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Sarah Stanbury [email protected] Monsignor Murray Professor in the Arts and Humanities Department of English College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA 01610 Tel: 401-751-7633 COURSES: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Sex and Gender in the Middle Ages, Animal Fiction and Fable, Thirteen Ways of Looking at Things, Medieval Dream Visions, Medieval Romance, Critical Reading and Writing. EDUCATION M.A, Ph.D. Duke University (English) B.A. Bennington College (Literature) ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2012- Monsignor Murray Professor in the Arts and Humanities 1997-1999 Chair of English Department 1992- English Department, College of the Holy Cross. Tenured in 1996 1984-1992 Lecturer, English Department, Tufts University Spring, 1990 Visiting Assistant Professor, Tufts University 1989, 1990 Visiting Assistant Professor, Writing Program, Wellesley College 1978-1982 Instructor, English Department, Northeastern University GRANTS AND AWARDS 2014 Holy Cross Summer Course Development Grant 2014 Holy Cross Research and Publication Award 2013 Holy Cross Research and Publication Award 2012 Faculty Fellowship, Holy Cross (awarded 2010) 2011-‘12 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (for 2011) 2010 Guggenheim, Radcliffe Institute and NEH Fellowship applications 2009 Ford (Batchelor) Summer Fellowship 2006-‘07 Hewlett-Mellon Award for Sophomore Honors Seminar, 2005-‘07 O’Leary Faculty Recognition Award 2005-‘06 Holy Cross Research and Publication Award Jan-May ‘04 Faculty Fellowship, Holy Cross Jan-June ‘00 Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge University 1 2000 Holy Cross Research and Publication Award 1999 Holy Cross Research and Publication Award 1998-1999 NEH “Teaching with Technology” Focus Grant. Project Director. With Virginia Raguin. Project Title: “Mapping Margery Kempe in the Medieval World.” (Web project Jan-May ‘98 Faculty Fellowship, Holy Cross 1997 Holy Cross Hewlett-Mellon Award (with V. Raguin) 1996 Holy Cross Research and Publication Award 1995 Holy Cross Research and Publication Award 1994 Holy Cross Research and Publication Award 1991 NEMLA (New England Modern Language Association) Women's Caucus Award for Best Essay on Women, Language, and literature. 1988 NEH Summer Stipend. Project Title: "Chaucer's Criseyde and the Erotics of the female Gaze" PUBLICATIONS BOOKS The Italian Presepe: Cultural Landscapes of the Soul. Exhibition Catalog. Co-edited with Margot Balboni. Worcester, MA: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, 2014. The Visual Object of Desire in Late Medieval England. University of Pennsylvania Press, Middle Ages Series, 2008. Women’s Space: Patronage, Place and Gender in the Medieval Church. Co-edited with Virginia Raguin. SUNY Press, 2005. Pearl, An Edition. TEAMS Middle English Texts Series, Medieval Institute Publications, 2001. Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory. Co-edited with Katie Conboy and Nadia Medina. Columbia University Press, 1997. Korean translation 2000. Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature. Co-edited with Linda Lomperis. University of Pennsylvania Press, New Cultural Studies Series, 1993. Seeing the Gawain-Poet: Description and the Act of Perception. University of Pennsylvania Press, Middle Ages Series, 1991. WEBSITE 2 Mapping Margery Kempe: A Guide to Late Medieval Material and Spiritual Life. Project supported by NEH “Teaching With Technology” Focus Grant, 1998-99. With Virginia Raguin. Travel to UK in 1998, 1999 to research project. Site location: http://www.holycross.edu/kempe. EDITED JOURNAL Medieval Feminist Forum. General Editor, 30 (2000) and 31 (2001). Special Topic: “Feminist Legacies: Female Medieval Scholars and the Academy.” EXHIBIT The Italian Presepe: Cultural Landscapes of the Soul. Co-curated with Margot Balboni. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, September 3-December 15, 2014. PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING ARTICLES “Nostalgia and the Repair of Place: A Nativity Scene in St. Peter’s Square.” Interfaces, spring 2014; Shorter version in The Italian Presepe: Cultural Landscapes of the Soul. Co-edited with Margot Balboni. Exhibition Catalog. Worcester, MA: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, 2014. Pp. 7-19. “Mid-Life Sex and the BBC Wife of Bath.” Contributed to volume in preparation on Chaucer and film. Edited by Kathleen Kelly and Tison Pugh. “The Bourgeois Bedroom in Alabaster Adorations of the Kings.” Contributed to Alabaster Sculpture in Medieval England: A Reassessment. Edited by Jessica Brantley, Stephen Perkinson, and Elizabeth Teviotdale. “ ‘Quy la?’: Architectural Interiors, the Counting House, and Chaucer’s Shipman’s Tale.” Under review in Chaucer: Visual Approaches. Edited by Susanna Fein and David Raybin. Penn State University Press, 2016. “Multilingual Lists and Chaucer’s ‘Former Age.’ ” Forthcoming in The Art of Vision. Edited by Johnston, Knapp, and Rouse. Ohio University Press, 2016. Pp. 45-69. “Posthumanist Theory and the Premodern Animal Sign.” Postmedieval: a Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 2 (2011): 101–114. "Derrida's Cat and Nicholas's Study." New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 155-67. “Prufrock and the Ether Dome.” Time Present: The Newsletter of the T.S. Eliot Society 71 (Summer 2010): 1. (Also in “The Man of Law’s Tale and Rome”). “The Man of Law’s Tale and Rome.” Exemplaria 22 (Summer 2010): 118-37. 3 “The Gawain-Poet.” In The Cambridge Companion to Middle English Literature. Ed. Larry Scanlon. Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. 139-51. “Feminizing Pathos: Nicholas Love’s Mirror and Mel Gibson’s Passion.” In The Four Modes of Seeing: Honoring Madeline H. Caviness. Ashgate, 2007. Pp. 515-29. “The Embarrassments of Romance.” Arthuriana (2008): 112-15. “Host Desecration, the Prioress’s Tale, and Prague 1389.” In Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Kirk. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler. Palgrave, 2006. Pp. 314-34. “Margery Kempe.” Entry in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Margaret Schaus. Routledge, 2006. “Gender and Voice in Middle English Religious Lyrics.” In Companion to the Middle English Lyric. Ed. Thomas Duncan. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2005. Pp. 227- 41. “Margery Kempe and the Arts of Self Patronage.” In Women’s Space: Patronage, Place and Gender in the Medieval Church. Ed. Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury. Albany,NY: SUNY, 2005. Pp. 75-103. “EcoChaucer: Green Ethics and Medieval Nature.” The Chaucer Review, 39 (2004): 1-16. “The Clock in Filippino Lippi’s Annunciation Tondo.” Studies in Iconography, 25 (2004): 197- 219. “The Body.” Entry in the Supplement to the Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Ed. William Chester Jordan et al. Scribners, 2004. Pp. 67-71. “The Vivacity of Images: St. Katherine, Knighton’s Lollards, and the Breaking of Idols.” In Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm. Ed. Nicolette Zeeman, Jeremy Dimmick, and James Simpson. Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 131-50. “Vernacular Nostalgia and the Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature.” Texas Studies in Language and Literature. 44 (2002): 92-107. (Revision of 2001 Studies in the Age of Chaucer essay). “Vernacular Heroics and the Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 24 (2001): 495-502. “Visualizing.” In The Blackwell Chaucer Companion. Ed. Peter Brown. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Pp. 459-79. “Regimes of the Visual in Premodern England. Gaze, Body, and Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale.” NLH, 28 (1997): 261-290. 4 “Women Scholars and Professional Mentoring.” Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Newsletter, Fall 1996. Entry on "Medieval Literature" for Feminist Literary Theory: A Dictionary. Ed. Beth Kowaleski- Wallace. Garland, 1996. "The Body and the City in Pearl." Representations 47 (Fall 1994): 23-39. "Women's Letters and Private Space in Chaucer." Exemplaria 6 (1994): 271-285. "Feminist Masterplots: The Gaze on the Body of Pearl's Dead Girl." In Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature. Ed. Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. "The Lover's Gaze in Troilus and Criseyde." In Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: Current Essays in Criticism. Ed. R. A. Shoaf. MRTS, 1992. "The Virgin's Gaze: Spectacle and Transgression in Middle English Lyrics of the Passion." PMLA, 106 (October 1991): 1083-1093. (Winner of the 1991 NEMLA Woman's Caucus Award for best entry in Women, Language, and Literature). "The Voyeur and the Private Life in Troilus and Criseyde." Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 13 (1991): 141-158. "Feminist Film Theory Seeing Chrétien's Enide." Literature and Psychology, 36 (1990): 47-66. "In God's Sight: Vision and Sacred History in Purity." In Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives on the Pearl-Poet. Ed. Robert J. Blanch, Miriam Youngman Miller, and Julian N. Wasserman. Whitston, 1991. Pp. 105-116. "Pearl and the Idea of Jerusalem." Mediaevalia et Humanistica, 16 (1988): 117-131. "Visions of Space: Acts of Perception in Pearl and in Some Late Medieval Illustrated Apocalypses." Mediaevalia, 10 (1984/1988): 133-158. "Space and Visual Hermeneutics in the Gawain-Poet." The Chaucer Review, 21 (1987): 476-489. "Game in Myn Hood: The Traditions of a Comic Proverb." Studies in Iconography, 9 (1983): 1- 12. "Cupid's Sight in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women." Centerpoint, 4 (1981): 95-102. "Folce to Frofre: The Theme of Consolation in Beowulf." The American Benedictine Review, 30 (1979): 191-204. 5 "'Adam Lay I-Bowndyn' and the Vinculum Amoris." English Language Notes, 15 (1977): 98- 101. BOOK REVIEWS Lisa Cooper, Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England. In Speculum (Feb. 2013).