Medievalia on Early English Drama: New Perspectives. Ed. Milia Riggio and Martin Stevens 18 (1993; publ. 1995): 1-13. “Images of women in Medieval Drama,” Women’s Studies Encyclopedia, ed. Helen Tierney (Greenwood Press, 1990), pp. 93-95. “Cultural Approaches to Medieval Drama” in Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama. Ed. Richard Emmerson (Modem Language Association, 1990), pp. 57-66. “An Anthropological Approach to the Cycle Drama: The Shepherds as Sacred Clowns,” Le Théâtre et la Cité dans l’Europe Médiévale. Actes du V Colloque Internationale de la Societé Internationale pour l’Etude du Théâtre Medieval (Perpignan, juillet 1986). Ed. Edelgard E. DuBruck and William C. McDonald, Fifteenth-Century Studies, 13 (1988):127-38. “Cultural Theory and Medieval Drama: A Response to C. Clifford Flanigan,” [“Comparative Literature and the Study of Medieval Drama,” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 35 (1986), pp 56-104] in Yearbook, 37 (1988): 128-30. Report on the 1985 Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society at the MLA Convention Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama Medieval Supplement XXIX (1986-87): 73-75. “The Resurrection of Lazarus in Late Medieval English and French Cycle Drama,” Papers on Language and Literature, 22 (1986): 227-44. “Medieval Courtesy Literature and Dramatic Mirrors of Female Conduct,” in The Ideology of Conduct: Studies in Literature and the History of Sexuality Ed. Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (Methuen, 1987), pp. 25-38. “The Bourgeois Piety of Martha in the Passion of Jean Michel,” Modern Language Quarterly, 45 (1984): 227-40. “The Fleury Raising of Lazarus and Twelfth-Century Currents of Thought,” Comparative Drama, 15 (1981): 139-58; reprinted in The Fleurv Plavbook Essavs and Studies. Ed. Thomas Campbell and Clifford Davidson (Medieval Institute Publications, 1985), pp. 100-119. “The N-Town Passion at Toronto and Late Medieval Passion Iconography,” (with Theresa Coletti) Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 24 (1981): 181-87. “‘Wyt’ and ‘Wysdam’ in N-Town Cycle,” Philological Quarterly, 58 (1979): 121-35. “The Specter of Bernard’s Noon-day Demon in Medieval Drama,” American Benedictine Review, 30 (1979): 205-21. “Divine Power in Chester Cycle and Late Medieval Thought,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 39 (1978): 387-404. Reprinted in The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Casebook. Ed. Kevin J. Harty (Garland, 1995). “Civic Drama at York,” Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama Medieval Supplement, 20 (1977): 110-12. “Tutivillus and the Battle of Words in Mankind,” Annuale Mediaevale, 16 (1975): 128-50.

Medieval/Early Modern Literature, Art and History “Psalm-Singing at Home: The Case of Estienne Mathieu, a Burgundian Protestant” in Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World (Brill, forthcoming in “Intersections” series) “”Wolf Cubs, the Butchers and the Beaune Town Council,” in Our Dogs, Our Selves: Dogs in Medieval and Early Modern Society, ed. Laura D. Gelfand (Brill, 2016), pp. 68-77.

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“Scripts for Funeral Theater: Burgundian Testaments and the Performance of Social Identities” in Women and Wills, ed. by Joelle Rollo-Koster and Kathryn L. Reyerson (St. Andrews Studies in French History and Culture, 2012), pp. 61-79. “Abigail Mathieu’s Civic Charity: Social Reform and the Search for Personal Immortality,” in Money, Morality and Culture: Trading Values in late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Ed. Diane Wolfthal and Juliann Vitullo (Ashgate, 2010), pp. 197-215. French translation of essay published in Les Mémoires de la Société d’Histoire et d’Archéologie de Chalon-sur-Saône t. LXXVIII (2010): 47-60. “Literature of Pilgrimage” entry (2,000 words) for Brill Encyclopedia of Pilgrimage. (2010) “The Mural Paintings of Horsham Saint Faith, Norfolk: Secular Patronage and Monastic Memory” in Out of the Stream: New Directions in the Study of Mural Painting. Ed. Luis Afonso and Vitor Serrão (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), pp. 318-34. “Saint Louis’ letters of instruction to his son and daughter” (introduction, edition and translation) in Medieval Conduct Literature: An Anthology of Vernacular Guides to Behavior for Youth, with English Translations. Ed. Mark D. Johnston (Medieval Academy Books. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), pp. 3-22. “Material and Symbolic Gift-Giving: The Evidence of French and English Wills” in Medieval Fabrications: Dress. Textiles, Clothwork and other Cultural Imaginings. Ed. E. Jane Burns (Palgrave, 2004), pp. 137-46, 233-36. 2000 word entry on “Etiquette and Manners,” Dictionary of the Middle Ages-Supplement Vol. 14 (Charles Scribners’ Sons, 2004; publ. under ACLS auspices), pp. 183-86. “Accounts of Lives” in A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture. c.1350-1500. Ed. Peter Brown (Blackwell, 2007), pp. 437-53. Co-ed. with Veronique Plesch, “The Cultural Processes of Appropriation,” A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies Vol. 32 (Winter 2002) Co-author, Introduction to the issue (1-15) Author of essay, “Creating Family Identity in Books of Hours” (145-65) “Historicizing Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe as Social Text” in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Issue on “Communities in Change.” Ed. Sarah Beckwith 28 (1998): 375-92. Reprinted in The Book of Margery Kempe. Trans. & ed. by Lynn Staley (Norton Critical Editions, 2000). Workshop summary: “Reading Early Modem Books of Female Instruction and Conduct,” in Attending to Early Modern Women. Ed. S.A. Amussen and A. Seeff (University of Delaware Press, 1997) “Lives of Medieval Urban Lay Women” in Women’s Studies Encyclopedia, Ed. Helen Tierney (Greenwood Press) “Courtesy Literature” for Medieval : An Encyclopedia (Garland) “Bonding and Signification in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” in Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives on the Pearl Poet. Ed. Robert J. Blanch, Miriam Youngerman Miller, and Julian Wasserman (Whitston Publishing, 1990), pp. 213-219. “Renaming the Sins: A Homiletic Topos of Linguistic Instability in the Canterbury Tales,” Sign, Sentence, Discourse: Essays on the Theme of Language in Medieval Thought and Literature. Ed. Julian Wasserman (Syracuse University Press, 1988), pp. 272-93.

