CURRICULUM VITAE
JANE CHANCE 7/24/07
Address (mailing):
Department of English-MS 30
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
6100 Main St. (if FedX or UPS)
Houston, TX 77251-1892 (or 77005-1892, if FedX)
(home)
2306 Wroxton Rd.
Houston, TX 77005-1538
(office)
235 Herring Hall
Telephone:
(713) 348-2625 (office)
(713) 348-4840 (dept. secretary)
(713) 524-3282 (home)
(713) 348-5991 (office fax)
E-mail:
Web Page:
[email protected]
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance
EDUCATION:
B. A. with Highest Distinction and Honors in English
A. M. in English
Ph.D. in English
Purdue University
University of Illinois
University of Illinois
June 1967
June 1968
October 1971
FIELDS OF INTEREST:
Medieval myth-reception; women, gender, and sexuality in the Middle Ages; feminist
medievalist historiography; medievalism (Tolkien, film studies); Middle English Literature;
Geoffrey Chaucer; Christine de Pizan
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Director, Medieval Studies Program and Workshop, Rice University
2005-7, 1987-92
Professor of English, Medieval Studies, and Women and the Study of Gender, Rice
University
1980Associate Professor of English (with tenure), Rice University
1977-1980
Assistant Professor of English, Rice University
1973-1977
Lecturer and Assistant Professor of English, University of Saskatchewan
1971-1973
ACADEMIC HONORS:
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Fellowships:
NEH Fellowship, Center for Medieval Studies, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri n(for
Medieval Mythography, vol. 3), Feb. 16-March 21, 2003.
Mellon Fellowship, Vatican Film Library, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, (for
Medieval Mythography, vol. 3), March 22-April 12, 2003.
Rice University Senior Nominee, NEH Summer Stipend Competition (for Medieval
Mythography, vol. 3), 2001, 2006
Fellowship, Humanities Research Center, Rice University (for Medieval Mythography, vol. 2),
Fall, 1998
Eccles Research Fellow, University of Utah O. C. and Grace Tanner Humanities Center, Salt
Lake City, Utah (for Medieval Mythography, vol. 2) 1994-95
Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Edinburgh, Institute for Advanced Studies in the
Humanities, Edinburgh, Scotland (for Medieval Mythography, vol. 2), May 27-July 23,
1994
Membership, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J. (for
Medieval Mythography), 1988-89
Mellon Fellowship, Rice University Academic Leave, 1988-89
Resident Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy (for Medieval
Mythography), July 1988
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (for Medieval Mythography), 198081
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research (for
Medieval Mythography), 1977-78
Honorary Research Fellowship, University College, London (for Medieval Mythography) 197778
University of Illinois Dissertation Fellowship (Top NDEA IV Dissertation Fellowship candidate
university-wide), 1970-71
NDEA IV Fellowship (University of Illinois), 1967-70
Purdue University Graduate Fellowship (declined),1967-68
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Semi-finalist, 1966
Directorships:
Co-Director, with Dr. Mark Kuras, for Workshop on “The Lord of the Rings: The Quest for
Meaning in Our Postmodern World,” Jung Foundation, New York City, NY, April 6,
2002.
Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College Teachers on
“The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women,” Rice University, Houston, TX
June 9-July 18, 1997
Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers on "Chaucer and Mythography,"1985
Prizes, Awards, and Other Honors:
Judge, Modern Language Association Selection Committee for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione
Prize and the Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work
2007-9
Plenary Lecturer, “From Marie de France to Christine de Pizan: Expressing the Female Voice,”
NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers at Historically Black Colleges on
“Masterpieces of World Literature,” Grambling State University, Grambling, Louisiana,
June 4-8, 2007.
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Best Essay Prize (awarded biennially), Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, for “Classical
Myth and Gender in the Letters of 'Abelard' and 'Heloise': Gloss, Glossed, Glossator,” in
Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman, edited by Bonnie
Wheeler, 161-85, Series on The New Middle Ages (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000),
awarded 2005.
Finalist, Mythopoeic Award in 2004 and 2005 for Scholarship on the Inklings, for Tolkien the
Medievalist (Routledge, 2003)
Honoree, Premiere, “Ringers: Lord of the Fans,” and Premiere Party at the Levi-Strauss Ranch,
Park City, UT, and Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, Jan. 21, 2005
Honoree, Annual Reception of the Association of Women Faculty, University of Texas Houston
Health Science Center, Houston, TX, Oct. 20, 2004
Plenary Lecture, “Tolkien and the Other: Gender and Race in Middle-earth,” NEH Summer
Institute for Teachers on “From Beowulf to Post-Modernism: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of
the Rings,” Texas A & M University-Commerce, June-July, 2004 (July 12-16, 2004, my
individual lectures July 14, 2004).
Plenary Lecture, “Tolkien and the Other: Race and Gender in Middle-earth,” at the Second
Annual Conference of the Hungarian Tolkien Society, on “J. R. R. Tolkien: Language,
Tradition, Interpretation,” at the English Institute of the University of Pécs, the Dept. of
Modern Literary History and Literary Theory, and the Students’ Union of the Pécs
Faculty of Arts, Pécs, Hungary, April 24, 2004.
V.I.P. Invitation to OneRingNet.Com Oscar Party, for Peter Jackson’s Return of the King,
American Legion of Honor, Hollywood, Feb. 29, 2004
Annual McMichael Lecture, on “Tolkien and the Other: Race and Gender in Middle-earth,” St.
Paul's Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Saturday, January 25, 2004; and Sunday
Adult Education Lecturer on “Tolkien on the Sexes,: Misogynist or Modern?” January
26, 2004.
Featured Speaker, “Tolkien’s Women (and Men): The Film and the Book,” and Moderator, Panel
on “Tolkien and War,” Tolkien Society Oxonmoot (Bilbo’s 111st Birthday), St. Hugh’s
College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003.
Plenary Lecture, "The Castration of Saturn and The Abuse of Kingship in Chaucer," for "Six
Centuries after the Deaths of Chaucer and Richard II," Tenth Annual Congress of the
Texas Medieval Association, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, Sept. 9, 2000.
Keynote Speech, "Christine de Pizan and the 'Remythisization' of Women," Medieval Studies
Forum, English Department, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.,
Sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan, April 21, 2000.
Listing, Who's Who in the World (Millennium Edition)
2000Nominee, Rice University Award for Outstanding Faculty Service to a Student Given by
Graduating Class, Senior Giving Award,
1998, 2000
Certificate of Achievement, Outstanding Efforts for Faculty Awareness and Advocacy, Texas
Faculty Association
1998
Winner, IMPACT Award for Outstanding Rice Faculty Woman, for Empowerment of Women,
Rice University Women’s Resource Center
1998
Semi-Plenary Lecture: “Fabulizing Subjectivity in the ‘Literature of Dissent’: The Classical
Gods in Late Medieval France and England,” Fourth Annual Meeting of the
International Society for Classical Studies, University of Tübingen, Tübingen,
Germany, Aug. 2, 1998.
Research Assistance, Pamela Highet, California State University-Chico Pre-doctoral Fellow,
CSU Pre-Doctoral Summer Research Grant,
Summer, 1997
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Nominee, IMPACT Award for Outstanding Rice Faculty Woman Award for Contributions to
Women, Rice University Women’s Resource Center
1997
Nominee, 1997 Brown Prize for Best Book, Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa
to the School of Chartres, Medieval Academy of America
Keynote Speech, "Reading Medieval Women," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance
Association, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, May 12, 1995.
Listing, Who's Who in America
19951994 SCMLA Book Award, for Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the
School of Chartres, AD 433-1177
1995
Annual Medieval Lecture, "St. Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval Britain: Feminizing Literary
Reception through Gender and Class," Sponsored by the Departments of English and
Women’s Studies, University of Texas, Austin, Tex., Dec. 1, 1994.
Pass with Distinction, Medieval Preliminary Exam (Ph.D.)
1970
Pass with Distinction, M.A. Comprehensive Exam
1968
Purdue University Literary Contest Prizes for Poetry, Literary Criticism,
Philosophy, and Shakespeare
1965-67
Polymnia First Prize, Undergraduate Poetry; Kneale Award, 2nd Prize, Essay on
Philosophy (Albert Camus’s Existentialism) and also Second Prize, Essay on Literary
Criticism (Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis) (1966); First Prizes, Poetry and the Kneale
Award, Literary Criticism (1967)
Alpha Lambda Delta, Theta Sigma Phi, Delta Rho Kappa (Fall, Junior Year), and Mortar Board
(Chapter Editor and Historian), Purdue University
1964-67
President's Honor Roll, Purdue University
1964-67
Grants:
Publication Subvention ($5000) for Women Medievalists and the Academy (University of
Wisconsin Press, May, 2005) from Rice University
Subsidy, Sagas and Societies Conference, European Culture 2000 Fund, Bogarnes, Iceland
Sept. 5-9, 2002
Rice University Research Grant, 2002-2008
Participant, Summer Institute on "Issues and Resources in Central Europe for Research on the
Middle Ages," Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest,
Hungary/Center for Medieval Studies, Charles University/Czech Academy of Sciences,
Prague/Committee for Centers and Regional Associations (CARA), Medieval Academy
of America, July 17-Aug. 10, 2000
Guggenheim Publication Subvention for Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to
the School of Chartres, AD 433-1177 (University Press of Florida) ($3000), 1992
ACLS Travel Grant, New Chaucer Society, York, England, 1984
Rice University Summer Research Grants, various, including 1984-86, 1992, 1994-2003, 2005-7
Rice University AY Research Grant,1984-1989
PUBLICATIONS:
Monographs, Editions, and Translations
Medieval Mythography, vol. 3: The Italian Renaissance, AD 1350-1475(contracted UPF) (in
progress)
The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women, The New Middle Ages Series (New York and
London, Palgrave/Macmillan Ltd., 2007), xiii +198 pp.+ index (224 pp).
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http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403969108
Womas as Hero in Old English Literature, 1986; Rpr. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers,
2005. http://www.wipfandstock.com/bookStore.cfm?bookID=2162&do=detail
The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power, revised and reprinted edition. Translated into
Japanese. (Tokyo, Japan: Hayakawa Shobo, 2003).
The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power, revised and reprinted edition (Lexington:
University of Kentucky Press, 2001), 162 pp. + xviii pp.
http://www.kentuckypress.com/viewbook.cfm?Category_ID=15&Group=51&ID=147
Tolkien’s Art: A Mythology for England, revised and reprinted edition (Lexington: University of
Kentucky Press, 2001), 262 pp. + xiv
pp.http://www.kentuckypress.com/viewbook.cfm?Category_ID=1&Group=51&ID=184
Medieval Mythography: From the School of Chartres to the Court at Avignon, AD 1177 to
1350; vol. 2 of Medieval Mythography (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000).
xxvi +517 pp.; 38 b & w photographs; 19 tables, chronology of medieval mythographers
and commentary authors. http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=CHANCF00
The Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulation of Sexual Politics (Minneapolis and London:
University of Minnesota Press, 1995): xxx + 373 pp., hyb and pb.
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/chance_mythographic.html
Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, AD 433 to 1177
(Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994): 731 pp. + xxx; 31 b & w photographs,
14 tables, chronology of medieval mythographers and commentary authors. Winner,
1994 SCMLA Best Book Award http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=CHANCS94
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power, Twayne Masterwork Studies, 99
(Boston: Macmillan /Twayne, 1992): xiv + 138 pp., hb and pb. OP
Ed. Assembly of Gods, or The Banquet of Resoun and Sensualyte. Middle English Texts Series,
The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, Inc. Kalamazoo, MI:. Medieval
Institute Publications/Western Michigan University, 1999. 155 + vii pp.
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/chance.htm
Christine de Pizan, The Letter of Othea to Hector, Translated, with Introduction and
Interpretative Essay, Focus Library of Medieval Women (Newburyport, Mass: Focus
Press, 1990): xii + 164 pp., pb; rpt. Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 1997.
http://www.boydell.co.uk/59914402.HTM
Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1986): 156 +
xviii, hb. and pb. OP
Tolkien's Art: A 'Mythology for England' (London, Macmillan Press Ltd; New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1979, rpt. Papermac Editions, 1980): 164 + x, hb. and pp. OP
The Genius Figure in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (New York and London: Columbia
University Press, 1975): 201 + xii pp. OP
Collected Books:
Ed., Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages, with Alfred Siewers, New Middle Ages Series (New York
and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). 264 pp. + index; ten illustrations.
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/Catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403969736
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1403969736/qid=1120620911/sr=11/ref=sr_1_1/002-2730118-7584015?v=glance&s=books
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Ed., Women Medievalists and the Academy (Madison and London: University of Wisconsin
Press, 2005). 1073 + xlvi pp. 72 illustrations plus chronology and index.
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/2949.htm
Ed., J. R. R. Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader (Lexington: University Press of
Kentucky, 2004; rpt. 2005). 340 pp. + xx
www.kentuckypress.com/viewbook.cfm?Category_ID=1&Group=51&ID=1124>
Ed., Tolkien the Medievalist, Routledge Studies in Medieval Culture and Religion, vol. 3
(London: Routledge Ltd., 2002; New York: Routledge, 2003). 295 pp. + xvi pp. Finalist
for Mythopoeic Award for Scholarship on the Inklings, 2004 and 2005.
http://www.routledgeny.com/books.cfm?isbn=0415289440&CFID=509927&CFTOKEN=42127939
Ed. Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996):
xvii+ 342 pp. Rpt. pb. Ingram Books, 2003.
http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=CHANCS96
Ed. Inklings and Others, vol. 3, no. 3 of Studies in Medievalism, printed in an annual volume
with no. 4 (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 1991):
225-392. http://www.boydell.co.uk/titlesaz.htm
Ed. The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and
England (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990): 319 pp. + index, hb; pb.
http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=CHANCS90
Ed. Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with Miriam Youngerman Miller
(New York: Modern Language Association, 1986; rpt. 1988, 1991): 243 + xii pp., hb.
and pb. http://www.mla.org/cgishl/hazel.exe?action=detail&template=bookinfo.html&item=AP09
Ed. Mapping the Cosmos, with R.O. Wells, Jr. (Houston, TX: Rice University Press, 1985): 175
+ viii pp.
Ed. Medievalism in the Twentieth Century, vol. 2, no. 1 of Studies in Medievalism (fall 1982),
106 pp.
Ed., Bard Literary Magazine (Fall, 1965 and Spring, 1966).
Other Invited (Guest) Lectures, Presentations, Readings, and Appearances:
New Book Reading/Lecture, “The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women,” Brigid’s Place,
ChristChurch Cathedral, Jan. 24, 2008.
New Book Reading/Lecture, “The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women,” Lincoln Public
Library, Grambling, LA, June 6, 2007.
Guest Lecture, “The Endless Endings of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings,” Rice University
Young Alumni Association, Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX, June 21,
2005.
Guest Lecture, “Tolkien and the Other: Gender and Race in Middle-earth,” Medieval Club/ Arts
and Lectures, California State University-San Marcos, CA, April 22, 2005.
Guest Lecture, “Saint Agnes and Constantia in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s Conversion Works
and Ælfric’s Anglo-Saxon Legend: Feminizing the Founding of the Early Church,”
Medieval Seminar Series, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Nottingham,
Nottingham, England, March 10, 2005.
Invited Lecture, “J. R. R. Tolkien, Scholar and Fantasist: `I am in fact a hobbit,’” Notable
Persons Stream, Rice Alumni Weekend, Rice University, Houston, TX, Feb. 26, 2005.
Guest Lecture, “Beowulf: The Hero and the Monster,” Houston Early Music Pre-Lecture, Trinity
Church, Houston, TX, February 11, 2005.
