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 France 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 Saints (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). 1 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 Conques”(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 Saint 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. 3 “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