4 “‘Trawthe’ and Temporality: The Violation of Contracts and Conventions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” Assays Vol. IV (1987): 3-24. “The Guiler Beguiled: Christ and Satan as Theological Tricksters in Medieval Religious Literature,” Criticism, 24 (1982): 126-37. “Voice and Audience: The Emotional World of the Cantigas de Amigo,” in Vox Feminae: Medieval Woman’s Song. Ed. John Plummer (Medieval Institute Publications, 1980), pp. 35-45. “The Role of the Courts and the Thirteenth Century Portuguese Lyric,” ACTA III (1977): 65-78.

Cultural Theory & Ritual Invited contributor, “Cultures of Devotion” in Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe. Ed. Judith Bennett and Ruth Karras (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 511-26. Invited contributor, “Hugging the Saint: Improvising Ritual on the Pilgrimage to ,” in Push Me. Pull You: Art and Devotional Interaction in Late Medieval and Earlv Modern Europe. Vol. 2. Ed. Sarah Blick and Laura Gelfand (Brill, 2011), pp. 3-20. Entry on “Victor Turner” for ACLS-sponsored American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1999), vol. 22, pp. 36-38. “Contemporary Theories of Ritual and the Concept of Traditional Religion in Duffy’s The Stripping of the Altars” in Assays IX (1996): 35-40. “Victor Turner in the Forest of Folklore,” Medieval Folklore (Spring 1993): 1-20. Co-Editor with Irene Winter, Special issue on Art in Ritual Context, Journal of Ritual Studies 5 (1992). Author, “Introduction: Art in Ritual Context,” (1-11) Co-author with Pamela Sheingorn, “An Unsentimental View of Ritual in the Middle Ages, or Sainte Foy was no Snow White” (63-85). “Interrogating Biblical Deception and Trickster Theories: Narratives of Patriarchy or Possibility?” in special issue Reasoning with the Foxes: Female Wit in a World of Male Power, Semeia (An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism) 42 (1988): 103-16

Hagiography Co-author with Pamela Sheingorn, “The Performed Book: Textuality and Social Space in the Cult of Sainte Foy” in Ritual, Performance, and Culture. Ed. Robert L. A. Clark (Special issue of ROMARD, v. 52), pp. 197-219. Extensive annotated bibliog. “” for Oxford Bibliographies Online (forthcoming) Invited participant, “The Cult of Saints: A Discussion” in Colloquia: Journal of Central European History, Vol XII/1-2 (2005): 135-63. Entries on “Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary,” “Mary and Martha,” and “Foy” in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2007). Revision of “Saint Anne” entry for Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia On line” (forthcoming) Co-author with C. Clifford Flanigan and Pamela Sheingorn, “The Liturgy as Social Performance: Expanding the Definitions” in The Liturgy of the Medieval Church. Ed. Thomas J. Heffernan and E. Ann Matter (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2001; 2nd. Ed. 2005), pp. 695-714.

5 Co-author with Pamela Sheingorn of invited essay, “Discordia et lis: Negotiating Power, Property and Performance in Medieval Sélestat,” for special issue of Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies on “Maps of Authority: Conflict In Medieval and Early Modern Urban Landscapes” vol. 26 (Fall 1996): 419-446. Co-author with Pamela Sheingorn, “Translating Foy: Bodies, Texts and Places” in The Medieval Translator. Ed. Roger Ellis and Ruth Evans (Brepols, 1996): 29-49. Co-author with Pamela Sheingorn, “Le Culte de Ste. Foy à Sélestat et à Conques: étude comparative,” 1994 Annuaire (Bibliothèque Humaniste de Sélestat): 77-83.

American Literature and Culture “Strategies of Appropriation in Native American Autobiography: William Apess and N. Scott Momaday,” Anglo-Saxonica: Revista do Centro de Estudos Anglisticos da Universidade de Lisboa. 22, (2004): 129-58. “Toni Morrison’s Tricksters,” in Uneasy Alliance: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography. Ed. Hans Bak (Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2004), pp. 269-284. “Performing Folklore: The Dilemmas of Zora Neale Hurston,” in Feminine Identities. Ed. Teresa Alves and Teresa Cid (Lisbon: Edicões Colibri, 2002), pp. 181-202. “Mary Antin’s Biomythography” in Writing Lives: American Biography and Autobiography. Ed. Hans Bak and Hans Krabbendam (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1998), pp. 42-54.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Linda E. Mitchell, Joan de Valence:The Life and Influence of a Thirteenth Century Noblewoman for Journal of British Studies (forthcoming) Review of Cathédrale et pèlerinage aux époques médiévale et moderne: Reliques, processions et devotions à l’église-mère du diocese for Catholic Historical Review 98/3 (July 2012): 549- 50. Review of Theresa Tinkle, Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis. (Palgrave Macmilan, 2010) for Speculum 87/3 (July 2012): 929-31. Review of England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th-15th Century: Cultural, Literary and Political Exchanges. Ed. Maria Bullón-Fernàndez. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) for The Sixteenth Century Journal (Summer 2009): 585-86. Review of Catherine Sanok, Her Life Historical: Exemplarity and Female Saints’ Lives in Late Medieval England for the Catholic Historical Review (July 2008): 572-73. Review of Kelly Robertson, The Laborer’s Two Bodies: Labor and the Work of the Text in Medieval Britain. 1350-1500 (Palgrave, 2006) for Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2007): 539-42. Review of Carol Rawcliffe, Medieval Norwich for Sixteenth Century Studies (Winter 2007): 1149- 51. Review of Ruth Nisse, Defining Acts: Drama and the Politics of Interpretation in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame, 2005) for Speculum (2006): 1237-38. Review of Virginia Nixon, Mary’s Mother for Speculum (2006): 573-74. Review of John Edward Damon, Soldier Saints and Holy Warriors (Ashgate, 2003) for Christianity and Literature 53 (Summer 2004):541-44.