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Invited Lecture, “Beowulf and the Monsters,” for the “Medieval Life and Thought” course, Oct.
4-Nov. 22, 2004; 7:15-8:45 p.m., Office of Continuing Studies, Medieval Studies, and
Humanities Division, Rice University, Houston, TX, Monday, Nov. 8, 2004.
Guest Talk, “The Future of Tolkien Studies,” UNM Hobbit Society and Medieval Studies
Student Association, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 29,
2004.
Guest Lecture, “Out of Africa: Tolkien’s Anglo-Saxon Scholarship as a Window into Middleearth,” University of New Mexico Institute for Medieval Studies Outreach Seminar for
High School Teachers on “Of Heroes and Hobbits in the Works of Tolkien and
Beowulf,” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 29, 2004.
Featured Speaker, “Subversive Fantasist: Tolkien on Class Difference,” and book-signing,
Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings,
Marquette Libraries and Special Collections, Marquette University, Wisconsin, Oct. 2123, 2004.
Guest Lecture, “Tolkien and the Other: Race and Gender in Middle-earth” and “Tolkien’s
Women (and Men): The Films and the Book,” in a seminar on “Reading Tolkien and
Living the Virtues” (Month-long seminar funded by the Lilly Foundation and directed by
Ralph Wood), Baylor University, Waco, TX, Thursday, June 23, 2004.
Guest Lecture, “Tolkien’s Women (and Men): The Films and the Book,” English Department,
Károli Gáspár Protestant University, Budapest, Hungary, April 27, 2004.
Guest Lecture, “Tolkien’s Women (and Men): The Films and the Book,” at Pázmány Péter
Katolikus Egyetem University, Eger, Hungary, April 26, 2004.
Guest Lecture, “Out of Africa: Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon Scholarship as a Window into on Middle
Earth," in a Symposium on “J. R. R. Tolkien, Fantasist and Medievalist,” organized by
Chris Vaccaro, English Department, University of Vermont, March 6, 2004.
Guest of Honor, speaking in four panel discussions, on “Teaching Tolkien in the University,”
with Daniel Timmons and Michael Drout, and “The Women in Middle-earth,” Dec. 15,
2003; and “The Lord of the Rings: The Films vs. The Books” and “What is Tolkien’s
Mythology?” Dec. 17, 2003; at “The Gathering of the Fellowship,” Toronto, Canada,
Dec. 15-17, 2003.
Guest Lecture, “Tolkien and the Other: Gender and Race in Middle-earth,” Dallas Consortium of
Medievalists, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 4, 2003.
Guest Panelist, with Michael Drout, editor, Tolkien Journal, and Ted Sherman, editor, Mythlore,
at a symposium, “More than a Fantasy? Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages,” speaking on
“Tolkien and the Other: Race and Gender in Middle-earth,” Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, April 8, Monday, 2003; invited class lecture, “Tolkien and
Middle English Literature,” in “Chaucer and his Context”; panel on The Two Towers
(film), April 7, 2003.
Invited Lecture, “The Gendering of Mythography in the Late Middle Ages," NEH Lecture,
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri,
March 18, 2003.
Guest Lecture, Rice University Alumni College, on “Tolkien and the Re-Making of the Middle
Ages: The Film and the Book,” Medieval Fact and Fiction Track, Rice University,
Houston, TX, March 1, 2003.
Guest Lecture, “Tolkien and the Modern World,” Rice Alumnus Kirk Heyne’s 47th Birthday
Celebration, Courtlandt Place, Houston, Texas, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2003.
Guest Lecture, “Tolkien’s Women: The Film and the Book,” Houston Baptist University,
Houston, TX, Jan. 14, 2003.
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Guest Workshop Director, “The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power,” and Marathon
Reader, “The Two Towers: Marathon Reading Celebration,” English Dept., Cleveland
State University and The Edge Lutheran Campus Ministry, Ohio, Nov. 14, 15, 2002.
Guest Lecture, “Tolkien and Middle-earth,” Rice University Society of Women, St. Paul’s
Methodist Church, Houston, TX, Nov. 11, 2002.
Invited Lecture, “Filming an Epic: Peter Jackson’s Interpretation of Fellowship of the Ring.”
Rice University Alumni Group-Austin, Austin, Texas, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2002.
Guest Panelist, “Gender Summit: Toward Human Understanding,” with Canon Betty Adam,
Pastor Troy Plummer, and Pittman McGee, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, Texas,
September 24, 2002.
Guest Lecture, “Representing Rebellion: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and the Castration of Saturn,”
for “Medieval Literature, Languages and Culture: A Symposium in Memory of Professor
Margaret Schlauch (1898-1986),” School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poznań, Poland, organized by Sheila Delany and A. Jacek, May 13, 2002.
Invited Lecture, “Peter Jackson’s ‘Hobbito-Centric’ Fellowship of the Ring?” Rice University
Alumni Group, Denver, Colorado, Monday, April 29, 2002.
Guest Chatroom Specialist, with anthropologist Wade Davis, on Tolkien, National Geographic
Guest Lecture, “Performativity in Christine de Pizan and the Remythification of Classical
Women,” Session on “Voices from Antiquity,” Conference on “Procession, Performance,
Liturgy, and Ritual,” a Symposium sponsored by the Claremont Consortium in Medieval
and Early Modern Studies and the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont
Graduate University, Claremont, CA, Nov. 9, 2001.
Guest Lecture with slides, “Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Food and its Contexts,” Early
Conversations Lecture for Ensemble Anonymous, Houston Early Music, St. Paul’s
United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas, April 20, 2001.
Guest Lecture with slides, "The Castration of Saturn: Kingship and the Abuse of Power in
Chaucer," Medieval Studies Dept., University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Oct. 5, 2000.
Guest Lecture, "Christine de Pizan and the 'Remythisization' of Women," Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, R.O.C.,
Sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan, April 20, 2000.
Guest Lecture, "Chaucer's Wife of Bath as Medieval Cleric," Department of Foreign Languages
and Literatures, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R. O. C., Sponsored
by the National Science Council of Taiwan, April 18, 2000.
Invited Panelist (representing Private Universities), “Post-Tenure Review Panel Discussion,”
1997 Accounting Education Chairperson’s Forum, “Bridging the Expectation Gap,”
Accounting Education Foundation of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants,
Dallas, TX, Nov. 6, 1997.
Guest Lecture, “Christine de Pizan and the City of Ladies,” Preceding the Newberry Consort
Concert of Medieval Music, Houston Early Music Society, St. Paul’s Methodist Church,
Houston, Texas, Nov. 4, 1997.
Second Annual Lecture on Italian Archaeology, “The Genealogy of the Graeco-Roman Gods in
the Middle Ages” (with slides), Friends of Archaeology at the University of St. Thomas,
The Federation of Italian-American Organizations of Greater Houston, Inc., and the
Italian Cultural and Community Center, Houston, TX, Oct. 5, 1997.
Guest Lecture, “J. R. R. Tolkien’s Unruly Women,” Brigid’s Place, Christchurch Episcopal
Cathedral, Houston, TX, Oct. 1, 1997.
Guest Lecture, “Professing Woman,” Brigid’s Place, Christchurch Episcopal Cathedral, Houston,
TX, June 4, 1997.
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Invited Lecture, “Dante’s `Monsters’ as Deformation of the Natural: Schismatic Poet Bertrand de
Born (Inf. 28) and Childless Mother Hecuba (Inf. 30),” Symposium on “I monstra
nell’Inferno dantesco: tradizione e simbologie,” Organized by Tullio Gregory, XXXIII
Convegno storico internazionale del Centro Italiano di Studi sul Basso MedioevoAccademia Tudertina, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Centro di Studi sulla Spiritualità
Medievale, Todi, Italy, Oct. 16, 1996.
Inaugural Lectures for Brigid’s Place, on Medieval Visionary Women: “Speaking in Her Own
Voice: Heretic, Preacher, and Philosopher (Marguerite Porete, Margery Kempe, and
Christine de Pizan),” “Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies; A Feminist Mythology,” and
“St. Catherine of Siena, Dyer’s Daughter, in Late Medieval Britain,” A Series Organized
by Canon Betty Adam, Women’s Assembly, Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Ave.,
Houston, TX, September 4, 11, and 18, 1996.
Guest Lecture in Medieval Studies, "Sex, Lies, and Mythography: The Classical Gods and
Heroes in the Middle Ages" (Slide Lecture), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah,
May 18, 1995.
Guest Panelist, Debate on Canonicity, Department of English, Brigham Young University,
Provo, Utah, May 18, 1995.
Humanities Forum Lecture, "Sex, Lies, and Mythography: The Classical Gods and Heroes in the
Middle Ages" (Slide Lecture), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 8, 1995.
Guest Lecture, Medieval Studies Program, "Medieval Mythography: Margin as Text, Text as
Image," Organized by Richard Neuhauser, Trinity University, San Antonio, Tex., April
14, 1994.
Guest Lecture, Medieval Studies Program, "Positionality in Chaucerian Feminism: The Figure
of Medea,” Organized by Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex.,
March 1, 1994.
Invited Lecture, "Christine de Pizan as Literary Mother: Female Authority and Subjectivity in
Fifteenth-Century English Writing," First International Conference on Christine de Pizan,
Organized by Margarete Zimmerman, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, June 4, 1992.
Guest Lecture on “The English Department,” University of North Texas, Denton, Tex., April 9,
1992.
Invited Lecture, "The Decanonization of Old English Literature: Taking the Gold Back to
Egypt," in Session on "Women, Men, and the Canon," Symposium on "Sex and Gender
in Early English Literature," the Old English Colloquium and the English Department,
University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal., March 4, 1991.
Guest Lecture, "Originality and Marginality: Pallas Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and Christine
de Pizan," The English Department, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 15,
1989.
Invited Talk, "Humanism and the Humanities: The Department as Comitatus," English
Department, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 14, 1989.
Guest Lecture, "The Self-Mythography of Jankyn and Alisoun in Chaucer's 'Book of Wicked
Wives,'" Department of English, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., January
26, 1988.
Editorial Positions
Series Editor, Praeger Series on the Middle Ages
International Advisory Board, Chaucer Studio
Editorial Board, College Literature
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Series Editor, Greenwood Guides to Historical Events in the Medieval World (12 vols) 2001-5
http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/series/Greenwood%2bGuides%2bto%2bHistoric%2bEvents
%2bof%2bthe%2bMedieval%2bWorld.aspx
Field Editor, The Chaucer Encyclopedia, ed. Paul Ruggiers (†) and Dan Ransom,
The Variorum Chaucer, Yale University Press
1993General Editor, Library of Medieval Women, Boydell & Brewer, Ltd. (30 vols.)
1988Bibliographic Team Member, Studies in the Age of Chaucer
1987-90
Member, Editorial Board, Rice University Press
1981-88
Twentieth-Century Editor, Studies in Medievalism
1978-91
Literary Editor, Editor-in-Chief, Bard Undergraduate Literary Magazine (Purdue University)
1965-67
Series Edited:
General Editor, The Library of Medieval Women (24):
http://www.boydell.co.uk/LIBEN.HTM
(individual titles listed)
Caritas Pirckheimer’s Journal of the Reformation, 1524-28, trans. Paul A. MacKenzie
(Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2006).
Selections from Women’s Books of Hours in the Later Middle Ages, trans. Charity Stokes
(Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2006).
The Vision of Christine de Pizan, trans. Glenda MacLeod and Charity Cannon Willard
(Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2005).
Anne of France’s Lessons for My Daughter, trans. Sharon L. Jansen (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and
Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2004).
http://www.boydell.co.uk/43840162.HTM
Goscelin of St. Bertin’s Book of Encouragement and Consolation [Goscelin's Letter to the
Recluse Eva], trans. Monika Otter (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York:
Boydell and Brewer, 2004). http://www.boydell.co.uk/43840154.HTM
Late Medieval German Women’s Poetry: Secular and Religious Songs, trans. Albrecht Classen
(Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2004).
http://www.boydell.co.uk/43840219.HTM
The Letters of the Paston Women: A Selected Translation. Translated from the Middle English
with Introduction, Notes, and Interpretive Essay, trans. Diane Watt (Woodbridge,
Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2004).
http://www.boydell.co.uk/43840243.HTM
Margery Kempe’s Book, trans. Liz Herbert McAvoy (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New
York: Boydell and Brewer, 2004). http://www.boydell.co.uk/59917916.HTM
Mechthild of Magdeburg: Selections from `The Flowing Light of the Godhead'
Translated Elizabeth A. Andersen (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York:
Boydell and Brewer, 2003). http://www.boydell.co.uk/5991786X.HTM
The Gilte Legende: Middle English Womens’ Saints Lives, trans. Larissa Tracy (Woodbridge,
Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2003).
http://www.boydell.co.uk/59917711.HTM
Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents in France and England, trans. Vera Petch
Morton with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York:
Boydell and Brewer, 2003). http://www.boydell.co.uk/59918254.HTM
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Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine (d. 1315): Life and Revelations, trans. Ulrike Wiethaus
(Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2002).
http://www.boydell.co.uk/59916340.HTM
The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters: Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia, trans. John M.
Klassen with Eva Doležalovà and Lynn Szabo (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester,
New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2001). http://www.boydell.co.uk/5991612X.HTM
The Life of Douceline of Digne, Beguine of Provence, Translated from Occitan, trans.
Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay, with Carol Kent (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and
Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2001).
http://www.boydell.co.uk/59916294.HTM
The “Memoriale” of Angela of Foligno, trans. Cristina Mazzoni and John Cirignano
(Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2000)
http://www.boydell.co.uk/5991562X.HTM
St. Bride and her Book: St. Birgitta's Revelations, trans. from the Middle English by Julia Bolton
Holloway (Newburyport, Mass: Focus Press, 1992; rpt. Woodbridge, Suffolk, and
Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2000).
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): On Natural Philosophy and Medicine, Selections from "Cause
et Cure," trans. Margret Berger (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York:
Boydell & Brewer, 1999). http://www.boydell.co.uk/59915514.HTM
Women Saints’ Lives in Old English Prose, trans. Leslie Donovan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and
Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 1999).
http://www.boydell.co.uk/59915689.HTM
Helene Kottanner: Memoirs (1439-1440), Translated from the Early New High German, by
Maya Bijvoet-Williamson (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and
Brewer, 1998). http://www.boydell.co.uk/59914623.HTM
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works, trans. Katharina Wilson (Woodbridge,
Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 1998).
http://www.boydell.co.uk/59914895.HTM
Julian of Norwich (b. 1343), Revelations of Divine Love; The Short Text, Translated from
British Library Additional MS. 37750, The Motherhood of God: An Excerpt, trans.
Frances Beer (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer,
1998). http://www.boydell.co.uk/59914534.HTM
The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena, trans. Dayle Seidenspinner-Nuñez (Woodbridge, Suffolk,
and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 1998).
http://www.boydell.co.uk/59914461.HTM
The Writings of Margaret of Oingt, Medieval Prioress and Mystic (+1310), trans. from Latin and
the Francoprovençal by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (Newburyport, Mass: Focus Press,
1990). http://www.boydell.co.uk/59914429.HTM
Christine de Pizan: The Letter of Othea to Hector, trans. Jane Chance (Newburyport, Mass:
Focus Press, 1990; rpt. Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 1997).
http://www.boydell.co.uk/59914402.HTM
Series Editor, Greenwood Titles for the Guides to Historic Events in the Medieval World (20045)
http://www.greenwood.com/search/series_search.asp?Listing=List&series_title=Greenwood%20Guides
%20to%20Historic%20Events%20of%20the%20Medieval%20World
This series will feature individual volumes on key events in world history during the medieval
time period that are central to the lower-level undergraduate and secondary school history
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curriculum and that are the standard topics for student research. Each book in the series can be
described as a “library in a book.” The concept of the series is to provide a quick, in-depth
examination and current perspectives on the event to stimulate critical thinking, as well as to
provide ready-reference materials, including primary documents, for student research.
