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.
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“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).
George Edmondson, The Neighboring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson. In Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Vol. 34 (2012).
Helen Phillips, ed. Chaucer and Religion. In The Medieval Review (Electronic journal) (Mar. 2011).
Diana Webb, Privacy and Solitude in the Middle Ages. In Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. (Electronic journal) (Mar. 2010).
Katherine C. Little. Confession and Resistance: Defining the Self in Late Medieval England. Modern Philology. In Modern Philology (Nov. 2009).
Scott Lightsey, Manmade Marvels in Medieval Literature and Culture. In Speculum (Oct. 2009).
Karen Winstead. John Capgrave’s Fifteenth Century. In Speculum (2008).
Emma Campbell and Robert Mills. Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image. In JEGP (Jan 2008).
John Burrow. Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative. In Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2004).
Karen Winstead. Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends. In Speculum (2003).
Fiona Somerset. Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England. InStudies in the Age of Chaucer (2002).
Carolyn Collette. Species, Phantasms, and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in the Canterbury Tales. In Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2002).
Karma Lochrie. Peggy McCracken and James M. Schultz, eds. Constructing Medieval Sexuality. In Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2000).
Catherine S. Cox. Gender and Language in Chaucer. In Speculum (1999).
Norman Klassen. Chaucer on Love, Knowledge and Sight. In Speculum (1999).
6 Sandra Pierson Prior. The Pearl Poet Revisited. In Speculum (1997).
Susan L. Smith. The Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature. In Modern Language Review (1997).
Jane Chance. Medieval Mythography. In Arthuriana (1996).
A. C. Spearing. The Medieval Poet as Voyeur. In JEGP (1994).
Carolyn Dinshaw. Chaucer's Sexual Poetics. In Envoy (1992).
Lynn Staley Johnson. The Voice of the Gawain-Poet. In Cithara (1986).
INVITED LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA
“Medieval Objects and the Liberal Arts.” Keynote lecture at the Transylvania Seminar: Twenty- First Century Liberal Education: A Contested Concept. Transylvania University, Lexington KY, July 2014.
“Chaucer, Burgeis Domesticity, and the Matter of Walls.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May, 2013.
Participant at “A Thing of the Past: Material Evidence and the Writing of Medieval England’s Past.” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, May 16-18, 2013.
Prequel at Session on “Medieval Archives” at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America. Knoxville, Tennessee, April 2013.
"Chaucer's Interiors." Keynote Address at the New England Medieval Conference, Amherst, MA, October, 2012.
“Maps: Geohumanities and the Surface.” Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Portland, OR, July 2012.
"Alabasters at Home: The Chamber." International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May 2012.
"Chaucer at Home: Quy La?" Harvard's English Department Medieval Colloquium, October 2011.
Plenary Panel, Conference on Animals and Humans in the Culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Barnard College, December 2010.
“Derrida’s Cat and the Manciple’s Bird: Posthuman Theory and the Premodern Animal Real.” University of Missouri, October, 2010; University of Wisconsin, November, 2010.
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"Derrida's Cat." New Chaucer Society International Convention, Siena, July 2010.
“Teaching Dream at a Liberal Arts College.” Symposium in Honor of Huston Diehl, University of Iowa, May, 2010.
“Chaucer’s Creole Things” Art of Vision conference at the Free University of Berlin. Feb. 2010.
““Nicholas’ Study and Petrarch’s Cat.” Invited talk at the University of Iowa, Oct. 2010, and the University of Missouri, Nov. 2010.
Respondent at session on medieval relics, May 2009, International Congress at Kalamazoo.
“The Man of Law’s Tale and Rome.” Bloomington, Indiana, Oct. 2008. Symposium on “The Medieval Thing.”
“Chaucer’s Constance: Translations of a Roman Relic.” Boulder, Colorado, Feb. 2008. Conference on “Sacred and Devotional Objects East/West.”
“Chaucer’s Study: Things in Their Places.” Invited talk at Chaucer Division Meeting, MLA, Chicago, 2007; also keynote address at Rutgers University, February, 2007.
“Lydgate’s Pictures.” York, July 2007. Conference on “Visual Representations of Medieval Spirituality.”
“Promiscuous Object: The Man of Sorrows in Late Medieval England.” Rutgers University, February 2006.
“Chaucer and the Image Debate, 1392-1400.” Plenary lecture at the London Chaucer Conference, University College, London, March 30, 2005.
“Host Desecration, the Prioress’s Tale, and Prague 1389.” Plenary lecture at the Graduate Student Medieval Conference, Brown University, Oct. 2004.