6 Review of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing. Ed. Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace (Cambridge, 2003) for Speculum 80 (January 2005): 212-14. Review of Anne Marie De Gendt, L’art d’eduquer les nobles demoiselles: Le livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry (Essais sur le Moyen Age, 28) (Champion, 2003) for Speculum 80 (July 2005):861-62. Review of Sarah Salih, Versions of Virginity (D.S. Brewer, 2001), Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25(2003):420-23. Review of Enid Blyton and the Mystery of Children’s Literature by David Rudd (Palgrave, 2000), co-authored with Marilynn Olson in the children’s literature journal Lion and Unicorn (2003) Review of Santa Cruz de Coimbra: A cultura porturuesa aberta. Eurona na idade media./The Portuguese Culture Opened to Europe in the Middle Ages. (Porto, 2001) Speculum 78 (October 2003):1396-97. Review of Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays by Sarah Beckwith (Chicago, 2001) Speculum 78 (July 2003): 834-35. Review of The Politics of Carnival: Festive misrule in medieval England by Chris Humphrey (Manchester UP/Palgrave) for Early Theatre (2002). Review of Une société de l’honneur: Les notables et leur monde à Dijon à la fin du moyen âge by Thierry Dutour (Champion, 1998) Speculum 76 (April 2001): 441-43. Review of Isabelle de Portugal, duchesse de Bourgogne: Une femme au pouvoir au XVe siècle by Monique Sommé (Septentrion, 1998) Speculum 75 (July 2000):159-60. Review of Saints’ Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography by John Kitchen (Oxford, 1998), Speculum 76 (January, 2001):181-84. Review of The Medieval Theater of Cruelty by Jody Enders (Cornell, 1998) for Arthuriana (2000):72-75. Review of Five Euphemias: Women in Medieval Scotland 1200-1420 by Elizabeth Sutherland (St. Martin’s, 1999) for Biography 23/4 (Fall 2000): 775-77. Review of recent Chaucer criticism for College English 62 (Sept. 1999): 112-18. Review of Giles Constable, Studying Medieval Religions and Social Thought: Mary and Martha in Medieval Feminist Newsletter 22 (1996): 35-39. Review of St. Teresa of Avila by Carole Slade in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 11 (1996):163-65. Review of Seeable Signs: The Iconogranhv of the Seven Sacraments by Ann Nichols in Studies in Iconography 17 (1996): 429-31. Review of Les Visions de la Vie de Cour dans la Littérature Francaise de la fin du Moyen Age by Jacques LeMaire in Speculum 71/2 (April 1996): 456-458. Review of Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature, ed. Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury (Pennsylvania 1993) in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 16 (1994):219-24. Review of Jody Enders’ Rhetoric and the Origins of Medieval Drama (Cornell, 1992) in Modern Language Quarterly, 55 (1994): 217-219. Review of Tales of the Marriage Bed from Medieval France by R. C. Famiglietti (Picardy Press, 1992) in Speculum: 138. Review of Dictionary of the Middle Ages in Bulletin of the General Theological Library of Bangor Theological Seminary, 85 (1991): 5-6. Review of R.D.S. Jack, Patterns of Divine Comedy: A Study of Medieval English Drama (D.S. Brewer, 1989), Speculum, 66 (1991). Review of Reading Between the Lines by Annabel Patterson (Wisconsin, 1988) in Albion: 334-35.

7 Review of Kathryn Lynch, The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy and Literary Form (Stanford University Press, 1988) Papers on Language and Literature. Review of Ian Lancashire, Dramatic Texts and Records of Britain” A Chronological Topography to 1558 (University of Toronto Press, 1984) in JEGP (January 1986) Review of Alan Knight, Aspects of Genre in Late Medieval French Drama (Manchester University Press, 1983) in Speculum (April 1985). Review of Francisco Noda Manso, La Narratividad de la poesia lirica galaico portuguesa (Reichenberger, 1985) in Romance Quarterly 35 (1988): 243-4. Review of Peter Travis, Dramatic Design in the Chester Cycle (University of Chicago Press, 1982) in JEGP (July 1983).

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

President: Hagiography Society (2010-13) -- an international society for the study of saints and their cults Hagiography Society Book Prize Committee (2017-18)

Advisory Boards: Journal of Ritual Studies, Medieval Folklore, Translations of Early European Drama Series

Reader: Presses -- Penn State Press, Cornell UP, Routledge UP, Princeton UP, U. of Chicago Press, Indiana UP, U. of Pennsylvania Press, U. of Minnesota Press, U. of Toronto Press, Syracuse UP, U. of Florida Press, Bedford Books, D.C. Heath, Macmillan, MARTS, SUNY Press, Catholic U. of America Press, MLA Publications, Medieval Institute Publications, Polity Press, Oxford UP, U of Notre Dame, Ashgate Journals -- Speculum, PMLA, Romance Quarterly, Assays, Journal of Ritual Studies, Modern Language Quarterly, Philological Quarterly, Signs, Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Chaucer Review, Early Theatre, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, European Medieval Drama, Theatre Survey, Medieval Encounters: Jewish. Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue, Exemplaria, Viator, Religion & Literature, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, Harts & Minds, Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies

Professional Memberships Hagiography Society Societe pour l’Histoire du Droit et des institutions des anciens pays Bourguignons, comtois et romans (CNRS) – Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France Modern Language Association Sixteenth Century Society Society for Early Modern Women

Outside Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion: Oberlin College, Bowdoin College, SUNY-Albany, Lewiston-Auburn College, University of Missouri-Columbia, San Francisco State University (3 cases), Ohio State University,

8 Pittsburgh, Duke, Colby College (4 cases), University of Rhode Island, Kent State University, University of Colorado-Denver, Wesleyan, SUNY-Binghamton, University of Maine-Orono (5 cases), University of Maine-Augusta, University of Iowa, University of Toledo, Purdue University, University of Alaska-Anchorage, Lehigh University