Advisory Board:
Gwinn Vivian, Archaeologist, University of Arizona Museum
Sharon Kinoshita, Associate Professor of Literature (French Literature and World Literature and
Cultural Studies) University of California-Santa Cruz
Christopher A. Snyder, Chair, History and Politics, Marymount University
Nancy Wu, Associate Museum Educator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
1.
The Black Death--Joseph Byrne, History, Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee
(2004) http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2492, Choice
Recommended Book
2.
The Crusades—Helen Nicholson, History and Archaeology, University of Cardiff, Wales
(2004)
http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2685&imprintID=I1,
Choice Recommended Book
3.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Troubadours, and Courtly Love--Ffiona Swabey, Independent
Scholar, London, England (2004).
http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2523 Choice
Recommended Book
4.
Genghis Khan and Mongol Rule--George Lane, School of Oriental and Asiatic Studies,
University of London, England (2004)
http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2528, Choice
Recommended Book
5.
Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War--Deborah Fraioli, French, Simmons College,
Boston, Massachussetts (2005)
http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2458
6.
Magna Carta--Katherine Drew, History, Rice University, Houston, Texas (2004)
http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2590, Choice
Recommended Book
The Medieval Castle--Marilyn Stokstad, Art History, University of Kansas, Lawrence,
Kansas (2005) http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2525
8. The Medieval Cathedral—William Clark, Art History, Queens College, CUNY (2005)
7.
http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?sku=GR2693
9.
The Medieval Town and Social Change--Norman Pounds, History, Fitzwilliam College,
Cambridge University, England (2005)
http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2498
10.
Medieval Science and Technology--Elspeth Whitney, History, University of Nevada-Las
Vegas (2004) http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2519.
Choice Recommended Book
11.
The Rise of Islam--Matthew Gordon, History, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (2005)
http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2720
12.
The Puebloan Society of Chaco Canyon—Paul Reed, Preservation Archaeologist, Center
for Desert Archaeology, Salmon Ruins, New Mexico (2004)
http://www.greenwood.com/books/BookDetail.asp?dept_id=1&sku=GR2720, Choice
Recommended Book
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Series Editor, Praeger Series on the Middle Ages (2003-) (in progress)
The Praeger Series on the Middle Ages will consist of definitive monographs on Medieval
Studies, broadly defined (that is, aimed at libraries and general readers as well as at students and
scholars who seek an introduction to specific aspects of medieval life). Each title in the series, as
an introduction to the field, subject, or topic, will be an original work of the highest scholarly and
professional quality. While volumes will not be reference works in the traditional sense of the
word, they will serve as guides or handbooks to individual topics. Volumes may be single author
or multiple authors, of approximately 120,000 words, including 20-30 illustrations, as well as
maps and charts as necessary.
Advisory Board:
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, University of
Pittsburgh
Barbara Hanawalt, King George III Professor of British History, Ohio State University
E. Ann Matter, Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Marilyn J. Stokstad, Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History Emerita,
University of Kansas
Titles:
Chivalry and Courtly Love in the Middle Ages, Jennifer Goodman Wollock, English, Texas A &
M University
The Cultural Contexts of Medieval Music, Nancy Van Deusen, Music, Claremont Graduate
School
Head to Toe: Health and Medicine in the Middle Ages, Luke Demaitre, Humanities in Medicine,
University of Virginia-Charlottesville
Introduction to Medieval Literature, Stephen Carey, German, Georgia State University
Islam in the Middle Ages, Jacob Lassner, History, Northwestern University, and David Reisman
Judaism in the Middle Ages, Theodore Steinberg, English, State University College of New
York-Fredonia
The Middle Ages: Arts for an Open World, Annemarie Carr, University Distinguished Professor,
Art History, Southern Methodist University
Materials and Methods of Medieval Artists, Janetta Rebold Benton, Distinguished Professor of
Art History and Director, Porzheimer Honors College, Pace University
Medieval Crime and Criminals, Larry Sullivan, Chief Librarian, John Jay College of Criminal
Law, CUNY
Medieval Field Sports: Falconry, Hunting, and Angling, David Zincavage, Independent Scholar
Mythology in the Middle Ages: Christopher Fee, English, Gettysburg College, PA
Teachers and Students in the Middle Ages, John McCarthy, History, Sutton University
Women, Men, and Work, Martha Driver, Distinguished Professor of English, Pace University
Encyclopedia Articles and Entries:
"Albericus of London" and "Pierre Bersuire," entries for The Chaucer Encyclopedia, ed. Paul
Ruggiers† and Dan Ransom, The Variorum Chaucer, Yale University Press
(forthcoming) (someday).
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“Mythography” (1000 words), The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork
(forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2007).
“Eileen Power” (250 words), “Mythology Reception in the Middle Ages” (750 words), and
“Women Medievalists in the Academy” (750 words), for Women and Gender in
Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret C. Schaus, vol. 12 of Routledge
Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (New York and London: Routledge, 2006).
http://www.routledgeny.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=0415969441&parent_id=&pc=
“J. R. R. Tolkien” (2000 words), Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, vol. 5: Modern
Literature, ed. David Scott Kastan, 5 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
“Women’s Historical Writing in the Middle Ages,” in The Companion to Women’s Historical
Writing, ed. Mary Spongeberg et al. (London: Palgrave/Macmillan Ltd., 2005), 339a49b.
Infography, “Mythography.” Fields of Knowledge Infography
(http://www.infography.com/content/135501652087.html
2001.
“Christine de Pizan,” “Mythography,” in Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths,
Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, ed. Carl Lindahl, John Lindow, and John
MacNamara, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio 2000), 1:180-83; 2:693-97.
"Literary Influences on Middle English Literature (Medieval Latin)," in Medieval
England: An Encyclopedia, ed. Paul E. Szarmach, M. Teresa Tavormina, Joel T.
Rosenthal, vol. 3: 437-39, Garland Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages (New York:
Garland Press, 1998).
Articles (Refereed):
“`In the Company of Orcs’: Peter Jackson’s Queer Tolkien,” for Queer Movie Medievalisms,
ed. Katherine Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh, Queer Interventions Series, Ashgate Press
(collection under consideration) (invited essay).
“Subversive Fantasist: Tolkien on Class Difference,” in The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004:
Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder, ed. Wayne Hammond and Cristina
Scull, 153-68 (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2006) (invited essay).
http://www.marquette.edu/library/information/news/2006/jrrt_proceedings.html
“Tolkien and the Other: Race and Gender in Middle-earth,” in Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages,
ed. Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers, 173-88 (New York and London: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005).
“Introduction: Tolkien’s Modern Medievalism,” with Alfred K. Siewers, in Tolkien’s Modern
Middle Ages, ed. Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers, 1-13 (New York and London:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).
“Tolkien’s Women (and Men): The Film and the Book,” in Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter
Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings,” ed. Janet Brennan Croft, 175-93 (Altadena, CA: The
Mythopoeic Press, 2004) (invited essay). http://www.mythsoc.org/croft.html
“Introduction: A ‘Mythology for England’?” in Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader,
ed. Jane Chance (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 1-16.
“Hrotsvit’s Latin Drama Gallicanus and the Old English Epic Elene: Intercultural Founding
Narratives of a Feminized Church," in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Contexts, Identities,
Affinities, and Performances, 193-212, edited by Katharina Wilson, Phyllis Brown, and
Linda McMillan (Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 2004), 193-210.
http://www.utppublishing.com/pubstore/merchant.ihtml?pid=8099&lastcatid=22&step=4
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"National Identity and Conversion through Medieval Romance: The Case of Hrafn
Gunnlaugsson's 'I Skugga Hrafnsins' (In the Shadow of the Raven)," with Jessica
Weinstein, Scandinavian Studies 75 (Fall, 2003): 417-38.
“Representing Rebellion: The Ending of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and the Castration of Saturn,”
in Medieval Literature, Languages and Culture: Essays From A Symposium in Memory
of Professor Margaret Schlauch (1898-1986), May 13-15, 2002, in Studia Anglica
Posnaniensia 38 (2002): 75-92 (published spring, 2003) (invited essay).
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=15178411
"Illuminated Royal Manuscripts of the Early Fifteenth Century and Christine de Pizan's
Remythification of Classical Women in Cité des Dames," Contexts and Continuities:
Proceedings of the IVth International Colloquium on Christine de Pizan (Glasgow 21-27
July 2000), published in honour of Liliane Dulac, edited by Angus J. Kennedy with
Rosalind Brown-Grant, James C. Laidlaw and Catherine M. Müller, Glasgow University
Medieval French Texts and Studies, 1 (Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 2002), 3
vols., 51 illustrations, 1:203-41.
“The F-Word as ‘Fashion’: Gendering the Sophomore Survey,” in Teaching Medieval Women,
edited by Jane Jeffrey, special issue of College Literature 28.2 (2001): 70-84.
“Classical Myth and Gender in the Letters of 'Abelard' and 'Heloise': Gloss, Glossed, Glossator,”
in Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman, edited by Bonnie
Wheeler, 161-85, Series on The New Middle Ages (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000).
Winner, Best Essay Prize, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, 2005
“’Mine is Longer’: Gender and Female Authority in the Academy,” in Medieval Feminist Forum
30: Feminist Legacies: Female Medieval Scholars and the Academy, Guest edited by
Sarah Stanbury (2000):16-23.
“Speaking in propria persona: Authorizing the Subject as a Political Act in Late Medieval
Feminine Spirituality,” in New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of
Liége and their Impact, ed. Juliette Dor, Lesley Johnson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne,
266-90 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1999) (invited essay).
"Gender Subversion and Linguistic Castration in Fifteenth-Century English Translations of
Christine de Pizan," in Violence against Women in Medieval Texts, ed. Anna Walecka
Roberts, 161-94 (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998) (invited essay).
“`The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women’ (The 1997 NEH Summer Institute):
Introduction, Description, and Reading List,” for Special Section on “Feminist
Pedagogy from Participants in the 1997 NEH Summer Institute at Rice University,”
Special Issue on Teaching Medieval Women, in Medieval Feminist Newsletter No. 25
(Spring, 1998): 9-24.
Compiler and Editor, Essays from the “1997 NEH Summer Institute on ‘The Literary Traditions
of Medieval Women’ on Teaching Medieval Women,” in Medieval Feminist Newsletter
no. 25 (Spring, 1998), no. 25, pp. 9-46.
“Monstra-naturalità distorte: Bertram dal Bornio, Ecuba [Dante’s Monsters and Aristotelian
Mutation: Schismatic Poet Bertran dal Bornio (Inf. 28) and Childless Mother Hecuba
(Inf. 30)],” in I `monstra’ nell’inferno dantesco: tradizione e simbolgie. Atti del XXXIII
Convegno storico internazionale del Centro Italiano di Studi sul Basso MedioevoAccademia Tudertina (Todi, 13-16 ottobre 1996), 235-76 (Spoleto: Centro Italiano di
Studi’Alto Medioevo, 1997) (invited essay).
"Introduction," Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages, ed. J. Chance (Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 1996): 1-21.
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"St. Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval Britain: Feminizing Literary Reception through Gender
and Class," in Annali d'italianistica: Women Mystic Writers 13 (1995): 163-203 (invited
essay).
"Afterword: Chivalry and the Other," The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideals of Order and their
Decline, 309-317, ed. Liam Purdon and Cindy S. Vitto (Gainesville and London:
University Press of Florida, 1994) (invited essay).
"Christine de Pizan as Literary Mother: Women's Authority and Subjectivity in 'The Floure and
the Leafe' and 'Assembly of Ladies,'" The City of Scholars: New Approaches to
Christine de Pizan, 245-59, ed. Margarete Zimmermann and Dina de Rentiis, European
Cultures: Studies in Literature and the Arts (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter,
1994) (invited essay).
"Gender Trouble in the Garden of Deduit: Christine de Pizan Translating the Rose," Romance
Languages Annual 4 (1993): 20-28 (invited essay).
"Allegory and Structure in Pearl: The Four Senses of the Ars Praedicandi and FourteenthCentury Homiletic Poetry," in Text and Matter: New Critical Perspectives on the Pearl
Poet, ed. Robert J. Blanch, Miriam Youngerman Miller, and Julian N. Wasserman (Troy,
New York: Whitston Press, 1991): 31-59 (invited essay).
"Preface" to Inklings and Others, ed. J. Chance, in Studies in Medievalism 3: 3-4 (winter-spring
1991), published in a single volume (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1991): 231-7.
and David Day, "Medievalism in Tolkien: Two Decades of Criticism in Review," Studies in
Medievalism: Inklings and Others, Ed. Jane Chance, 3:3 (winter 1991), published with
German Medievalism in a single issue (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991): 375-88.
"Chaucer's Zephirus: Dante's Zefiro, St. Dominic, and the Idea of the General Prologue," in The
Mythographic Art (see above): 177-98.
Preface and "Introduction. The Medieval 'Apology for Poetry': Fabulous Narrative and Stories
of the Gods," in The Mythographic Art (see above): ix-xi, 3-44.
"Anti-Courtly Love in Chaucer's Complaints," Mediaevalia 10 (1988, for 1984): 181-97.
"'Disfigured is thy Face': Chaucer's Pardoner and the Protean Shape-Shifter Fals-Semblant" (A
Response to Britton Harwood) in "Medieval Literature and Contemporary Critical
Theory: A Symposium," Philological Quarterly 67 (1988): 423-35.
"Creative Projects in Medieval Literature Courses," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance
Teaching 14:1 (1987): 3-5.
"Chaucerian Irony in the Boethian Short Poems: The Dramatic Tension between Classical and
Christian," The Chaucer Review 20:3 (1986): 235-45.
"Introduction. Surprised by Subtlety: A Survey of the Teaching of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight" and "Tolkien and his Sources," in Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight, ed. Miriam Youngerman Miller and Jane Chance (New York: MLA,
l986): 43-68; l5l-5.
"Chaucerian Irony in the Verse Epistles 'Wordes unto Adam,' 'Lenvoy a Scogan,' and 'Lenvoy a
Bukton'," Papers on Language and Literature 21 (1985): 115-28.
"The Origins of Medieval Mythography: From Homer to Dante," in Mapping the Cosmos, ed.
Jane Chance and R.O. Wells, Jr. (Houston: Rice University Press, l985): 35-64, 151-9.
"The Medieval Sources of Cristoforo Landino's Allegorization of the Judgment of Paris,"
Studies in Philology 81:2 (1984): 145-60.
"Chaucer and Mythology," The Chaucer Newsletter 6 (winter 1984): 1, 2.
"The Artist as Epic Hero in Alan de Lille's Anticlaudianus," Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 18
(1983): 238-47.
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"The Role of Kingship in William Dunbar's Thrissil and Rois," University of Mississippi Studies
in English 2 (1981): 25-34.
"The Anglo-Saxon Woman as Hero: The Chaste Queen and the Masculine Woman Saint,"
Allegorica 5 (winter 1980): 139-48.
Abstract of "The Anglo-Saxon Woman as Hero: The Chaste Queen and the Masculine Woman
Saint" (Abstract), The Old English Newsletter 14 (spring 1981): 28-29.
"'As sweete as is the roote of lycorys, or any cetewale': Herbal Imagery in Chaucer's Miller's
Tale," Chaucer Newsletter 2 (winter 1980): 6-8.
"McLuhan's Message and Stoppard's Medium in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," Dutch
Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 10 (winter 1980): 34-40.