“Living Images in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Legend of Good Women.” New England Medieval Conference, Trinity College, Hartford, Oct. 2004.
“Nicholas Love’s Mirror and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.” University of Melbourne, April 2004.
“Dead Images and the Life of Christ: Nicholas Love and the Image Debate.” Harvard Medieval Doctoral Conference, February 2004.
“Vernacular Piety and the Prioress’s Tale.” Revisiting Chaucer and Christianity Conference, Canterbury UK, July 2003.
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“The Clock in Filippino Lippi’s Annunciation Tondo.” Christianity and Culture Conference, New Haven, October 2002.
“Premodern Fetishes: Saints and their Objects.” New England Medieval Conference, Dartmouth College, October 2001.
“The Katherine Wheel: Image, Idol, Fetish.” New England Medieval Conference, Yale University, October 2000 and Harvard University English Department Doctoral Conference, November 2000.
“The Cult of St. Katherine.” onference on Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England. King’s College Conference Center, Cambridge, UK. June, 1999.
“Seductions of the Dark Image in Hilton’s Scale of Perfection.” University of Rochester, April 1999 and at Colgate University, October 1998:
“Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale as Sacramental Theater.” Comparative Literature Conference, Rutgers University, April 1998.
“The Mechanical Clock in Filippino Lippi’s Annunciation Tondo.” Cantor Gallery Talk Series to accompany exhibit, “From Time to Time,” October 1997.
“Margery Kempe and the Arts of Self Patronage.” University of Connecticut, Fall 1995 and at University of Southern Maine, May 1996.
"Spectacular Bodies and Chaucer's Body Politic." Harvard Medieval Doctoral Conference, Feb. 1995.
"Spectacular Bodies and Chaucer's Body Politic." Northeastern Univ., November 1994.
"Psychoanalysis and Medieval Literature." Respondent at session at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 1994.
“The Gaze on the Body of Pearl’s Dead Girl.” Harvard Medieval Doctoral Conference. October 1991.
“The Voyeur and the Private Life in Troilus and Criseyde.” Harvard Medieval Doctoral Conference. Oct. 1990.
"Feminist Film Theory and Medieval Literature." Rhode Island College, April, 1990 and at NEMLA, April, 1990.
“Glymsyng’ and “Parfit Sighte: Ocular Skepticism in Chaucer.” Harvard Medieval Doctoral Conference, April, 1987.
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CONFERENCE TALKS AND SESSIONS ORGANIZED AND CHAIRED
“Disruptive Innovation in Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale: the Tools.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, 2015.
“Things of the Bedchamber.” Collaborative paper at “Things of the Past” Conference, Ann Arbor MI, June 2015.
“Roundtable: How to Do Things with Form.” Respondent. 19th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, July 2014.
“Chaucer’s Creole Things.” MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 2009.
“Medieval Animal Theory a Symposium.” Organized and hosted in Little Compton, RI, Sept. 2009.
“Love of Ruins, Desire for Things.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo MI, May 2007.
“Teaching Medieval Pilgrimage.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2007. (Respondent)
“Fifty Years of Feminist Criticism.” Session organized for the Chaucer Division, MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 2007
“Close Reading Chaucer.” Respondent. New Chaucer Society, New York, July 2006.
“Promiscuous Object: The Man of Sorrows in Fifteenth-Century England.” International Congress at Kalamazoo, MI. May 2006.
“Domestic Space.” Session organizer at Medieval Academy Conference, April 2006.
“Cloaks of Invisibility: The Status of Arthurian Studies.” Panelist. MLA, Washington, DC. Dec. 2005.
Session chair at New England Medieval Conference, October 2005.
Session chair at “Confession” Conference, Harvard University, September 2005.
“The Prague Jewry and the Prioress’s Tale: City, Body, and the Eucharistic Host.” New Chaucer Society, Glasgow, July 2004.
“The Gaze: A Retrospective.” Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May 2004.
10 “Dead Images and the Life of Christ: Nicholas Love and the Image Debate.” Medieval Academy Conference, April 2004.
“The Clock in Filippino Lippi’s Annunciation Tondo.” International Word and Image Conference, College of the Holy Cross, June 2001.
Participant at roundtable on teaching the Pearl-poems, International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May 2001.
Organizer for Chaucer Division Meeting, “Visual Chaucer.” MLA, San Francisco, December 1999. Presider at forum: “Millennial Chaucer 1400/2000.”
“Historical Imperatives: The New Cambridge History of Middle English Literature.” MLA Convention, December 1999.