Other Service to Profession: (1) Reviewer & Panelist: National Endowment for the Humanities Proposals in Anthropology, Medieval Studies, Educational Development; Exemplary Institutional Grants; Classics, Medieval and Renaissance Literature for Summer Fellowships (2) Member, Executive Committee, Div. on Middle English Language & Literature, Modem Language Assoc. 1992-97 (3) Delegate, New England Region, to Delegate Assembly of the Modem Language Assoc. 1991-93; 2003-2005 (4) Consultant, Lecturer, and Discussion Leader: Portland Public Schools “Community of Learners” Project, “From Medieval to Renaissance: Key Themes in European Culture, 1300-1600” 1983-85 (5) Project Director: The Autobiography Project (International Conference on “The Subject of Autobiography” and Library Reading-Discussion series on Autobiography) 1988-90 Maine Humanities Council funded for $13,360 (6) Leader: Writing for Publication Workshops May, 1983; October, 1987 (7) Advisory Board: “Let’s Talk About It” reading and discussion series Maine Library Association, Maine Humanities Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities 1986-89 (8) Founding Organizer: Maine Medieval Association (1982) (9) Council Member, Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society 1988-90 (10) U.S. Representative for Societe Internationale Pour L’Etude du Theatre Medieval 1989-92 (11) Steering Committee, New England Medieval Association 1994-1998 (12) Project Scholar, “Shaping Identities: Autobiography and the American Experience,” NEH funded Summer 1995 Seminar with the Maine Collaborative (13) Project Scholar for Maine Collaborative seminars on Autobiography Fall 1996 (14) Founding Organizer: USM Coalition for the Liberal Arts 1995- Organizer of two public programs --The Value of a Liberal Arts Education (Feb. 1996) and the Library Forum (Sept. 1996) (15) Seminar Leader, “Learning at the Boundary: for Maine Humanities Council (Spring 1998) (16) Local Organizer for New England Medieval Conference on “The Cultural Processes of Appropriation” Portland, ME October 2-4, 1998 (17) Respondent, MHC Forum on Dante’s Inferno Bowdoin College March 5-6, 1999 (18) Outside Evaluator for English Dept., Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH April1999 (19) Outside reader for dissertations: SUNY-Binghamton, McGill (degrees granted 1999) (20) Outside reader for Bates College Honors Thesis, “Brigit: The Making of a Saint” Dec. 1999 (21) Seminar Facilitator, NEH-funded Literature and Medicine Seminar at Maine Medical Center for Maine Humanities Council (January-June 2000) (22) Discussion leader, “Let’s Talk About It” series, Baxter Library, Gorham (Feb -May 2000) (23) Panelist/Judge for Special Issue (2000 competition), Council of Editors of Learned Journals (24) Discussion leader, literature and Medicine Conference Bates College November 4, 2000 (25) Member, Evaluation team for English Department at Hunter College, NY (December 2000)

9 (26) Seminar leader, Medieval Performance” for Teachers as Scholars seminar (Fall 2001) (27) Seminar leader, Literature and Medicine Seminar at Mercy Hospital, Portland, ME for Maine Humanities Council January -June 2002 (28) Faculty member, Humanities at the Heart of Health Care (NEH-funded) Institute for Humanities Facilitators Portland, ME June 23-27 2002 (29) Seminar leader, Literature and Medicine Seminar at Spring Harbor Hospital, Portland, ME for Maine Humanities Council January - May 2005; January - May 2006 (30) Consultant for Angolan mission history, Nellie Arnott Darling project -- Spring 2005 (31) Co-organizer, Mini-conference “First Person Persuasive: Autobiography/History/Fiction” University of Southern Maine April 22, 2005 (32) Reviewer for 2008-2009 ACLS Fellowship applications in European Literature - Fall 2008 (33) Series Designer for Maine Humanities Council “Let’s Talk About It”: selection of five books on intercultural experience: Growing Up Between Cultures. Writing critical materials to accompany this reading series at libraries beginning in 2011-12. (34) Program committee for New England Medieval Conference - Bates College October 2011 (35) Outside reader for dissertation on medieval drama at University of Alberta, Canada Sept. 2011 (36) Organizer for Maine Medieval Association meeting at USM Sept. 29, 2012 (37) Seminar leader, Literature and Medicine Seminar at Mid Coast Hospital, Brunswick, Me for Maine Humanities Council (January – May 2014)

DISCUSSIONS, SLIDE-LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS

(1) Principles of Medieval Symbolism, slide-lecture, Pendle Hill Quaker Study Ctr., Media, PA Nov. 14, 1974. (2) Discussion Leader, Interdisciplinary Medieval Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Nov. 6, 1976. (3) Panelist, Seminar on Stylistics in the Medieval Romance Lyric, MLA Convention, New York, NY Dec. 1976. (4) Corpus Christi Drama, slide-lecture, Maine Junior Classical League, Bates College March 25, 1981. (5) How to Teach Medieval Drama, lecture-discussion, Plymouth State Medieval Conference, Plymouth, NH April 24, 1981. (6) Workshop Leader, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Biddeford H.S., Biddeford, ME 1982. (7) Teaching Interdisciplinary Courses on the Middle Ages, lecture- discussion, Plymouth State Medieval Conference April, 1983. (8) Moderator, System-wide English Dept. meeting, Univ. of Maine Oct. 1983. (9) Leader, Workshops on the Novel, Sanford H.S. (Maine) Nov. 1983. (10) Lecturer-discussion leader, Community of Learners sessions: “Naturalism: Heaven & Earth in 14th Century Art and Literature” Oct. 1984. (11) Lecturer, The Color Purple in History, Wayneflete School (Portland, ME) Feb. 1986. (12) “The Bible as Drama in the Middle Ages,” Bible in the Classroom Conference, Univ. of Maine- Farmington Feb. 1986. (13) Participant, roundtable discussion on “Ritual, Sacred Imagery, and Art,” College of Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) March 28, 1992

10 (14) Slide-lecture, “Constructing Sainte Foy: , Miracle-Worker, Female Trickster, or Political Patron?” Maine Medieval Association, Univ. of Maine-Orono, Oct. 16, 1993. (15) Moderator, Panel on “Rethinking What It Means to Be an American,” Celebrate Writers Festival, University of Southern Maine, April 16, 1994. (16) Organizer and Presider, Mock-Interview Session for Graduate Students, MIA Convention, San Diego, CA Dec., 1994. (17) Slide-lecture, “Conques the Magical Village and its Saint” The Atrium Portland, ME Sept. 2001 (18) Lecture, “Medieval Manners: A Conduct Book for Women” Women’s Literary Union Portland, ME Jan. 2001 (19) Workshop: What the Humanities Scholar Does” for Gifted Education & The Disciplines: From Theory to Practice Summer Institute Portland, ME July 30, 2003 (20) Organizer and Presider, Maine Medieval meeting Stone House, Freeport, ME Sept. 25, 2004 (21) Discussant, “The Secret of Kells” movie, Portland Children’s Film Festival, USM March 31, 2012