"The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother," Texas Studies in
Literature and Language 22 (fall 1980): 287-303 (reprinted six times).
"The King under the Mountain: Tolkien's Hobbit," North Dakota Quarterly 47 (winter 1979): 518.
"Creation in Genesis and Nature in Chaucer's General Prologue, 1-18," Papers on Language and
Literature 14 (1978): 459-64.
"House Symbolism in Hawthorne's 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux,'" American Transcendental
Quarterly 38 (1978): 168-75.
"'Isadora Icarus': The Mythic Unity of Erica Jong's Fear of Flying," Rice University Studies 64
(winter 1978): 89-100.
Reprinted Essays and Book Chapters
Reprinted essay,“Tolkien’s Women (and Men): The Films and the Book,” feature lecture at
Oxonmoot, 2003, reprinted in Mallorn (Journal of the Tolkien Society) 43 (July, 2005):
30-37; from Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings,” ed.
Janet Brennan Croft, 175-93 (Altadena, CA: The Mythopoeic Press, 2004).
Reprinted Interview, by Turgon, “Turgon’s Bookshelf: Q&A with Jane Chance,” in a collection
on best material published by theoneringnet.com, More People’s Guide to Middle-earth,
ed. Cliff Broadway, Erica Challis, et al., 125-30 (Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring
Press, 2005), pb; from “Green Books-Exploring the Words and Worlds of J. R. R.
Tolkien,” http://greenbooks.theonering.net/turgon/files/071503.html,, July 15, 2003,
Reprinted essay, “The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien’s Epic,” in Rose A. Zimbardo and Neil D.
Isaacs, Understanding “The Lord of the Rings”: The Best of Tolkien Criticism (London:
HarperCollins; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 195-232; from Tolkien’s Art, rev.
ed. (2001).
Reprinted essay in shortened form, "National Identity and Conversion through Medieval
Romance: The Case of Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's 'I Skugga Hrafnsins' (In the Shadow of
the Raven)," with Jessica Weinstein, in Sagas and Societies: Conference Proceedings of
the Conference Held in Bogarnes, Iceland, September 5-9, 2002, Bogarnes, 2004.
http://tobias-lib.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/volltexte/2004/1072/ from "National Identity and
Conversion through Medieval Romance: The Case of Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's 'I Skugga
Hrafnsins' (In the Shadow of the Raven)," with Jessica Weinstein, Scandinavian Studies
75 (Fall, 2003): 417-38.
Reprinted excerpts from The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power and Tolkien’s Art: A
Mythology for England (2001), included on National Geographics’s Lord of the Rings
web page on December 20, 2001, under “Myth and Storytelling,” on “Beyond the
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Movie: The Lord of the Rings,” http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngbeyond/ and on
cd, Feb. 2002
Reprinted essay: “The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel’s Mother,” in
Beowulf: A Verse Translation, trans. Seamus Heaney, ed. Daniel Donoghue, Norton
Critical Editions (New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), 152-67; from Texas Studies in
Literature and Language 22 (1980): 287-303.
Reprinted essay, "The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Epic," in Modern Critical Interpretations: J.
R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, ed. Harold Bloom, 79-106 (Philadelphia: Chelsea
House Publishers, 2000); from Tolkien's Art: A 'Mythology for England' (New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1979), 97-127.
Reprinted Excerpts from and analysis of The Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulation of Sexual
Politics, 1995, selected as one of several books representative of nineties criticism on
Chaucer (that is, termed both “feminist” and "innovative"), in the chapter on the
Nineties,Geoffrey Chaucer: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: EssaysArticles-Reviews, ed. Jodi-Anne George, Columbia Critical Guides (New York and
London: Columbia University Press, 2000), 148-53.
Reprinted essay, "The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother," in
Poetry Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of the Most Significant and
Widely Studied Poets of World Literature, ed. Carol T. Gaffke, Anna J. Sheets, and Laura
A. Wisner-Broyles (Detroit and London: Gale, 1999), 22: 25-30; from Texas Studies in
Literature and Language 22 (fall 1980): 287-303.
Reprinted essay: “Grendel’s Mother and the Women in Beowulf,” excerpts reprinted in
Readings on Beowulf, ed. Stephen P. Thomas, 107-111, Greenhaven Literary Companion
to British Literature (San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1998); from “The Structural Unity of
Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel’s Mother,” Texas Studies in Literature and Language
22 (1980): 282-303.
Reprinted essay, “Power and Knowledge in Tolkien: The Problem of Difference in `The
Birthday Party,’” in Proceedings of the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference Keble
College, Oxford, 1992 (Mythlore 80/Mallorn 33), 115-20, edited by Patricia Reynolds
and Glen H. Goodknight (Altadena, CA: Mythlore Press; Milton Keynes, England:
Tolkien Society, 1996); from The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power
(Macmillan/Twayne, 1992), 27-35.
Reprinted essay: "Grendel's Mother as Epic Anti-Type of the Virgin and Queen," in
Interpretations of Beowulf: A Critical Anthology, ed. R. D. Fulk (Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991): 251-263; from Chapter Seven of Woman
as Hero in Old English Literature (Syracuse, 1986).
Reprinted essay: "The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother," in New
Readings of Old English Women: An Anthology of Critical Articles, ed. Helen Damico
and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University
Press, 1990): 248-261; rpt. from Texas Studies in Literature and Language 22 (1980):
282-303.
Reprinted essay, "Creation in Genesis and Nature in Chaucer's General Prologue 1-18," reprinted
in Modern Critical Interpretations: The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, ed.
Harold Bloom (New York, New Haven, and Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1988), 67-71.
Reprinted essay: Excerpts from "'Isadora Icarus': The Mythic Unity of Erica Jong's Fear of
Flying," in Twentieth-Century Criticism, Gales's Contemporary Authors; from Rice
University Studies 64 (winter 1978): 89-100.
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Reviews:
Sara S. Poor, Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book: Gender and the Making of Textual
Authority (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), in Manuscripta 51.2
(2007) (in progress).
Marilynn Desmond, Ovid’s Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence (Ithaca, NY:
Cornell University Press, 2006), in International Journal of the Classical Tradition (20078) (in progress).
Carole Pasternak and Lisa M.C. Weston, eds., Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England:
Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder (Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, 2004), in Modern Philology 104:1 (August 2006): 111-14.
Richard Barber, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2004), xvi + 464 pp., in American Historical Review 110 (April, 2005): 543b-44b.
Brian Rosebury, Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon, rev. ed. (Basington, England, and New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), in Tolkien Studies 2 (2005): 262-65.
David E. Smith (Turgon), ed., The Tolkien Fan's Medieval Reader (Cold Spring Harbor, New
York: Cold Spring Press, 2004), in Tolkien Studies 2 (2005): 271-73.
Barbara Newman, God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), pp. xvi, 446, in Arthuriana 14
(2004): 100-102.
Joanne Maguire Robinson, Nobility and Annihilation in Marguerite Porete’s ‘Mirror of Simple
Souls’ (SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions). Albany, N.Y.: State University of
New York Press, 2001. Paper. Pp. xvi, 178, in Speculum, 79:2 (2004): 551-54.
Mary C. Erler, Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002), in The Medieval Review, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, 2003 http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/textidx?c=tmr;idno=baj9928.0305.005;rgn=main;view=text
Amy Hollywood, Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History
(Religion and Postmodernism), Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001,
Pp.xv, 371; 1 diagram, in Speculum 78 (2003): 898-901.
Claire Lees and Gillian Overing, Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon
England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), in Envoi 10:1 (Spring, 2001):64-72
(published in August, 2003).
“Is There a Text in this Hobbit? Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring,” in Literature/Film
Quarterly 30:2 (2002):79-85.
Review article, "Rhetorical Inventio and Ricardian Allegories in Late Middle English Literature:
A New Historical Approach to Fiction," about Ann W. Astell, Political Allegory in Late
Medieval England (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1999), xii plus 218 pp.,
in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 8.1 (summer, 2001; published in fall,
2002): 80-92.
Ruth Wehlau, “The Riddle of Creation”: Metaphor Structures in Old English Poetry (Studies in
the Humanities: LiteraturePoliticsSociety, 24), New York: Peter Lang, 1997; pp. ix, 161,
in Speculum 76 (2001): 1120-21.
Lawrence Besserman, Chaucer’s Biblical Poetics (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998),
338 pp., International Journal of the Classical Tradition 6.3 (Winter, 2000): 480-83.
Allen J. Frantzen, Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America
(University of Chicago Press, 1999), 369 pp., in Arthuriana, 9 (1999): 125-28.
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Paul Beekman Taylor, Chaucer’s Chain of Love (Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press; London; Associated University Presses, 1996), 215 pp., in International
Journal of the Classical Tradition 6.1 (Summer, 1999): 127-31.
Barbara Hanawalt and David Wallace, eds., Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature
and History in Fifteenth-Century England, Medieval Cultures 9 (Minneapolis
and
London:
University of Minnesota Press, 1996), xii & 242 pp., International Journal of the
Classical Tradition 5.4 (Spring, 1999): 626-28.
S. H. Rigby, Chaucer in Context: Society, Allegory, and Gender, Manchester Medieval Studies
(Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996), xii + 205 pp., Modern
Language Review / Yearbook of English Studies 29 (1999): 277-78.
http://www.amazon.com/Chaucer-Context-Society-AllegoryYearbook/dp/B00099PKIO/sr=1-30/qid=1168799370/ref=sr_1_30/102-81571837169757?ie=UTF8&s=books
James Simpson, Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus and
John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Cambridge University Press, 1995), in Studies in the
Age of Chaucer 19 (1997): 302-7.
E. Jane Burns, Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1994), Arthuriana 5 (winter 1995): 111-13.
Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender (University of California Press,
1991), in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 214-19
Mary Carruthers, The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
(Cambridge University Press, 1990), JEGP 91 (1992): 424-6.
Edward Donald Kennedy, Ronald Waldron, and Joseph S. Wittig, eds., Medieval English
Studies Presented to George Kane (D.S. Brewer, 1988), Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12
(1990): 308-11.
Carol F. Heffernan, The Phoenix at the Fountain: Images of Women and Eternity in Lactantius's
'Carmen de Ave Phoenice' and the Old English 'Phoenix' (University of Delaware Press,
1988), in Envoi: A Review of Medieval Literature 2:2 (1990): 350-57.
Mary Dove, The Perfect Age in Man's Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1988), in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 208-12
Charles R. Sleeth, Studies in 'Christ and Satan,' University of Toronto Press (1982),
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 82 (April 1983): 218-21.
Timothy O'Neill, The Individuated Hobbit: Tolkien, Jung and the Archetypes of Middle-earth,
in
"Psychology of Middle-earth," The Houston Chronicle, Zest Section (Jan. 20,
1980): 16, 20.
Jane-Marie Luecke, Measuring Old English Rhythym: An Application of the Principles of
Gregorian Chant Rhythm to the Meter of Beowulf, University of Wisconsin Press (1978),
The South Central Bulletin 39 (spring 1979): 24
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, in "Mythology for England: Tolkien's Silmarillion," The
Houston Chronicle, Zest Section (Sept. 11, 1977): 13.
Filmography
As herself, in Ringers: Lord of the Fans (Sony Pictures DVD 2005), dir. Carlene Cordova, 96
mins., November 2005
As herself, in National Geographic: Beyond the Movie, “The Lord of the Rings” (National
Geographic TV DVD, 2001), directed by Lisa Kors.
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Audio-recordings:
As Pertelote, in Middle English, Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale, NCS Readings 9, The Chaucer
Studio, Brigham Young University, 1995 (recorded Dublin, Ireland, July 25, 1994).
As the Loathly Lady, in Middle English, Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, NCS Readings 10, The
Chaucer Studio, Brigham Young University, 1995 (recorded Dublin, Ireland, July 25,
1994).
As Proserpina, in Middle English, Chaucer’s Merchant's Tale, Chaucer Studio 3 (recorded in
Vancouver, British Columbia, 1988; Adelaide, South Australia: The Chaucer
Studio/University of Adelaide, 1989).
Published Interviews, Memoirs:
Interview (taped), for “Ringers: Lord of the Fans” (world-premiere Jan. 21, 2005, Slamdance
Film Festival, 2005, Park City, Utah), dir. Carlene Cordova, 96 mins.
http://www.theonering.net/ringers/film_about.shtml
Interview by Mike Moore, “A Higher Class of Hobbit,” The Racine Journal Times, Racine,
Wisconsin, Oct. 25, 2004.
http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2004/10/25/local/columns/iq_3176671.txt
Interview (taped) about The Lord of the Rings, WB 18 Television station, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin (to run during sweeps in November 8-10), Oct. 22, 2004.
Interview by Scott McLemee, Senior Editor, “Reaching for the Ring: Tolkien Scholars Embark
on a Quest for Legitimacy in Academe,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 50, issue 39
(June 4, 2004), A11.
Interview by Tolkien’s Return of the King, for the Columbus News-Dispatch, Jan. 13, 2004.
Interview about Tolkien, with Ethan Gilsdorf, in "The Trouble with Tolkien," The Common
Reader, 2:4 (winter 2004): 16-20.
Interview by Anna Maria Tremonti about Tolkien, on “The Current,” Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation-Toronto, Dec. 16, 2003.
Interview by Gayle Macdonald for an article about Tolkien and the Toronto Tolkien conference,
The Gathering of the Fellowship, Toronto Globe and Mail, Dec. 13, 2003 (Saturday).
Interview about Tolkien, London Times, for Dec. 20, 2003 (Saturday).
Interview about Tolkien’s Return of the King by Larry Ratliff, San Antonio Express, for Dec. 13,
2003 (Saturday).
Interview, by Anthony S. Burdge, Parma Nölé (Journal of Heren Istarion, The New York
Tolkien Society), no. 8, November/December, 2003, pp. 19-26.
Interview by Cliff Broadway and theoneringnet.com, for Ringers, The Lord of the Fans, in
Oxford, England, September 20, 2003, for feature-length documentary about Tolkien’s
fans, and taping of portions of Lecture, “Tolkien’s Women (and Men): The Film and the
Book,” forthcoming, 2005.
Interview, by Turgon, “Turgon’s Bookshelf: Q&A with Jane Chance,” Green Books-Exploring
the Words and Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien, July 15, 2003.
http://greenbooks.theonering.net/turgon/files/071503.html,
Interview about Tolkien’s Two Towers, “Teachers Pan Ring Film,” by Julia Duin, Culture
section, Washington Times, Jan. 2, 2003.
Interview about Tolkien’s Two Towers, “The Current,” CBC Radio-Toronto, Dec. 20, 2002.
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Interview about Tolkien’s Two Towers, with Adam Rosser, “The Weekend News,” BBC Radio,
December 15, 2002.
Interview about Tolkien and fantasy, by Andrea Sith, Time Magazine, Nov. 22, 2002, for Nov.
25, 2002, issue (not cited by name).
Interview with Helios de Rosario Martínez,”Estudiar a Tolkien” (About my Tolkien course at
Rice University), Estel no. 25 (2002): 5-15.
Interview about Tolkien by Christopher Dow, “One Ring To Rule Them All,” Rice University
Sallyport, January, 2002.
Interview about Tolkien, by Christopher Dow, “Lure of the Rings,” Rice News 11, No. 18
(January 24, 2002): 4-5.
Interviewee/Castmember, National Geographic: Beyond the Movie, “The Lord of the Rings”
(2001) TV, directed by Lisa Kors, available on dvd. Included in Collector’s Edition of
Peter Jackson’s Fellowship of the Ring, DVD, Nov. 12, 2002.
Interview about Tolkien, Harry Potter, and Religion, Michael Paulson, Boston Globe, Dec. 24,
2001.