Panelist at “Dating the Poems of Cotton Nero A.x.: A Roundtable Discussion about the Pearl- Poet’s Manuscript.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May 1999.
“St. Katherine: Class and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May 1999.
Organizer and presider at session, “Visual Chaucer,” at MLA Convention, December 1998.
“The Prioress’s Tale as Sacramental Theater.” New Chaucer Society Conference, Paris, July 1998.
“Mapping Margery Kempe: The Website.” With Virginia Raguin. International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, May 1998.
“Seductions of the Dark Image in Hilton’s Scale of Perfection.” Fordham Medieval Conference, April 1998.
“Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale as Sacramental Theater.” Medieval Comparative Literature Division Meeting. MLA Convention, Toronto, December 1997.
“Masculine Play in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.” New Chaucer Society Meeting, July 1996.
“The Despenser Retable and 1381.” International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, May 1996, and Harvard University, Fall 1996.
Invited organizer for Division Meeting, "Chaucerian Family Romance." Chaucer Division Meeting, MLA, Dec. 1995.
“Troilus and Criseyde and the Trojan Royal House.” Chaucer Division Meeting, MLA, Dec. 1995
11 "Gender and Connoisseurship in Late Medieval Devotion." International Medieval Congress at Leeds, July 1995.
Invited organizer for session, "Gender, Authority, and the Gaze." Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy, April 1995.
Chair of session on Pearl-Poet, International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May 1995
“Who Do I Turn To? Women Scholars and Professional Mentoring.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May 1995.
"The Private Eyes of Women." International Meeting of the New Chaucer Society, Dublin, July 1994.
"Christ's Body and Family Values." International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1994.
"Julian of Norwich and the Politics of Spectacle." Southeastern Medieval Association, New Orleans, Sept. 1993.
"Reading in the John: Privacy and the Shaping of the Chaucerian Subject." New Chaucer Society Meeting, August, 1992.
"The Body, the Gaze, and the Journey to Jerusalem." Middle English Literature Division Meeting, MLA Convention, December, 1991 and at Univ. of Rochester, Feb. 1992.
Session organizer, “Cultural Contexts for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: History and Ideology.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May 1991.
"When the Woman Looks: Theorizing the Woman's Gaze in Medieval Literature." Skidmore College, Oct. 1990 and at the University of Connecticut, November, 1990.
"Viewers and Voyeurs: The Ocular Hermeneutics of Troilus and Criseyde." International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, 1989.
“The Virgin’s Gaze Middle English Lyrics of the Passion.” Harvard Medieval Doctoral Conference, Feb, 1989.
"Transgression and the Spectator: The Gendered Gaze in Middle English Passion Lyrics." Medieval Comparative Literature Division Meeting, MLA Convention, December, 1988.
"Chaucer's Criseyde and the Erotics of the Female Gaze." International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May, 1988.
Session organizer, “The Body as Spectacle in Medieval Literature.” MLA Convention, Dec. 1987.
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Session organizer, “Acts of Perception: Ocular Traditions from Chaucer to Shakespeare.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May, 1986.
“Image, Perception, and Belief: The Theme of Ocular Skepticism in Chaucer’s Poetry.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May 1986.
“The Spatial Frame of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo. May 1985.
“Space and Visual Hermeneutics in the Gawain-Poet.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May 1984.
“Pearl and the Late Medieval Apocalypse.” International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, May 1983.
Session organizer, “The Medieval English Manuscript: Illustration and Text.” MLA Convention. December 1980.
Session organizer, “Sources for the Gawain-Poet: Gifts, Games, and the Decorative Arts.” MLA Convention, Dec. 1979.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND SERVICE
Boards and Steering Committees
Trustee of the New Chaucer Society, 2014-2016
Bingham Board of Trust, Transylvania University, 2014-
Bingham Selection Committee, Transylvania University 2010-2014; Chair, 2012-13
Chaucer Division representative to the Delegate Assembly, MLA, 2008-10
New England Medieval Conference, President, 2008.Organizing Committee 2003-05 for conference in Worcester MA, Oct. 2005; Host for Steering Committee Meeting at Holy Cross, October, 2007
Medieval Academy Meeting, Steering Committee, Cambridge MA, April 2006
Chaucer Division of the Modern Language Association, Executive Committee, 1996-2001, Chair, 1999-2000 Organizer for MLA Chaucer Division Meeting, 1999
Editorial Board: Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, 1997-2001
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The Medieval Academy The New Chaucer Society
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