PAPERS AND LECTURES DELIVERED

(1) The Concept of Divine Power in Chester Cycle and Late Medieval Nominalism, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 10, 1975. (2) Chaucer’s Money Satire: The Shipman’s Tale and St. Denys, Ohio Medieval Conference Oct. 13, 1975. (3) A Cyclic Approach to the N-Town Plays, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 1976. (4) The Specter of Bernard’s Noon-day Demon in Medieval Drama, Ohio Medieval Conference Oct. 13, 1976. (5) Dream Allegories and Their Medieval Audience, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY Dec. 15, 1976. (6) The Fleury Raising of Lazarus and Twelfth-Century Currents of Thought, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 3, 1979. (7) Voice and Audience: The Emotional World of the Cantigas de Amigo, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 3, 1979. (8) Structural Modes in Medieval Religious History and Drama, Wayne State Faculty Forum, Detroit, MI May 10, 1979. (9) Courtesy in York Cycle and the Medieval Concept of Gentilesse, Plymouth State Medieval Conference April 18, 1980. (10) Dynamic Parallelism in the Cantigas de Amigo, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 2, 1980. (11) Old Testament/New Testament Typology in Early Religious Drama, International Medieval Theater Conference, Dublin, Ireland July 10, 1980. (12) Invited Paper: The Resurrection of Lazarus in the English Cycle Plays, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 10, 1981. (13) Organizer: Special Session, The Figure of the Trickster in Medieval Literature, MIA Convention, New York, NY Dec. 1981. (14) Organizer: Critical Approaches --The Idea in Genre and History, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 8, 1982.

11 (15) Generic Contexts for the Medieval Topos of Renaming the Sins, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 8, 1982. (16) Invited Paper: Corporate vs. Individual Modes of Love in the Drama Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May, 1982. (17) Invited Paper: Bourgeois Piety and the Passion of Jean Michel, Fifteenth Century Symposium, Regensberg, Germany Aug. 11, 1982. (18) Mirrors for the Fifteenth Century Guildsman: Cycle Drama and the formation of Civic Identity, Conference on Persons in Groups, SUNY-Binghamton Oct. 15, 1982. (19) Invited Paper: Pilate’s Courteous Beadle and the Audience of York Cycle, MLA Convention, , CA Dec. 29, 1982. (20) Contracts and Conventions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Moral and Literary Implications of Giving One’s Word, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May, 1983 (21) Invited Paper: Medieval Courtesy Literature and Dramatic Mirrors of Female Conduct, MLA Convention Dec. 28, 1983 (22) Invited Paper: Social Functions of Sexual Symbolism: The History of Women’s Conduct Books, Women’s History Week, Univ. of Southern Maine, Portland, ME March 7, 1984. (23) Invited Lecture: The Development of Women as Moral Guardians, Thomas Memorial Library, Cape Elizabeth, ME Oct. 17, 1984. (24) Organizer, Special Session: The Legacy of Victor Turner, MLA Convention, Washington D.C. Dec. 28, 1984. (25) Invited Paper: Reflexivity --Guild Dramas as Metasocial Commentary, MLA Convention, Washington D.C. Dec. 27, 1984. (26) Invited Lecture: Women’s Romance Fiction -A Sociological Approach, Popular Culture, CORE class, Univ. of Southern Maine, Portland, ME Repeated Spring 1985, Fall 1985, and Fall 1986. (27) Invited Paper: Bonding and Signification in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Medieval- Renaissance Conference, Charleston, SC March 14, 1985. (28) Invited Talk: The Chester Cycle -- An Anthropological Approach, Mellon Faculty Colloquium, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA April 12, 1985. (29) Lecture: This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind by Ivan Doig, Rice Library, Kittery, ME April 23, 1985 (Repeated Fall 1985 in Gardiner, ME and Fall 1988 in York, ME). (30) Session Chair: The Pearl Poet and Iconography, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May, 1985. (31) Invited Paper: Cultural Criticism and Late Medieval Urban Drama, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May, 1985. (32) Invited Talk: Cultural Criticism and the Cycle Drama, Maine Medieval Association meeting, U. of Maine-Orono Sept. 28, 1985. (33) Organizer: Special Session, Perspectives on the Toronto Towneley Cycle as Dramatic Literature and Public Spectacle, MLA Convention, Chicago IL Dec. 28, 1985. (34) Invited Lecture: Trickster Tales, CORE course on Myths and Mythmaking, Univ. of Southern Maine, Portland, ME Feb. 10, 1986. (35) Invited Lecture: The Fiction of Romance in Woman’s Romance Fiction, English Students’ Association, Univ. of Southern Maine, Portland, ME Feb. 14, 1986. (36) Invited Talk: Cultural Criticism and Late Medieval Urban Drama, Harvard University March 6, 1986.

12 (37) Invited Paper: Cultural Criticism -- the Case for the Shepherds’ Plays, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 9, 1986. (38) Paper: An Anthropological Approach to the Cycle Drama: The Shepherds as Sacred Clowns, 5th International Symposium on Medieval Theatre, Perpignan, France July, 1986. (39) Lecture: The Beans of Egypt, Maine by Carolyn Chute, Dexter Library, Dexter, ME Aug. 20, 1986. (40) Lecture: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Auburn Library, Auburn, ME Nov. 4, 1986. (41) Featured Speaker: Literature and Anthropology Comparative Literature Symposium, Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX Jan., 1987. (42) Invited Paper: (En)gendering Faith: The Credibility of Female Vision in Late Medieval Culture, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May, 1987. (43) Invited Speaker: Kinship, Cleanness and Wisdom: The Cosmology of the N-Town Cycle, Symposium on the N-Town Cycle, Univ. of Toronto May, 1987. (44) Featured Speaker: Session on Body, Ritual and Society in Medieval English Drama, The English Institute, Harvard Univ. Aug., 1987. (45) Talk: Growing Up by Russell Baker, Scarborough Library, Scarborough, ME Sept., 1987 (Repeated in other libraries 1988, 1989, 1990). (46) Paper: Magnum as Metasocial Commentary, NE Popular Culture Association, Nov. 1987. (47) Paper: Festive Mirrors of French and English Society, MLA Convention, San Francisco, CA Dec., 1987. (48) Plenary Lecture: Festive Mirrors of Medieval Society: Drama as Cultural Performance, Interdisciplinary Conference on Fairs, Festivals and Feastdays, New York, NY March 4, 1988. (49) Invited Speaker: Religious Festivals in Iran and Medieval Europe, at Ta’ziyeh --A Drama Festival and Conference, Trinity College, Hartford, CT May 2, 1988. (50) Invited Paper: “The Preachers of N- Town Cycle” at Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 5, 1988. (51) Invited Plenary Speaker: “Making a Life, Shaping an Identity: Ethnic Americans in Maine” at Summer Institute in Maine Literature, Bates College, Lewiston, ME July 15, 1988. (52) Lecturer: “The Mystery of Mysteries” in Series on The Mystery, Thomas Memorial Library, Cape Elizabeth, ME Oct. 6, 1988. (53) Invited Speaker: “Image and Ideology -- St. Anne as Cultural Symbol in Late Medieval Narrative and Drama, NYU Medieval Renaissance Lecture Series, New York, NY Nov. 7, 1988. (54) “The Anxiety of Experience: Women’s Studies and the Honors Curriculum,” Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 6, 1989. (55) Invited Speaker: “Strange and Exotic: Images of the ‘Other’ on the Medieval and Renaissance Stage,” Conference on Spectacle and Image in Renaissance Europe, Tours, France July 5, 1989. (56) “The Woman’s Gaze: St. Anne in the Visions of Late Medieval Women,” Sixth Triennial Colloquium of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theatre, Lancaster, England July 13-19, 1989. (57) “Class, Gender and the Rhetoric of Courtesy in English and French Conduct Books,” Conference on the Reader and the Book in England 1400-1575, Univ. of Durham, Durham, England July 25-28, 1989.