Interview about Tolkien, National Geographic, “Beyond the Movie: The Lord of the Rings,” on
MSNBC, December 23, 2001; repeated Dec. 28, 2001.
Interview about Tolkien and Tolkien the Medievalist, by Times Higher Education Supplement,
editor, Steve Farrar, Dec. 21, 2001, p. 36.
Interview about Tolkien, by Scott Menscher, USA Today, Dec. 21, 2001
Interview about Tolkien, in “Fantasylands: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Power of Myth,” Cover Story
by Joshuah Bearman, LA Weekly, Dec. 21-27, 2001.
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/05/cover-bearman.shtml
Interview about Tolkien and the National Geographic “Beyond the Movies: The Lord of the
Rings,” in “On the Trail of Hobbits and Wizards: National Geographic Special examines
Tolkien’s Influences,” feature story by Nancy McAlister, for the Jacksonville Florida
Times Union, Thursday, December 21, 2001, http://www.jacksonville.com/tuonline/stories/122101/ent_8135460.html
Interview with Wade Davis, National Geographic Chat Room on Tolkien, aol.com, Dec. 20,
2001.
Interview about Tolkien, National Geographic: Beyond the Movie, “The Lord of the Rings”
(2001) TV, directed by Lisa Kors, available on dvd.
Interview about Tolkien, by Brian Schott, KUER Radio, Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 20, 2001.
Interview about Tolkien, by Wayne Lee Gay, “J. R. R. Tolkien’s Literary Legacy Fuels Spirited
Debate,” Ft. Worth Star Telegram (Dec. 19, 2001).
Interview about Tolkien, by KTRH, Drive By Edition 5:50 PM, Houston, TX, Dec. 19, 2001.
Interview about Tolkien, by Jordan Mann, radiofandom, KLAS FM, Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 2001.
Interview about Tolkien and the Bible by Paul O’Donnell, “The Bible as the Ultimate Fairy
Tale,” “http://www.beliefnet.com/story/95/story_9572.html, Dec. 19, 2001.
Interview about Tolkien, “Afternoon Drive News,” KTRH Radio Station, Houston, TX, Dec. 18,
2001.
Interview about Tolkien, by Lewis Parks, “From Middle-earth to Silver Screen,” Houston
Chronicle Zest Section, December 16, 2001, pp. 8-11.
Interview about Tolkien, by Glenn Gaslin, in “The True Fellowship,” TV Guide, December 1522, 2001, p. 24.
Interview about Tolkien, by Deepa Varshney, Rice Thresher, Nov. 29, 2001, p. 7.
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Interviewed about Tolkien, for “The Rings of Tolkien,” by Bill Eikencamp, Dispatch Book
Critic, in “Features—Accent and Arts,” 01F, Columbus (Ohio) Despatch, November 4,
2001
http://libpub.dispatch.com/cgibin/documentv1?DBLIST=cd01&DOCNUM=48234&TERMV=128865:4:128869:6:
Interviewed by Mary McNamara about Tolkien, in “Lord of Literature,”Los Angeles Times,
Sunday, Oct. 21, 2001, pp. E1, E6.
Interview about Tolkien, in Paula Dragosh, “Deconstruct This: J. R.R. Tolkien: Shot from the
Canon,” Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 2, 2001, pp. B4, B6.
Interview about Tolkien, in Chris Mooney, “Kicking the Hobbit” for “Spectrum,” American
Prospect Magazine, July 14, 2001.
Interview about Tolkien, by Stephen Kinzer, “An Improbable Sequel: Harry Potter and the Ivory
Tower," New York Times, May 12, 2001, p. A21.
Interview about the Medieval Academy, by Charlotte Allen, for an article on the "Dark Ages?"
Lingua Franca (Mar. 1999), 11-12.
Interview about Tolkien, for an article on “Trend of the Exploring of Soul,” Golden Lotus
Buddhist Magazine, Taiwan, No. 66 (June, 1998), pp. 32-36.
Interview, by Eric D. Norvell, "Pathfinding to the Top Ten," Capital Eye 1:1 (April 1992): 2-3,
12-13.
Interview by Sasha on "Byzantium in Houston" Symposium, Art Talk, on ARTS Radio (KRTS
92.1 F.M.), March 11, 1988, for March 14-18, 1988.
Interview by Time Magazine about new course, “Images of Women in Literature” and the use of
Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying as a text (1975).
Articles, Memoirs, Abstracts, Letters to the editor (non-refereed):
“There is a mythology about the origin of the Saturday night dance,” The Book of Forty, comp.
Patricia Hollahan (Kalamazoo: The Medieval Institute, College of Arts and Sciences,
Western Michigan University Press, 2005), pp. 10-11.
Infography, “Mythography.” Fields of Knowledge Infography
(http://www.infography.com/content/135501652087.html
2001.
“Tenured faculty, academic freedom threatened” (Letter to the Editor), The Rice Thresher 84:27
(May 16, 1997), p. 2.
Guest Column, The Rice Thresher, Sept. 22, 1989, p. 3.
"View from the Tower," The Rice Thresher, Jan. 16, l987, p. 4.
"How to Save Your Own Career: The Junior Professor's Dilemma," Change Magazine 10
(February 1978): 40-3; and Response to Letters 10 (June-July 1978): 10.
Letter to the Editor about the Theatre of the Absurd, Atlantic Monthly (April 5, 1965).
Poems:
"Alex through the Shower Door," "Paradise, Texas," and "Recovery" (Poems), University Blue
(April l984): 6-7.
"Analysand" (Poem), New America: A Journal of American and Southwestern Culture (Women
Artists and Writers of the Southwest) 4:3 (1982): 85.
"Magi" (Poem), CCTE Proceedings 45 (September 1980): 66
"Sentry" (Poem), Southern Humanities Review 14 (winter 1980): 69.
"Sightseeing" (Poem), The Rice Literary Review (spring 1980): 28-29.
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"Shopping" (Poem), Primavera, 5 (1979): 8. Rpt. in Anthology of Magazine Verse and
Yearbook of American Poetry (Beverly Hills, California: Monitor Book Co., 1979).
"Magi" (Poem), Icarus 74 (summer-autumn 1978): 77.
"Talk" (Poem), Ariel 9 (spring 1978): 77.
"Wasp Bite" (Poem), The Literary Review 21 (1978): 348.
"Bricklayer" (Poem), The Literary Review 20 (1977): 433.
"Memento" and "Rumpus Room" (Poems), Quartet 8 (winter-spring 1977): 16-17.
"Prairie" (Poem), Kansas Quarterly 9 (winter 1977): 130.
"Playing Pool" (Poem), The Lyric 56 (spring 1976): 30.
"The Savior of Worm Hall" (Poem), Nimrod 21 (fall-winter 1976): 4-5.
"Christmas Present" and "Putting You On" (Poems), Antigonish Review 23 (autumn 1975):
13-14.
"Ecology for a New Eden" (Poem), Wascana Review, 8 (spring 1973): 57.
"The New Decorum" (Poem), Dalhousie Review 53 (1973): 349-350.
Various Poems, Bard Literary Magazine (Purdue University) (1965-67).
OFFICES AND APPOINTMENTS:
Program Creator and Organizer, Tolkien at Kalamazoo
2000-7
Nominee, Councillor, Medieval Academy of America
Fall, 2000
Chair, Nominating Committee, Texas Faculty Association
Spring, 1999-Spring, 2000
Member, SCMLA 1999 Book Prize Committee,
Spring, 1999
Vice-President, Texas Faculty Association
1998-2000
President, Gulf Coast Texas Faculty Association Chapter, Houston, TX
1998-2000
Texas Faculty Association Delegate, Texas State Teachers Association
1997-98
Member and Liaison, Program Committee for the Annual Meeting, Texas Faculty Association,
Feb. 14-15, 1997
1996-97
Program Chair, Annual Meeting, Texas Faculty Association, Houston, TX,
May 17-18, 1996
Member-at-Large (representing private institutions), Executive Committee, TFA
1995-99
Board Member, Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, Inc.
1989-92
Co-founder, with Elizabeth Robertson and Jane Burns, Medieval Feminist Newsletter (now
Medieval Feminist Forum)
1986-7
Founding President, Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages, Inc.
1986-89
Member, Executive Panel of TEAMS (Committee on Teaching Medieval
Studies, CARA, Medieval Academy)
1984-86
Secretary-Treasurer, Rice University Chapter of the American Association
of University Professors
1975-76
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Reader for Journals:
Allegorica
Arachnē
Assays: New Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts
Chaucer Review
Christianity and Literature
College Literature
Florilegium: Journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists
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International Journal of the Classical Tradition
International Studies Perspectives
Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
Mediaevalia et Humanistica
Modern Philology
Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature
Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, General Fantasy and
Mythic Studies
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
South Atlantic Review
Speculum
Studies in English Literature
Studies in Medievalism
Reader for Presses:
University of Alabama Press
Ashgate Publishing
Boydell and Brewer Ltd.
Brepols Press/ACMRS
Broadview Press
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
University Press of Florida
Harper Collins
Indiana University Press
Longmans
Macmillan Press Ltd.
Medieval Institute Publications (Western Michigan University)
University of Minnesota Press
Oxford University Press
Princeton University Press
Rice University Press
Syracuse University Press
St. Martin’s Press
University of Tennessee Press
Yale University Press
External Reviewer/Examiner in Tenure and Promotion (Associate and Full Professor)
Decisions in Departments of English or of Romance Languages and Literatures at:
Barnard College-Columbia University
Brigham Young University
Colorado State University
College of William and Mary
Hope College
Kenyon College
Lewis and Clark College
Northeastern Univesity
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Ohio State University
Ohio University
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Skidmore College
Texas A & M University
Texas Tech University
Tufts University
University of California-Davis
University of Colorado-Boulder
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of Michigan
University of New Mexico
University of Oregon
University of Rochester
University of Texas-San Antonio
University of Vermont
Wake Forest University
Wellesley College
York University (Canada)
Reviewer and Consultant:
Judge, MLA Selection Committee for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize and the Lois Roth
Award for a Translation of a Literary Work
2007-9
Humanities Judge, University of St. Thomas Research Symposium 2007, University of St.
Thomas, Houston, TX,
April 13, 2007
Evaluator, Swiss National Science Foundation
2005
Consultant, British Royal Mail, Tolkien stamp image
2003
Consultant, National Geographic, Tolkien and War Program
2003
Referee, Standard Research Grants Program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada,
2001-2002.
Member, SCMLA 1998 Book Award Committee
1999
Member, Honorary Advisory Council, International Biographical Centre
1998
Chair, Humanities Graduate Panel, 1995 U.S. Department of Education Jacob Javits Graduate
Fellowships Adjudication; Captain, English, 1992, 2001, 2003; also reviewer in Area
Studies and Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 1994; and in Comparative Literature 1988,
1991-95 , 1999, 2001; and Speech, Rhetoric, and Debate, 2001 (Reader, 1988-2003)
Referee, NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers, 1988
Referee, National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Public Programs (various),
Division of Research Programs, Program of Interpretative Research, Collaborative Projects
Referee, University of Houston Office of Research Development
BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS:
Who's Who in the World
Who's Who in America
Cross-Listing, Who's Who in America
199919951993
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Who's Who in American Education.
Directory of Texas Humanities Scholars: Myth
International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women, first ed.
Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors & Poets
1986Directory of Texas Humanities Scholars: Chivalry
International Who's Who of Authors and Writers
Répertoire of Neo-Latinists (IANLS)
International Who's Who in Poetry and Poet's Encyclopaedia
Dictionary of American Poets and Fiction Writers
International Directory of Medievalists
International Who's Who in Education
Who's Who in the South and Southwest
Dictionary of American Scholars
World's Who's Who of Women in Education
Dictionary of International Biography
Who's Who of American Women
World's Who's Who of Women
Gale's Contemporary Authors
199219881988
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19781977197719761976
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS:
Christine de Pizan Society
Dante Society of America
International Arthurian Society
International Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study-Princeton
Medieval Academy of America
Modern Language Association
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
South Central Modern Language Association
Texas Medievalist Association (Plenary Lecturer, Member for Life)
PROGRAMS, SESSIONS, AND CONFERENCES CHAIRED AND ORGANIZED:
Chair and Organizer, Session on “Myth and Myth-Reception in the Middle Ages,” at the
International Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12, 2007.
Meta-Organizer, seven sessions for Tolkien at Kalamazoo, I. Tolkien's Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight; II. Religion and Tolkien; III. War and Exile in Tolkien; IV. Gender and Ethnicity
in Tolkien; V. Music and Language in Tolkien; VI. Style and Re-vision in Tolkien; VII.
Tolkien Unbound: A Reading of Verlyn Flieger’s adaptation of Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight, at the International Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval
Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2007 (and chair,
latter session).
Meta-Organizer, nine sessions for Tolkien at Kalamazoo: 1. Tolkien and Arthur;
2. The Postmodern Tolkien; 3. The Body in Middle-earth; 4. Tolkien: Subcreation, the
Sacraments, and Spirituality; 5. The Untaught Tolkien; 6. The Elegiac Tolkien; 7.
Tolkien and the Profession: Reception and Influence; 8. Tolkien and Other Hands:
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Popular and Visual Culture; and 9. Tolkien Unbound, at the International Annual
Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 4-7, 2006.
Organizer, Session on “Gender and Innovation in Medieval Women Writers,” at the International
Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 4-7, 2006.
Moderator, Uncanonicity: A Panel Discussion, with Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger, Marjorie
Burns, Tolkien at Kalamazoo: Un-Tolkien, International Annual Congress on Medieval
Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5-8,
2005.
Meta-Organizer, Six sessions for Tolkien at Kalamazoo on “Un-Tolkien,” (1 & 2) Tolkien’s
Unacknowledged Influences (Medieval/Modern) (3) Tolkien and his Contemporaries in
Fantasy (3) The Unfinished in Tolkien (4) The “Insignificant” in Tolkien (5)
Uncanonicity: A Panel Discussion (Moderator) and (6) The Reel Tolkien;
http://www.tolkienkzoo.org, at the International Annual Congress on Medieval Studies,
Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5-8, 2005.
Moderator, Panel on Tolkien(’s) Art (Ted Nasmith): The Modern Middle Ages? , International
Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 6-9, 2004.
Meta-Organizer, with Co-Organizer Alfred Siewers, Five Sessions on “Tolkien’s Modern
Middle Ages,” 1: Tolkien and Nineteenth-Century Medievalism: Specific Organizer:
Brad Eden, 2: Tolkien and Modern Issues/Ideologies: Specific Organizer: Rebekah Long,
3: Neomedievalism: Tolkien and Modern Fantasy: Specific Organizers, Douglas A.
Anderson and Margaret Sinex, 4: The Postmodern Tolkien, Specific Organizer: Gergely
Nagy, 5: Tolkien(‘s) Art: The Modern Middle Ages?, Jane Chance, and moderator,
International Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 6-9, 2004. http://www.tolkienkzoo.org
Meta-Organizer, Five Sessions on “Tolkien and the Discourses of Medieval Culture”:
“Philosophy and Theology,” With Co-Organizer Brad Eden, University of Las Vegas;
“Orality,” with Gergely Nagy, University of Szeged, “Manuscript Analogues,” with
Sandra Straubhaar, University of Texas-Austin, “Historiography and Narratology,” With
Rebekah Long, Duke University, and “The Other World,” with Douglas Anderson,
Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-11, 2003.
Organizer, Showing of Hrafn Gunnlaugsson’s “In the Shadow of the Raven” and Question and
Answer Session with (and reception for) the Director, Media Center, Rice University,
Houston, TX 77005, Oct. 18, 2002.