13 (58) “(En)gendering Visions: Autobiography as Social Text in The Book of Margery Kempe,” Conference on The Subject of Autobiography, Portland, ME Sept. 29 -Oct. 1, 1989. (59) “Just Fooling: Forms of Play and the Critique of Power in Early Modern Performance,” MLA Convention, Washington D.C. Dec. 29, 1989. (60) Invited Speaker: “Strange and Exotic: Images of the ‘Other’ on the Medieval and Renaissance Stage,” Medieval Club of New York April 6, 1990. (61) “(En)gendering Visions: Autobiography as Social Text in The Book of Margery Kempe,” Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 11, 1990. (62) “Dramatic Word and Image: Performative Contexts for the Exotic ‘Other’ in Early Modern Europe,” Conference on The Sister Arts and Cultural Studies, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Oct. 19- 21,1990. (63) “Autobiography as Cultural Text: The Book of Margery Kempe,” MLA Convention Special Session: Toward a Theory of the Mystic’s Autobiography, Chicago, IL Dec., 1990. (64) Session Organizer and Presider for “Moving Subjects: The Semiotics of Processional Performance,” Medieval and Renaissance Society sponsored session, MLA Convention, Chicago, IL Dec., 1990. (65) Chair, “Medieval Folklore” and “Popular Religion”- sessions, Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May, 1991. (66) “Class, Gender, and the Rhetoric of Courtesy in English and French Conduct Books,” International Conference on British Courtesy Books, Clermont-Ferrand, France Sept. 27-28, 1991. (67) “Religious Text/Cultural Performance: Theorizing the York Plays,” Middle English Literature Div. Session, MIA Convention, San Francisco, CA Dec. 27-30, 1991. (68) “The Women Owners of the Miroir des bonnes femmes and the Definition of Urban Elites,” Women and Literacy Session, Medieval Academy Meeting, Columbus, OH March 19-21, 1992. (69) Invited Lecture: “Historicizing Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe as Social Text,” SUNY-Binghamton, NY March 30, 1992. (70) Co-organizer, Special Session: “Toward a Theory of Conduct: Models for Behavior in Medieval Texts and Communities,” Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 7-10, 1992. (71) “Contemporary Theories of Popular Culture and Medieval Performances,” Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 7-10, 1992. (72) Invited Participant, “Contemporary Anthropological Theory and Its Applicability to Chaucer Studies,” Colloquium on Anthropology, Religion, and Chaucer, Chaucer Society Congress, Seattle, WA Aug. 1-5, 1992. (73) Invited Respondent, Special Session on Victor Turner and the Construction of Cultural Criticism, American Folklore Society meeting, Jacksonville, FL Oct. 15-18, 1992. (74) “Gawain, Arthur’s English Knight: An Historical Perspective,” Gawain Conference, Eastern Illinois Univ., Charleston, IL Oct. 29-30, 1992. (75) “S. Foy on the Loose, or the Possibilities of Procession” (with P. Sheingorn), Conference on Public Structures: Shaping the World in the Middle Ages and the Rennaisance, Barnard College, New York, NY Dec. 5, 1992. (76) “Women’s Honor, Family Ennoblement and the Ownership of Conduct Literature,- MLA Convention, New York, NY Dec., 1992. (77) “Historicizing Margery Kempe” lecture at University of Alabama, Huntsville March 31, 1993.

14 (78) “Sainte Foy, the Trickster -medicus” (with Pamela Sheingorn) at Sewanee Medieval Colloquium on “Saints and Their Cults in the Middle Ages” April 2-3, 1993. (79) “E. K. Chambers and the Formation of English Studies,” Kalamazoo Medieval Conference May 1993. (80) Co-organizer, Special Session: Toward a Theory of Conduct: Behavior as Social Text” Kalamazoo Medieval Conference May 1993. (81) Invited Scholar: Ritual Studies Colloquium, University of Colorado, May 23-25, 1993. (82) “Translating Foy: Bodies, Texts, and Places” (with Pamela Sheingorn), Translation in the Middle Ages Conference, Conques, France, July 26-29, 1993. (83) Invited Speaker: “Theories of Popular Culture and Medieval Urban Drama” Session on Anthropological Approaches to History, American Academy of Religion, Washington D.C. November 20, 1993. (84) Invited Lecturer on Cultural Studies, “Producing and Reproducing the Cult of Sainte Foy: Trickster Child, Miracle Worker, Patron of Aristocracy and Yirgin Martyr,” University of Houston November 22, 1993. (85) Invited Lecturer, “Sponsorship, Reflexivity and Resistance: A Cultural Reading of the York Cycle,” Inaugural Lecture for the Helen Ann Robbins Lecture Series, University of Rochester December 3, 1993. (86) Invited Participant: “The Performed Book: Textuality and Social Space in the Cult of Sainte Foy” (with Pamela Sheingorn) at The Book in Performance Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA February 25-27, 1994. Also given at Indiana University April 8, 1994. (87) Invited Participant/Session Organizer: Reading Early Modern Books of Female Instruction and Conduct at “Attending to Women: Women’s History and the Sixteenth Century,” University of Maryland April 22, 1994. (88) “Vows and Gifts: Negotiating Rituals of Contract in the Eleventh-Century Cult of Sainte Foy at Conques” (with Pamela Sheingorn) at the Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, May 6, 1994. (89) Co-organizer, Special Session: “Toward a Theory of Conduct: A Workshop,” Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May, 1994. (90) Invited Participant: “Ritual Theories and Eamon Duffey’s The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580” at Chaucer Colloquium, Dublin, Ireland, August 1994. (91) Paper, “Canons and Conduct Books: Placing a Literature Addressed to Women,” Special Session, “Theorizing Popular Culture,” MLA Convention, San Diego, CA December, 1994. (92) Invited paper, “Theorizing the ‘Other’ in Medieval Studies and Cultural Studies,” Conference on “The Cultural Work of Ritual, Symbol and the Other,” University of Western Ontario Feb. 10-11, 1995. (93) Paper (with Pamela Sheingorn) “Hagiography and Gender Theory: Appropriating the Female in the Cults of Sainte Foy” Medieval Academy, Boston March, 1995 (94) Organizer, Special Session, “Toward a Theory of Conduct: Medieval Theorizations,” Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI May 1995. (95) Paper (with Pamela Sheingorn) “The Liturgy as Social Performance,” Session on “Ritual, Performance and Culture in Honor of C. Clifford Flanigan,” Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1995.