Organizer, “Behind the Film: The Mythology of Tolkien’s Middle-earth,” OCS course, Rice
University, Sept. 24-Oct. 16, 2002.
Organizer, Two Sessions on “Women Medievalists in the Academy,” Congress on Medieval
Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 3, 2002.
Organizer, Four Sessions on “J. R. R. Tolkien: The Emergence of Myth” (I. Tolkien and the
Classical, II. Tolkien and Old Norse, III. Tolkien and Old English, and IV. Tolkien and
the Kalevala), 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4, 2002
(http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/tolkzoo.htm)
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Moderator, Session on “Tolkien and Old English,” in Sponsored Session on “J. R. R. Tolkien:
The Emergence of Myth,” “37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval
Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4, 2002
Moderator, Session on “Women Medievalists in the Academy,” 37th International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI,
May 3, 2002.
Organizer, Three Sessions on “J. R. R. Tolkien: Texts, Contexts, Retextualizations,” 36th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5, 2001.
Introducer for Speaker (Dayle Seidenspinner-Nuñez), Rice University Symposium on “Hispanic
Women Writers: Medieval Legacies,” organized by Rafael M. Mérida-Jiménez, Houston,
TX, Feb. 15, 2001.
Moderator, Session on “Linguistic, Artistic, Theatrical Relationships” at the Graduate Student
Symposium on Literature and History, Rice University, Houston, Feb. 3, 2001.
Moderator, Session, Christine de Pizan IV International Colloquium, University of Glasgow,
Glasgow, Scotland, July 25, 2000.
Organizer, Two Sessions; Moderator, One Session; and Sponsor, Reception Following, for
"Women Medievalists: An Oral History of Women in the Academy," Including Papers by
Charity Cannon Willard, Joan Ferrante, Sheila Delany, Mary McLaughlin, Jo Ann
McNamara, and Constance Berman, 35th International Conference on Medieval Studies,
Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4, 2000.
Moderator, Session on "Women and Literacy in the Middle Ages," organized by Susan DykstraPoel, Boydell and Brewer, Ltd., 35th International Conference on Medieval Studies,
Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5, 2000.
Moderator, Symposium on Hrotsvit 2000 (Hrotsvit of Gandersheim) (For the Participants in the
1997 NEH Summer Institute on "The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women"), Santa
Clara University, Santa Clara, California, Feb. 12, 2000.
Moderator, Session on "Between East and West: Genders and Nations in the Middle Ages,"
Organized by Geraldine Heng, 34th International Conference on Medieval Studies,
Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8, 1999.
Organizer, Tolkien Readings, Rice Symphonic Band Performance of Johan de Meij's "Lord of
the Rings," Rice University, Houston, TX, Feb. 21, 1999.
Moderator, Session on “The Reception of Feminist Scholarship in Medieval Literary Study,”
Sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship and Organized by
Regina Psaki, Modern Language Association, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 27, 1998.
Moderator, Lecture by Richard Emmerson on “Hildegard and the Apocalyptic,” and Host,
Medieval Studies Participant Reception and Dinner, Symposium on Hildegard of Bingen:
Identity and Reception, Neil O'Brien, Biennial Symposium on Medieval Studies, Rice
University, Houston, TX, Nov. 21, 1998.
Organizer, Session on “The F-Word and Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Women: The
Feminist Problematic,” with Participants from the 1997 NEH Summer Institute on “The
Literary Traditions of Medieval Women,” Sponsored by Rice University and Directed by
Jane Chance, Annual Conference of South Central Modern Language Association, Zavier
University and Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 13, 1998.
Moderator, Session on English Literature, Fourth Annual Meeting of the International Society
for Classical Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany, July 29, 1998
Moderator, Session on “Women’s Lyric Voices in Chaucer,” Biennial Conference, New Chaucer
Society, University of Paris, Sorbonne, Paris, France, July 20, 1998.
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Organizer and Moderator, Two Sessions, on “Chaucer and Christine de Pizan,” and “Staging,
Performance, Spectacle: Medieval Women in the Classroom,” with Participants from the
1997 NEH Summer Institute on “The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women,”
International
Medieval Congress, International Medieval Institute, University of Leeds, England, July
15, 1998.
Organizer, Session on “Gender, National Identity, and Cultural Diversity: Medieval and Early
Modern European Women and the Feminized Other” with Participants from the 1997
NEH Summer Institute on “The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women,” Second
International Conference, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Department of Sociology and
Social Psychology/Network Cultural Studies, University of Tampere, Tampere,
Finland, June 29, 1998.
Moderator, Session on “Language and the Body in the Medieval Women Mystics,” Sponsored
by Mystics Quarterly and Organized by Alexandra Barratt, with Participants from the
1997 NEH Summer Institute on “The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women,”
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9, 1998.
Organizer, Two Sessions, on “Teaching Medieval Women in Introductory Courses” and
“Staging Hrotsvit in the Classroom,” with Participants from the 1997 NEH Summer
Institute on “The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women,” International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI,
May 7-8, 1998.
Organizer and Chair, Session on “Myth and Gender in the Middle Ages,” Fourth Annual
Interdisciplinary Conference, on “Peace, Negotiation, and Reciprocity: Strategies of CoExistence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, Tempe, Arizona, Feb. 13, 1998.
Organizer, 9-Week Course on “Women in the Middle Ages,” Office of Continuing Studies, Rice
University, Houston, Tx, Jan. 29-Mar. 24, 1998.
Organizer, Session on “The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women,” with Participants in the
1997 NEH Institute on “The Literary Traditions of Medieval Women,” Conference on
Gender and Creativity in the Middle Ages, Harris Manchester College, Oxford
University, Oxford, Jan. 6, 1998.
Organizer and Moderator, Panel on “Faculty Rights and the University,” Sponsored by Texas
Faculty Association and Allied Organizations in the Greater Houston Area, Houston, TX,
Nov. 20, 1997.
Organizer and Moderator, Panel on “Faculty Sanctions and Dismissal: The University as Big
Brother? (A Forum on Academic Freedom, Tenure Erosion, and the Modern University),
Sponsored by Texas Faculty Association/Rice University Faculty, Rice University,
Houston, TX, Oct. 23, 1997.
Organizer and Moderator, Roundtable on "Teaching Medieval Women: Canonicity and the
Text" by Participants in the 1997 NEH Summer Institute on "The Literary Traditions of
Medieval Women," Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN, Sept. 26, 1997.
Organizer and Moderator, Session on "Teaching Medieval Women through Contemporary
Film”" with Participants in the 1997 NEH Summer Institute on "The Literary Traditions
of Medieval Women," Medieval Association of the Midwest, University of Iowa, Iowa
City, IA, Sept. 20, 1997.
Invited Moderator, Panel on “The Legal Implications of Post-Tenure Review, “ with Ralph
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Farabee, General Counsel, University of Texas System, Scott Kelly, Assistant Counsel,
Texas A & M System, and Larry Daves, Larry Daves & Associates, Annual Meeting of
the Texas Faculty Association, Feb. 15, 1996, Austin, TX.
Chair, Session on "Medieval English Vernacular Literature," Rocky Mountain Medieval and
Renaissance Association Meeting, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, May 11, 1995.
Chair, Session on Old English Heroines, Southeastern Medieval Assciation Meeting, Loyola
University/University of New Orleans, New Orleans, La., September 25, 1993.
Organizer and Chair, Session on "Essentialism and Gender Analysis," Medieval Feminist
Newletter Symposium, Twenty-seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8, 1992.
Organizer and Chair, Session on "A Fifteenth-Century Middle English Poetic?", Twenty-sixth
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 11, 1991.
Organizer and Chair, Medieval Studies Seminar on "Writing Women, Women Writing: Gender
and Text in the Middle Ages," Medieval Studies Seminar and Faculty Feminist Reading
Group, Center for Cultural Studies, Rice University, Houston, Texas, Jan. 26, l991.
Moderator, Seminar on "Medieval Feminine Spirituality," Faculty Feminist Reading Group, Rice
University, Houston, Tex., Jan. 15, 1991.
Chair, Session on "Post-Chaucerian Medieval Literature," International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 10,
1990.
Faculty Sponsor, Sixth Annual English Department Graduate Symposium on Literary Criticism
and Theory, Rice University, Houston, Tex., Feb. 16-17, l990.
Organizer and Chair, Medieval Studies of the Center for Cultural Studies, Workshop on
"Imitation and Invention in the Middle Ages," Rice University, Houston, Tex., Jan. 20,
l990.
Provost's Representative, Provost's Reception for the SEMA Conference, Rice University,
Houston, Tex., Oct. 21, 1989.
Chair, Session on "Teaching, Editing, and Reception of the Middle Ages," SEMA Conference,
Rice University, Houston, Tex., Oct. 20, l989.
Chair, Annual Scientia Bochner Lecture, Rice University, Houston, Tex., October 3, 1989.
Chair, Session on "Mothers and Sons in the Middle Ages and Renaissance," in Symposium on
Feminist and Medieval Studies, sponsored by Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Twentythird International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7, 1988.
Organizer and Chair, Session on "Gender and Voice: Myth, Legend, Mythography," in
Symposium on Feminist and Medieval Studies, sponsored by Medieval Feminist
Newsletter, Twenty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7, 1988.
Chair, TEAMS Panel on Teaching Graduate Students: A Roundtable, Twenty-third International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 5,
1988.
Organizer, Visiting Byzantinist (Milos Velimirovic, University of Virginia), "Byzantium in
Houston," NEH/Medieval Academy/Dumbarton Oaks/Rice University Center for
Cultural Studies), Rice University, Houston, Tex., March 13-19, 1988.
Moderator, Panel Discussion on the Teaching of Chivalry in the Session on Introducing General
Education Students to Medieval Studies, Sponsored by the Medieval Association of the
Midwest, Midwest Modern Language Association, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. l2, 1987.
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Organizer, Session on "Feminist Mythography," Twenty-second International Conference on
Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
Mich., May 8, l987.
Chair, TEAMS Session on Teaching Medieval Costume, Twenty-second International
Conference on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7, 1987.
Organizer, Mellon Seminar Callback on Modern Women Writers, Rice University, Houston,
Tex., Nov. l4-l5, l986.
Organizer and Chair, Session on "Teaching Middle English Literature," SCMA Convention,
New Orleans, Louisiana, October 31, l986.
Organizer, Session on "Mythography and Chaucerian Poetry," The Classics in the Middle Ages,
Twentieth Annual CEMERS Conference on Medieval Studies, SUNY-Binghamton,
Binghamton, N.Y., Oct. 19, l986.
Organizer and Chair, Two Sessions on "Mythography": "Classical Fable and Vernacular
Literature" and "The End of Mythography," at the Twenty-first International Conference
on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 10, l986.
Organizer, Four TEAMS Sessions on Teaching the Middle Ages--Teaching Medieval Music to
the Non-Musician: Two Examples; Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Middle
Ages; Innovative Assignments; The Making and Uses of a "Prologue to Chaucer"
(Videotape); Twenty-first International Conference on Medieval Studies, The Medieval
Institute, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8-9, l986.
Organizer and Chair, Session on "Teaching Chaucer," New Chaucer Society, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, March 22, 1986.
Organizer, Session on Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Modern
Language Association Convention, Chicago, Ill., Dec. 28, 1985.
Organizer and Chair, Symposium on "Contemporary Literary Theory and the Middle English
Lyric," Rice University, Houston, Tex., Sept. 20, l985.
Organizer and Chair, Reading Chaucer Aloud Session, Symposium on Pedagogy and Curricular
Resources in Medieval Studies (TEAMS/CARA, Medieval Academy), Twentieth
International Conference on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo,
Mich., May 11, 1985.
Organizer, Chaucer and Mythography Session, Twentieth International Conference on Medieval
Studies, The Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 10, l985.
Chair, MMLA Session on Chaucer's General Prologue, Twentieth International Conference on
Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
Mich., May 9, l985.
Organizer, Mythography and Literature Session, The Fifth Citadel Conference on Literature:
The Poetry, Drama, and Prose of the Renaissance and Middle Ages, The Citadel,
Charleston, South Carolina, March 15, l985.
Chair, Session on Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Symposium on
Pedagogy and Curricular Resources in Medieval Studies (TEAMS-CARA, Medieval
Academy), Nineteenth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, MI May 11, 1984.
Organizer, Arranger, and Reader, "Dante in Word and Music," Palmer Episcopal Church,
Houston, Tex., March 22, 1983.
Organizer, Session on Medievalism in the Twentieth Century, Eighth Annual Conference of the
Southeastern Medieval Association, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex.,
October 16, 1982.
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Organizer, The Rice Medieval Club Programs, Rice University, Houston, Tex., 1981-88.
CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, READINGS:
“Unhomely Margery Kempe,” in Mystics Quarterly Session II: Literary Mysticism: Imagery,
Rhetoric, Voice, organized by Robert Hasenfrantz, 42nd Annual international Congress
on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 12, 2007.
“`In the Company of Men’: Peter Jackson’s Queer Tolkien,” Session on “Reconsidering
Sexuality,” Annual Rice Graduate Student Symposium: Pathologies, Houston, TX,
March 17, 2007.
With Joe Campana, Panel Discussion, “Serving Two Masters” (on the difficulties and
advantages of balancing creative and academic work), Poetry and Poetics Colloquium,
English Department, Rice University, January 22, 2007.
Invited panelist: “Women Chaucerians and the Academy,” Panel on “Gender and Historicism in
Chaucer,” organized by Elizabeth Scala, University of Texas, Biennial Chaucer
Conference, New York City, NY, July 31, 2006.
“Gender Inversions in the Scholastic Allegories of Marguerite Porete and Christine de Pizan,”
6e Colloque internationale sur Christine de Pizan/ 6th International Colloquium on
Christine de Pizan,” University of Paris-Denis Diderot, Paris, France, July 20, 2006.
Reading Ellie, Character in Verlyn Flieger’s “Green Hills,” in a session entitled “Tolkien
Unbound,” organized by Jane Chance, 41st Annual International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 5, 2006.
“Marguerite Porete’s Feminized Fantasy of an Inverted Church in The Mirror of Simple Souls,”
in a Session organized by Jane Chance, “Gender and Innovation in Medieval Literary
Studies,” 41st Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 4, 2006.
Introducer, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,”
“L’Inferno,” “The Navigator, A Medieval Odyssey,” and “The White Vikings,” Medieval
Film Series, Rice University, Houston, TX, Selected Sundays, Fall-Spring, 2005-6.
“Marie de France versus King Arthur: Gender Inversion as Cultural Subversion in the Breton
Lay `Lanval,’” Session on Ideology in Arthurian Romance, International Triennial
Congress on Arthurian Studies, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25,
2005.
Solicited paper, “Tolkien and the Other: Gender and Race in Middle-earth,” Session on “Tolkien
Our Contemporary” organized by Ralph Wood, Baylor University, Conference on
Christianity and Literature, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 27-30, 2004.
“Tolkien and the Other: Gender and Race in Middle-earth,” in Session on “Neomedievalisms:
Tolkien and Modern Fantasy,” Tolkien at Kalamazoo (5 sessions), Medieval Institute,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6-9, 2004.
“Coming Attractions: The Two Towers: The Mythology of Power,” in “Behind the Film: The
Mythology of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth,” Office of Continuing Studies, Rice
University, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2002.
Panelist, Roundtable on “Discerning the Hero and Heroic in Tolkien’s Epic,” in “Behind the
Film: The Mythology of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth,” Office of Continuing Studies,
Rice University, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002.
“Tolkien’s `Hobbitocentric’ Lord of the Rings: An Introduction through Peter Jackson’s Film of
the Fellowship of the Ring,” in “Behind the Film: The Mythology of J. R. R. Tolkien’s
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Middle-earth,” Office of Continuing Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX, Tuesday,
Oct. 8, 2002.
with Jessica Weinstein, "National Identity and Conversion through Medieval Romance: The
Case of Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's 'I Skugga Hrafnsins,'" Session on (and with film showing
of) Hrafn Gunnlaugsson’s “In the Shadow of the Raven,” Texas Medieval Association
Conference, St. Thomas University, Houston, Texas, Oct. 5, 2002.
Panelist, Panel on “The Gender Summit,” with Pittman Ross, Mary Jane Taegel, and Canon
Betty Adam, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, Texas, Sept. 24, 2002.
with Jessica Weinstein, "National Identity and Conversion through Medieval Romance: The
Case of Hrafn Gunnlaugsson's 'I Skugga Hrafnsins,'" Session on “Visualization of
Literary Heritage,” Conference on Sagas and Societies, sponsored by the Town Council
of Borgarnes, the Estonian Literary Museum, the Dept. of Nordic Philology at the
University of Tübingen (Germany), the Borgarfjörthur Museum Centre, the Research
Center of Snorri Sturluson and the Reykjavik Academy, and the Culture-2000 fund of the
European Commission, Bogarnes, Iceland., September 6, 2002.
“The Arthurian Knight Remythified: Gawain as Pygmalion, Lancelot as Amant, and Perceval as
Perseus,” International Congress of the Arthurian Literature Society, University of
Wales, Bangor, Wales, July 22, 2002.
Book-signing (Tolkien) and Discussion, Graphic Novels Discussion Group, Borders Book Store,
3700 Alabama, Houston, TX, Nov. 15, 2001.
Presentation about Research and Publication, “Methodologies,” in Susan Lurie’s Graduate
seminar, ”Introduction to Graduate Study,” Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, Nov.
22, 2001.
“Aristotle, Classical Myth, and Courtly Love: Évrart de Conty (1330-1405) and the Livre des
Eschecs amoureux moralisés,” in a session on the “Ovidian Arts of Love” sponsored by
the Societas Ovidiana, 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval
Institute, Western Michigan University, 4 May, 2001.
"The Legend of the Roman Virgin-Saint Agnes as Physician: Healing the Diseases of Leprosy
and Paganism in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim's Gallicanus," International Interdisciplinary
Conference on "Medieval Medicine: Texts, Practices, Institutions," Organized by the
Department of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies, University of Sofia (Bulgaria), Institute of
History, Croatian Academy of Sciences, Zagreb (Croatia), and Orthodox Theologian
Faculty at the University of Veliko Turnovo (Bulgaria), Sponsored by the Open Society,
Rila Monastery, Bulgaria, August 30, 2000.
“Medieval Mythography (the Commentary Tradition),” Central European University/CARA
(Medieval Academy of America), Summer Institute on Eastern European Medieval
Resources, Budapest, Hungary, July 31, 2000
"Illuminated Royal Manuscripts of the Early Fifteenth Century and Christine de Pizan's
Remythisization of Women in Cité des Dames," Christine de Pizan IV International
Colloquium, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, July 24, 2000.
“Hrotsvit’s Latin Drama Gallicanus and the Old English Cynewulfian Epic Elene: Intercultural
Founding Narratives of a Feminized Church," in a Session on Hrotsvit and Literary
Traditions, Hrotsvit 2000 Symposium (1997 NEH Institute on "The Literary Traditions of
Medieval Women" Follow-Up Symposium Organized by Phyllis Brown and Jane
Chance), Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, February 11, 2000.
"The NEH Institute on Medieval Women 2000" (Welcoming Banquet Dinner Speech on Hrotsvit
2000 Symposium) (1997 NEH Institute on "The Literary Traditions of Medieval
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Women" Follow-Up Symposium Organized by Phyllis Brown and Jane Chance), Santa
Clara University, Santa Clara, California, February 11, 2000.
Three Lectures, on "The Hero and the Quest," "Gendering Tolkien: The Unruly Women of The
Lord of the Rings," and "The Illustrated Tolkien: Tolkien's Life and Work in Art," for
"J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: A Guided Tour through Middle-earth," Six-Weeks
Lecture Series with Dr. Rajesh Shah; for the Office of Continuing Studies, Rice
University, Houston, TX, Sept. 22, Oct. 13, Oct. 27, 1999.
"Fabulizing Subjectivity: Individuation and the Incorporated Soul in Late Medieval
Mythography," Fellows Lecture, Center for the Study of Cultures, Rice University,
Houston, Texas, September 14, 1999.
Solicited Paper, “`Mine is Longer': Gender Difference and Female Authority in the Academy,”
with Norman Cantor, in a session on “Autobiographical Criticism in Medieval Studies”
Organized by Anne Clark Bartlett and Linda MacMillan, 34th International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6, 1999.
Introducer and Reader, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Performance of Johan de Meij, Symphony
No. 1, "The Lord of the Rings," Rice Symphonic Band, directed by Robert Cesario, Rice
University, Houston, TX, Feb. 21, 1999.
“Response to The Reception of Feminist Scholarship in Medieval Literary Study,” Sponsored by
the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship and Organized by Regina Psaki, Modern
Language Association, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 27, 1998.
“The F-Word as 'Fashion': Teaching the Sophomore Survey,” in a Session on “The F-Word and
Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Women: The Feminist Problematic,” Organized by
Jane Chance, with Participants from the 1997 NEH Summer Institute on “The
Literary Traditions of Medieval Women,” Sponsored by Rice University and Directed by
Jane Chance, Annual Conference of South Central Modern Language Association, Zavier
University and Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 13, 1998.
“The Translator and the Return to the Mother (Tongue): The Linguistic Castration of the Female
in Fifteenth-Century Translations of Christine de Pizan,” in a Session Organized on
“Gender,
National Identity, and Cultural Diversity: Medieval and Early Modern European Women
and the Feminized Other” with Participants from the 1997 NEH Summer Institute on
“The
Literary Traditions of Medieval Women,” Second International Conference, Crossroads
in Cultural Studies, Department of Sociology and Social Psychology/Network Cultural
Studies, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, June 29, 1998.
“Looking for Shakespeare’s Sister: Medieval Women Writers,” Rice University Alumni College
Lecture, Houston, TX, March 27, 1998.
“Christine de Pizan’s Illuminations” (Slide Lecture), Course on “Women in the Middle
Ages,” Office of Continuing Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX, March 18, 1998.
“Mediating between Classical Myth and Christian Allegory: The Feminized Subject in The
Assembly of Gods,” Session Organized on “Myth and Gender in the Middle Ages,”
Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, on “Peace, Negotiation, and Reciprocity:
Strategies of Co-Existence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” Arizona Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, Arizona, Feb. 13, 1998.
Invited Panelist, Roundtable on “Teaching Gower,” Sponsored by the Gower Society and
organized by Robert Yeager, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8, 1997.
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“Speaking in propria persona: Authorizing the Subject as a Political Act in Late Medieval
Feminine Spirituality,” Feminism Today: A Houston Conference, Rice University
Feminist Reading Group, Organized by Colleen Lamos and Tammy Whitlock, Rice
University, Houston, TX April 12, 1997.
Invited Panelist, “On Books…On Writing,” moderated by Charles Henry, Vice Provost, Rice
University, Faculty Authors Reception, Friends of Fondren Library, Rice University,
Houston, TX, Jan. 29, 1997.
“Speaking in propria persona: Authorizing the Subject as a Political Act in Late Medieval
Feminine Spirituality,” Session on “Responses to the Beguines,” Conference on New
Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The European Impact of the Holy Women of Liége,
Organized by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Juliette D’Or, and Lesley Johnson, Université de
Liège, Liège, Belgium, Dec. 12, 1996.
Invited Talk, “The Game of Monopoly and the Importance of Algebra,” 7th Grade Algebra Class,
The Rice School/La Escuela Rice, Houston, TX, Feb. 26, 1996.
“Gender Subversion and Linguistic Castration in Fifteenth-Century English Translations of
Christine de Pizan,” Rice University Graduate Student Symposium on Literary Criticism
and Theory, Houston, TX, Feb. 10, 1996.
"The Politics of the Text: Positionality in Chaucerian Feminism,” Graduate Student Symposium,
Rice University, Houston, Tex., Feb. 11, 1995.
"Subjectivity under Couverture: Heresy and Gender Subversion in Two Late Medieval French
Mythographers," Fellows Lunch Presentation Seminar, Humanities Center, University of
Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 19, 1995.
"The Politics of the Text: Positionality in Chaucer, or, When Allen Frantzen Isn't Enough,"
Session on "Feminist Debates in Chaucer," Organized by Elaine Tuttle Hansen, New
Chaucer Society, Trinity College-University of Dublin, Ireland, July 24, 1994.
Solicited Paper, "Feminizing Literary Reception: The Influence of Christine de Pizan on The
Assembly of Ladies," First International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, Leeds,
England, July 7, 1994.
"Fear of Feminists," Talk to Women's Interest Network-Rice, Rice University, Houston, Tex.,
April 13, 1994.
"Chivalry and the Other," Graduate Symposium on Literary Criticism and Theory, Rice
University, Houston, Tex., Feb. 5, 1994.
Solicited Paper, "Gender Subversion and Erasure in Fifteenth-Century English Translations of
Christine de Pizan," Session sponsored by the International Courtly Literature Society,
Organized by Jeanette Beer, Modern Language Association, New York, NY, Dec. 30,
1992.
Invited Paper, "Gender Trouble in the Garden of Deduit (Desire): Christine de Pizan Translating
the Rose," Rice University Medieval Club, Rice University, Houston, Tex., Nov. 11,
1992.
Solicited Paper, "The Decanonization of Old English Literature: Taking the Gold Back to
Egypt," Session on Old and Middle English Literature Organized by Faye WalkerPelkey, South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 30, 1992.
Solicited Paper, "Gender Trouble in the Garden of Deduit: Christine de Pizan Translating the
Rose," Fourth Annual Purdue University Conference on Romance Languages,
Literatures, and Film, W. Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 15, 1992.
Invited Paper, "Power and Knowledge in Tolkien: The Problem of Difference in 'The Birthday
Party,'" Tolkien Centenary Conference, Keble College-Oxford University, Oxford,
England, Aug. 18, 1992.
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"Reading like/as a Woman: Christine de Pizan in Fifteenth-Century England," Session on
"Approaches to Teaching Christine de Pizan," 28th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 9, 1992.
"How to Publish a Seminar Paper and a Dissertation," Talk addressed to English Department
Graduate Student Association, Rice University, Houston, Tex., Feb. 15, 1991.
"How to Turn a Seminar Paper into a Dissertation," Talk addressed to English Department
Graduate Student Association, Rice University, Houston, Tex., Jan. 23, 1991.
Invited Paper,"Minerva as Mother in Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea," 11th Annual Barnard
Conference on the Middle Ages: "The Politics of Myth in the Middle Ages," Organized
by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski and Chris Baswell, Barnard College/Columbia
University, New York, N.Y., Nov. 11, l989.
"The Valorization of the Feminine in L'Epistre d'Othéa, Christine de Pizan's 'Ovid Moralized,'"
in a session on "Commentary/Gloss and the Uses of Text in the Middle Ages," The
Medieval Academy of America, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., April 15, 1989.
Invited Lecture, "The Valorization of the Feminine in L'Epistre d'Othéa, Christine de Pizan's
'Ovid Moralized,'" Delaware Valley Medieval Association, Princeton, N.J., Dec. 3, l988.
"The Virgilization of 'Ovid' and Boethius: Mythographic Exegesis in the Early Middle Ages,"
Medieval Seminar of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, N.J., Oct. 26, 1988.
A Dramatic Reading of Chaucer's Merchant's Tale (as Proserpina), in a Session on Reading
Middle English, Sixth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Vancouver,
British Columbia, August 12, l988.
"Chaucer on Satura: Tidynges, Integumentum, and Gender in the Manciple's Prologue and
Tale," in a Session on Genre: The Limitations of Medieval Literary Theory, Organized
by Rita Copeland, Sixth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Vancouver,
British Columbia, August 11, 1988.
"Dorigen as Narcissus: The Derke Fantasye of Chaucer's Franklin," Session on "Gender and
Voice: Myth, Legend, Mythography," in Symposium on Feminist Studies and Medieval
Literature, Twenty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7, 1988.
"An Example of Feminist Mythography: Criseyde as Myrrha, Io, Athamas in Troilus, Book
Four," English Department Graduate Student Symposium, Rice University, Houston,
Tex., Feb. 13, 1988.
Solicited Paper, Discussant of Britton J. Harwood, "Chaucer's Pardoner:The Dialectics of Inside
and Outside": "'Disfigured is thy Face': Chaucer's Pardoner and the Protean Shapeshifter
Faus Semblant," Session on Medieval Studies and Contemporary Critical Theory,
Organized by Martin Schichtman, Midwest Modern Language Association, Columbus,
Ohio, Nov. l4, 1987.
"The Wife of Bath's Mythography of Self," Session on Feminist Mythography, Twenty-Second
International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute-Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 8, l987.
Response to TEAMS Session on Approaches to Teaching Arthurian Literature, Twenty-second
International Conference on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 7, 1987.
Invited Speaker, for Woman as Hero in Old English Literature, Reception in Honor of Rice
University Faculty Authors with Books Published in 1985-86, Friends of Fondren
Library, Rice University, Houston, Tex., January 21, 1987.
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"Pandarus and Janus, 'God of Entree,' in Troilus and Criseyde, Book II," Session on
"Mythography and Chaucerian Poetry," Twentieth Annual CEMERS Conference, on The
Classics in the Middle Ages, State University of New York-Binghamton, Binghamton,
N.Y., October l7, l986.
Eight Lectures on "A Room of Their Own: Modern Women Writers," Mellon Workshop
Modern Women Writers, Rice University, Houston, Tex., May 19-30, l986.
"Creative Projects in Medieval Literature Courses," in a session on "Innovative Teaching
Assignments" (TEAMS), Twenty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 9, l986.
Invited Lecture, "Woman as Hero in Anglo-Saxon Literature," Society of Rice University
Women, Rice University, Houston, Tex., April 14, l986.
Invited Lecture, "One Day in the Life of a Medieval Knight," Serra Club (Catholic Men's
Organization), Houston, Tex., Jan. 10, l986.
"Surprised by Subtlety: A Survey of the Teaching of SGGK," in the Session on Approaches to
Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Modern Language Association Convention,
New York, N.Y., Dec. 28, 1985.
Panelist, with Harold Hymen, William Martin, and Angelo Miele, on "The Perils of Publishing,"
Friends of Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, Tex., Nov. 17, l985.
Twenty-Four lectures on "Chaucer and Mythography," National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Seminar for College Teachers, Rice University, Houston, Tex., June l8-Aug. 6,
l985.
"Chaucer's Zephirus and the Idea of the General Prologue," Chaucer and Mythography Session,
Twentieth International Conference on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute,
Kalamazoo, Mich., May 10, l985.
"The Name of the Rose: Life in the Medieval World," Six Lectures for the Office of Continuing
Studies, Rice University, Houston, Tex., March 29-April 30, 1985.
"Life in the Middle Ages," Alvin Van Black Talk Show, KPRC Radio Station, Houston, Tex.,
March 20, l985.
"Revising Macrobius on Fiction: The 'Fabulous Cosmogony' of William of Conches," Session
on Mythography and Literature, The Fifth Citadel Conference on Literature: The Poetry,
Drama, and Prose of the Renaissance and Middle Ages, The Citadel, Charleston, S.C.,
March 15-16, l985.
"A Room of Their Own: Modern Women Writers," Six Lectures for the Office of Continuing
Studies, Rice University, Houston, Tex., Jan. 29-Feb 5, l985.