15 (96) Paper, “The Performed Book: Textuality and Social Space in the Cult of Sainte Foy,” Bates College Lecture Series, Lewiston, ME May 9, 1995 (97) Paper, “Curriculum Review at USM,” Associated Departments of English Annual Seminar for Chairs, Portland, ME June 23, 1995. (98) Panel Chair, “Cultural Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages” for New England Medieval Conference, October 1995. (99) Panelist, Gender in the Middle Ages Conference, University of North Carolina, October 1995. (100) Invited Paper, “Gender Theory and the Cults of Foy” Bates College, Maine, February 15, 1996. (101) Paper (with Pamela Sheingorn) “The Conches Connection: Foy as Civic Saint (11th to 16th Centuries)” Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1996. (102) Invited Paper, “Mary Antin’s The Promised Land as Biomythography,” at Netherlands American Studies Association, “Writing Lives: American Biography and Autobiography” Middelburg, The Netherlands, June 5-7, 1996. (103) Plenary Speaker, “Cultural Studies and Medieval Studies: Theorizing the ‘Other’ in Bernard of Angers’ Book of Miracles of Sainte Foy”CEMERS Conference SUNY-Binghamton, October 18-19, 1996. (104) Plenary Speaker,” The Miroir des bonnes femmes: Not for Women Only?” Midwest Medieval Association U. of Iowa September 19, 1997 (105) Invited Lecture, Medieval Performance & Cultural Theory, Duke University March 9, 1998 (106) Workshop Organizer, “Ethnicity as American Cultural Alternative,” European Association for American Studies Lisbon, Portugal April 1998 (107) Invited Paper, “The Monitory Mate: Marriage in Late Medieval Conduct Books” at the Medieval Congress Kalamazoo, MI May 1998 (108) Invited Lecture, “The Miroir des bonnes femmes and Burgundian urban elites” at Centre Georges Chevrier, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France June 1998 (109) Invited Lecture, “Toni Morrison’s Tricksters” University of Coimbra, Portugal November 1998 (110) Invited Paper, “Open Endings and Family Connections: The Unfinished Story of a Burgundian Women’s Conduct Book,” MLA Convention San Francisco Dec. 1998 (111) Invited Presider, Session on “Medieval Self-Fashioning: Creating Social Identities in Medieval England” Kalamazoo Medieval Congress May 1999 (112) Paper (with Pamela Sheingom), “Appropriating the Saint: The Cultural Work of Miracle Collections” Leeds Medieval Conference, England July 1999 (113) Session designer and Respondent, “Re-crossing Borders: Assessing American Multi-ethnic Society and Literature back ‘Home’” American Studies Association Montreal Oct. 28-31, 1999 (114) Invited Lecture, Classical & Medieval Lecture Series, Bates College April 6, 2000 (115) Paper, “Ideologies of Reception and Appropriated Books of Hours” Session on Recycling and Re-Use: Economies of Book Production” Kalamazoo Medieval Conference May 2000 (116) Invited Lecture, “Pagans vs. Christians in Beowulf?” for Beowulf Weekend Maine Humanities Council -Bowdoin College March 3, 2001 (117) Invited Lecture, “Formation de l’identité familiale dans les Livres d’Heures du seizième siècle” at Centre Georges Chevrier, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France May 2001

16 (118) Plenary Lecture, “Willing Wealth: The Affluent of Burgundy, 1500- 1640” Medieval and Renaissance Convivium at Siena College Oct.12, 2001 (119) Plenary Lecture, “Previews of Coming Attractions: First Articulations of a Bourgeois Ideology” (1300-1600) MidAmerica Medieval Conference Manhattan, KS February 23, 2002 (120) Invited Talk, “Medieval Cultural Studies” English Dept. Kansas State University February 22, 2002 (121) Paper, “Ideologies of Marriage in Chaucer and Medieval Conduct Books” Chaucer Society Congress, Boulder, Colorado July 18, 2002 (122) Invited Lecture, “The Monitory Mate: Moral Relationships within Marriage in Medieval and Early Modem Conduct Literature,” University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill October 3, 2002 (123) Public Lecture for Kemp Distinguished Visiting Professorship “The Career of Foy -- Child Trickster Saint of Medieval Conques” Davidson College October 17, 2002 (124) Paper, “Trangressing Boundaries: Comparing Epic Saints’ Plays in English and French,” MLA Convention New York City December 28, 2002 (125) Invited Lecture, “How Wills Write Lives: Burgundian Testators as Autobiographers” Portraits and Biographies series Ohio State University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, January 17, 2003 (126) Plenary lecture, “Appropriation in Native American Autobiography: Apess and Momaday” American Studies conference University of Lisbon May 6, 2003 (127) Talk, “Reconstructing the Lives of Burgundian Bourgeois” (1400-1650) at Maine Medievalists Association meeting Bowdoin College November 1, 2003 (128) Invited Slide-lecture, “The Cult of Sainte Foy at Conques” Seminar on Pilgrimage Colby College Waterville, ME February 17, 2004 (129) Invited paper, “Working in Burgundian Archives and Libraries” CARA session, Kalamazoo Medieval Congress Kalamazoo, Michigan May 6, 2004 (130) “Patronage and the Cultural Work of the Saint: Sainte Foy across Europe” Hagiography Society Symposium Budapest, Hungary June 24, 2004 (131) “The Politics of Playing Herod in Burgundy” Societé Internationale pour l’Etude du Théâtre Medieval Elx, Spain August 10, 2004 (132) “Hagiographic Autobiography,” Special Session, “How to do Things with Saints: New Approaches to Female Holiness in Late Medieval Europe” MLA Convention Philadelphia, PA December 28, 2004 (133) Invited lecture, “Hérode à Beaune: fêtes de Noël et enjeux politiques,” Centre beaunois d’études historiques Beaune, France June 11, 2005 (134) Invited paper, “A Heretic in our Midst: Case study of a mid-sixteenth- century Protestant convert, his family, and the community in Burgundy” Sixteenth century Conference Atlanta, GA, October 22, 2005 (135) Invited paper, Session on “Medieval Autobiography and Hybrid Genres” MLA Convention Washington D.C. December 29, 2005 (136) Invited paper, “The wall paintings of Horsham Saint Faith, Norfolk,: Secular Patronage and Monastic Memory” for a conference “Out of the stream: New perspectives in the study of medieval and early modern mural paintings” University of Lisbon, Portugal March 31, 2006 (137) Invited lecture, “Pilgrimages in the Middle Ages” Maine Humanities Council 30th Anniversary Celebration Bates College Oct. 21, 2006

17 (138) Invited lecture, “Canterbury Tales as Chaucer’s Magnum Opus” Maine Humanities Council Winter Weekend Bowdoin College March 9-10, 2007 (139) Invited participant, Session on “Critical Approaches to Hagiographical Sources: the Libri Miraculorum” Kalamazoo Medieval Congress May 12, 2007 (140) Invited lecture, “Improvising Ritual on the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela,” for “Re- placing Ceremony and Ritual,” Research Seminar Lancaster, England April 25, 2008 (141) Invited lecture, “Art and Ritual of Pilgrimage” Colby College October 7, 2008 (142) Invited lecture, “Hugging the Saint: Art and Ritual on the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela” University of Akron October 13, 2008 (143) “Growing up Female in Lobito” Narrating the Portuguese Diaspora Conference Lisbon, Portugal October 24, 2008 (144) Invited lecture, “Abigail Mathieu: Bienfaitrice de Chalon” Société d’histoire and Association Abigail Mathieu Chalon s/Saône , France June 11, 2009 (145) Invited paper, “Scripts for Funeral Theater: Burgundian Testaments and the Performance of Social Identities” Session on Women and Testamentary Practice Western Society for French History Boulder, Co Oct. 22-25, 2009 (146) Invited lecture, “Hugging the Saint” Conference on Pilgrimage University of the South Sewanee, TN April 10, 2010 (147) Invited lecture, “Les cultes de sainte Foy dans l’Europe médiévale” European Center for the Study of Romanesque Culture Conques, France June 11, 2010 (148) Invited plenary speaker, “Pilgrimage and Festive Culture” Workshop on Pilgrimage Studies (to launch an international consortium) Georgetown University Washington D.C. Feb. 19, 2011 (149) Invited lecture, “Hugging the Saint” University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA February 23, 2011 (150) Invited speaker, “Chivalric Performance in its Urban Bourgeois Context: The Pas d’Armes de la Fontaine de Plours, Chalon-sur-Saone, Burgundy (1449-50)” Sewanee, TN April 8-9, 2011 (151) Invited speaker, “Mankind: The Omnibus Text,” TEAMS session on Medieval Drama International Medieval Congress Kalamazoo, MI May 13, 2011 (152) Invited lecture, “The Trickster in World Literature” Renaissance Weekend Santa Monica, CA February 18, 2012 (153) Lecture, “Joan of Arc in History and Film” – event with Choral Arts Society performance “ Voices of Light” accompanying silent film on Joan of Arc USM Sept. 29, 2012 (154) Conference paper, “Conques – Ideological center of Sainte Foy’s Territories” at “Saints’Cults and the Dynamic of Regional Cohesion,” Dubrovnik, Croatia October 18-20, 2012 (155) Conference paper, “Wolves, the Butchers and the Beaune Town Council” International Medieval Congress Kalamazoo, MI May 12, 2013 (156) Conference paper, “Appropriating the Cults of Sainte Foy in Europe” New College Medieval-Renaissance Conference Sarasota, FL March 5-8, 2014 (157) Invited lecture, “The New Way of Saint James” Newman Lunch Colgate University, Hamilton, NY September 15, 2014 (158) Invited lecture, “Goal and Process in Pilgrimage” Humanities Symposium Colgate University Hamilton, NY September 15, 2014 (159) Discussant, MRDS Roundtable: “Changing Scenes – Production Then and Now” Medieval Congress Kalamazoo, MI May 16, 2015

18 (160) Paper, ”Making the Case for ‘Appropriation’” MRDS Session: “Expanding the Canon” Medieval Congress Kalamazoo, MI May 14-17, 2015 (161) Paper, “”Psalm-singing at home – the case of Etienne Mathieu, a Burgundian Protestant” Conference: Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800 Saint Catherine’s College, Cambridge, England July 9-11, 2015 (162) Invited paper, “Provocative Processions,” in Session on The Art of Assembly- Urban Space and Crowd Control in the Middle Ages College Art Association, Washington, D.C. February 3, 2016 (163) Paper, “Bourgeois Families Under Stress” in Session on The Functions and Dysfunctions of the Medieval and Renaissance Family” Medieval Congress Kalamazoo, MI May 2016 (164) Invited Respondent, MRDS Session on Appropriation Medieval Congress Kalamazoo, MI May 2016 (165) Paper, “Conversion During the French Religious Wars: The Challenge of Documenting Subjectivity” Sixteenth-Century Conference Bruges, Belgium August 20, 2016 (166) Paper on “Transformations of a Saint: Sainte Foy and her Cults” Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI May 2017 (167) Keynote speaker at “Performance, Culture and the Book: A Colloquium Honoring the Work of Claire Sponsler University of Iowa Aug. 25, 2017

FUTURE PRESENTATIONS

Nov. 5, 2017 – Invited speaker on the “Mystere de Saint Martin at Seurre (1496)” Colloque sur la figure martinienne Tours, France

May 2018 – Panelist, “What’s in a Name? A Roundtable on Names, Nicknames, and Identity in the Middle Ages,” International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, MI

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