"Chaucer and Mythography" (Overview of mythographic commentary tradition), Research-inProgress Session, New Chaucer Society Meeting, York, England, August 10, 1984.
"Courtly Love and Tolkien: Fantasy in the Middle Ages," Guest Lecture, Owlcon V, Science
Fiction and Fantasy Association, Rice University, Houston, Tex., February 24, l984.
Commentator, Session on "The Vikings in Iceland and England," Second Annual Conference of
the Haskins Society, University of Houston, Houston, Tex., November 12, 1983.
"The Unity of Christ I: The Use of Variation in Images of the Virgin Mary," Ninth Annual
Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Vir., October 7, 1983.
"The Role of the Queen as Freothuwebbe in the Anglo-Saxon Court," Conference on the
Medieval Court, University of Houston, Houston, Tex., March 3, 1983.
"Medieval Mythography in the Renaissance: Cristoforo Landino and the Judgment of Paris,"
Scientia Colloquium, Rice University, Houston, Tex., January 19, 1983.
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"The Judgment of Paris and Three Lives Topos in Cristoforo Landino's Disputationes
Camaldulenses, the Commentary on Dante, and De Vera Nobilitate," Fifth International
Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, St. Andrews University, Fife, Scotland, August 25, 1982.
"Uncer Giedd Geador: The Anglo-Saxon Woman as Scop in 'The Wife's Lament' and 'Wulf and
Eadwacer,'" Seventeenth International Conference on Medieval Studies, The Medieval
Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 6, 1982.
"Uncer Giedd Geador: The Anglo-Saxon Woman as Scop in 'The Wife's Lament' and 'Wulf and
Eadwacer,'" Texas Medieval Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Tex., March 26,
1982.
"Chaucer's Boethian Exegesis in Five Short Poems, 'The Former Age,' 'Fortune,' 'Lak of
Steadfastnesse,' 'Gentilesse,' and 'Truth.'" English Medieval Club, Rice University,
Houston, Tex., December 4, 1981.
"Chaucerian Irony in the Epistolary Short Poems 'Lenvoy a Scogan' and 'Lenvoy a Bukton',"
Sixth International Conference on Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies,
Villanova University, Villanova, Pa., Sept. 26, 1981.
"The Anglo-Saxon Woman as Hero: The Chaste Queen and Masculine Woman Saint," Session
on Old English Women Organized by Helen Damico, Old English Language and
Literature Division, Modern Language Association Convention, Houston, Tex.,
December 28, 1980.
"Moralized Virgil in Dante and Petrarch," Fifteenth International Conference on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 3, l980.
Original Poetry Reading, 1980 CCTE Convention, University of Texas, Austin, Tex., March 6,
l980.
"The Artist as Epic Hero in Alan of Lille's Anticlaudianus," Fourteenth International Conference
on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
Mich., May 3, l979.
Original Poetry Reading, English Department, Rice University, April 24, l979.
"The Role of the Narrator in Tolkien's Hobbit: 'The King under the Mountain'," English
Department Reader/Audience Response Colloquium, Rice University, Feb. 3, l979.
"The Epic Origins of Medieval Mythography," Thirteenth Annual Conference on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 5, 1978.
"Chaucer's Short Poems: An Introduction," University College, London, London, England, Nov.
10, 1977.
"The Critic as Monster: Tolkien's Lectures, Prefaces, and Foreword," Twelfth Annual
Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., May
7, 1977.
"William Dunbar's Thrissil and the Rois: The Swain as Philosopher-king," Second Triennial
Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society, University of Georgia, Athens,
Ga., March 31, 1977.
Solicited Paper, "The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother,"
Southeastern Medieval Association, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.,
March 25, 1977.
"The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother," Third Annual Conference
on Medieval Studies, John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 11, 1976.
"The Unity of Beowulf: The Monsters as Antitypes," English Department, Rice University,
Houston, Tex., Jan. 12, 1973.
Poetry Reading, English Department, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., April 28, l966.
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TEACHING HONORS:
Note: Public Magna and Summa Cum Laude teaching listings ceased at Rice after 1997
Panelist, Beer Debates, Rice Student Program Council
Mar. 28, 2006
1979 Rice Alumni (25th) Reunion Faculty Guest
Nov. 8-9, 2004
"Summa Cum Laude" Listing (Top 10% of Rice Courses)
English 283: “Women Writers from 1400-1900”
fall 1997
“Geoffrey Chaucer” (undergraduate course)
fall, 1995
"Speaking Two Languages: Old English and Contemporary Theory"
(graduate seminar)
spring 1994
"Reading like/as a Woman: Christine de Pizan in Fifteenth Century
England" (graduate seminar)
fall 1991
Rice University Allison Sarofim Distinguished Faculty Teaching Fellow, Workshop on
"Interpreting the Humanities at Rice"
fall 1995
"Magna Cum Laude" Listing (Top 25% of Rice Courses)
"Gender and Power in Old English Literature"
fall 1991, spring 1994
"Arthurian Literature"
fall 1986, 1990
"Dante"
spring 1983
"Old English"
fall 1983
"Critical Reading and Writing" (The Heroic Quest)
fall 1983
Brown Teaching Grant (from the Undergraduate Teaching Committee,
Rice) to develop new course, "Introduction to Medieval Culture"
1985
Courses Taught:
Rice University, Graduate:
Beowulf
Chaucer and the Learned Tradition http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/chaucer.html
Chaucer and the Subversive Other: Women, Gender, Class, Nation, Religion
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/ch.htm
Chaucer, Theory vs. History: New Readings of Chaucer and the 14th Century
Dante
Feminist Mythography: Chaucer and Christine de Pizan
Gender and Power in Old English Literature
Introduction to Medieval Culture
The Medieval Dream and Vision
Medieval Women Writers http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/medwom.html
Middle English Literature and the Invention of Subjectivity
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/me.htm
Pedagogy for Graduate Students http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/pedagogy.html
Pro-Seminar in Middle English Literature
Old English
Old English and Contemporary Theory: Speaking Two Languages
Reading like/as a Woman: Christine de Pizan in Fifteenth-Century England
Rice University, Undergraduate:
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Arthurian Literature http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/arthurian.htm
Christine de Pizan in Fifteenth-Century England http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/christin.html
Classical Mythology in Medieval Literature: Misogyny, Literacy, and Mythography
Dante http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/dante.htm
Geoffrey Chaucer http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/chaucer3.htm Also:
Chaucer and the Peasants' Revolt
Chaucer and the Subversive Other: Women, Gender, Class, Nation, Religion
Geoffrey Chaucer and the Construction of Dissent
The Social Chaucer
Images of Women in Literature (Modern Women Writers)
Introduction to Medieval Culture(s) (Foundation Course, Medieval Studies Major)
(now Medieval Cultures Through Film)
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/med_cult.html
J. R. R. Tolkien http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/tol2006.pdf
Middle English Literature
Medieval Women Writers http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/mewom.htm
Mythologies http://www.ruf.rice.edu/jchance/myth.htm
Old English; also taught as Gender and Power in Old English Literature
Women Writers from 1400 to 1900 http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/womsurvey3.htm
Link for Syllabus for Engl 283: “Women Writers from 1400-1900”
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~jchance/womsurvey.html), Women and Society Internet
Reference Project, http://www.womenandsociety.buffalo.edu/html, 2001.
Introductory Courses, Rice University, University of Saskatchewan, University of Illinois:
British Women Writers from 1400 to 1900
Critical Reading and Writing (topic varies)
Surreal and Absurd Literature
Classical Mythology and Modern Literature
The Heroic Quest
Fantasy and Impossible Worlds
The Theme of Pride
Odd Couples
Freshman Literature course in Proseminar Program, University of Illinois
Sophomore British Survey: From Chaucer to 1800
DISSERTATIONS AND THESES DIRECTED AND READ (in English unless otherwise
indicated)
Director, Elizabeth A. Cooper, “Chaucer’s Mythologies of Theseus,” B.A. Honors Thesis in
English, Rice University, 2008.
Director, Jessica Weinstein, “The Sibylline Voices of Christine de Pizan,” Ph.D. diss. Rice
University, Jan., 2007.
Director, Josh Cooley, “Reason Versus Love: The Gendering of Personification Allegory in the
Middle Ages,” B.A. Honors Thesis in English, Rice University, 2006.
Director, Mary Zimmer, "`Petty Magic to Experiment:’ The Scientific Revolution's Closing of
this World to the Next,” Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 2004.
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Outside Examiner, Suzannah Biernoff, “Ocular Desires: Sight and Embodiment in the Middle
Ages,” Ph. D. diss. in Design, Architecture, and Building, University of Technology,
Sydney, Australia, 1999. Published by Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002.
Third Reader, Georgeta Georgescu, “Les Visages du Héros: L’Initiation dans les Romans de
Chrétien de Troyes,” Ph.D. diss. in French, Rice University, 1998.
Director, Gretchen Lutz, Ph.D. "The Feminine Corpus in the Child Collection of English and
Scottish Popular Ballads," Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1998.
Second Reader, Constantina Michalos, “’You Shall Hear the Nightingale Sing On As in Pain’:
The Philomela Myth as Metaphor of Transformation and Resistance in Susan Glaspell
and Alice Walker,” Ph. D. diss., Rice University, 1996.
Director, Deborah Ausman, "Translation as Conversion, or Making the Phoenix 'Male':
Christianity and Gender in the Old English Phoenix and its Source," M.A. Thesis, Rice
University, 1995.
Director, Ann Bradley, "Sarpedoun's Feast: A Homeric Key to Chaucer's Troilus," Ph.D. diss.,
Rice University, 1995.
Director, David Day, "'Hafa nu ond geheald husa selest': Jurisdiction and Justice in Beowulf,"
Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1992.
Director, Jennifer Miller, "Beowulf: The Christianization of a Pagan Hero," B.A. Honors Thesis,
Rice University, 1992.
Director, Faye Walker-Pelkey, "Gender Nominalized: Unmanning Men, Disgendering Women
in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women," Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1991.
Director, Kathryn Hitchcox (†), "Alchemical Discourse in the Canterbury Tales: Signs of Gnosis
and Transmutation," Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1988.
Director, Laura McRae, "Chaucer's Legend of Good Women: New Perspectives and
Comparisons," B.A. Senior Honors Thesis, Rice University, 1988.
Director, Lois Jean Carlisle, "Sassure's and Derrida's Anti-Metaphysics: A Reading of Plato's
Cratylus," Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1987.
Director, Nancy A. Chmaitelli, "The Theme of Synagogue and Ecclesia and the Whore of
Babylon in the Visual Arts and in the Poetry of Dante and Chaucer: A Background Study
for Chaucer's Wife of Bath," Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1986.
Director, Laura F. Hodges, "Chaucer's Costume Rhetoric in the Portrait of the Prioress," Ph.D.
diss., Rice University, 1985. Two books: Chaucer and Costume: The Secular Pilgrims in
the General Prologue (D.S. Brewer, 2000); Chaucer and Clothing: Clerical and Academic
Costume in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (D. S. Brewer, 2005).
Director, Cindy Vitto, "The Figure of the Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature," Ph.D.
diss., Rice University, 1985. Winner of Gardner Prize for the Best Dissertation in the
Humanities and Social Sciences in l985; published by American Philosophical Society as
The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature (1989). Co-ed., The Rusted Hauberk:
Feudal Ideals of Order and their Decline (UPF, 1994); Co-ed., New Views of Criseyde
(2006).
Director, Barbara Huval, "Anglo-Saxon Diction and Word-Play in the Poems of the GawainPoet," Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1985.
Director, Anne C. Morris, "Bernard of Clairvaux and the Structure of Love in Dante's
Commedia, M.A. thesis, Rice University, 1984.
Director, Elizabeth J. MacDaniel, "The Idea of Order and Unity in Mandeville's Travels," M.A.
thesis, Rice University, 1984.
Director, Catherine Turman Wildermuth, "Innocence, Suffering, and Sensibility: The Narrative
Function of the Pathetic in Chaucer's Tales of the Clerk, Prioress, and Physician," Ph.D.
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diss., Rice University, 1984.
Director, Graciella S. Daichman, "The Figure of the Wayward Nun in Late Medieval Literature:
The Ambiguous Portraits of the Archpriest of Hita's Dona Garoza and Chaucer's Madame
Eglentyne," Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1983. Published in l986 by Syracuse University
Press as Wayward Nuns in Medieval Literature.
Director, Ted Paul Reed, "Malory's Mordred as Hero," M.A. thesis, Rice University, 1982.
Director, Gregory J. Schrand, "The Franciscan and Dominican Aesthetics in Middle English
Religious Lyric Poetry," Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1982.
Director, Joseph M. Ricke, "The Antichrist Vita at the End of the Middle Ages: A Critical
Edition of Wynkyn de Worde's Byrthe and Lyfe of the Moost Deceytfull Antechrist,"
Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1982.
Director, Liam O. Purdon, "Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-Century English Short Verse
Romance as Mirror of Morality," Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 198l. Two Books: ed., The
Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideals of Order and their Decline (UPF, 1994); and The
Wakefield Master’s Dramatic Art: A Drama of Spiritual Understanding (UPF, 2003).
Director, Granville Sydnor Hill, "The Hagiographic Narrators of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales: The Second Nun, The Man of Law, The Prioress," Ph.D. diss., Rice University,
1977.
Director, John Raymond McCully, Jr., "Conceptions of Piers Plowman: 1550s through 1970s,"
Ph.D. diss., Rice University, 1976.
Director, Michael D. Ford, "Old Age in Fourteenth Century English Poetry: A Medieval
Didactic Portrayal of the Theme of Decay," M.A. thesis, University of Saskatchewan,
1972.
Also: Second Reader for M.A. Thesis by Rachel Englerth, English (dir. Edward Doughtie), and
for Ph.D. dissertation by Margaret Wong, English (dir. William Piper); Third Reader, History
Ph.D. dissertations by Mary Winkler (dir. Charles Garside) and Dean James (dir. Katherine
Drew).
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
University:
Director, Medieval Studies Program
2005-7
Mentor, Rice Century Scholar Michael Esquivel, The Holy Grail
Fall, 2006
Rice University Young Alumni Association Guest Lecture, “The Endless Endings of Peter
Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings,” Prior to Film Exhibit Tour, Houston Museum of
Natural Science, Houston, TX,
June 21, 2005
Member, Gardner Dissertation Award Committee
2005,
2007
Rice Alumni Weekend Lecture, “J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Fantasist: `I am in fact a hobbit,’”
Notable Persons Stream, Rice University, Houston, TX,
Feb. 26, 2005
1979 Rice Alumni 25th Reunion Faculty Guest
Nov. 8-9, 2004
Judge, Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium Poster Sessions
2004, 2005
Judge (Essay), Rice University Undergraduate Literary Contest
2004
Rice University Alumni College Lecture, on “Tolkien and the Re-Making of the Middle Ages:
The Film and the Book,” Medieval Fact and Fiction Track, Rice University, Houston,
TX,
March 1, 2003
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Mentor, Rice Century Scholar Ben Burford, Target Reader, Greenwood Guides to Historic
Events in the Medieval World, 2002-4
Mentor, Rice Century Scholar Chrystan Skefos,Mythology, Myth-Making, and Mythography,
2002-3
Mentor, Rice Century Scholar Andy Dimond, Mythology, Myth-making, and Mythography:
2001-2003
Mentor, Rice Century Scholar (Emily Jones [Emmett]), Library of Medieval Women, 2001-2
Member, University Committee on Computers
1999-2000, 1985-87
Member, Hildegard of Bingen Symposium Committee, Medieval Studies Workshop
1997-98
President’s Lecture Series University Committee
1996-97
Judge (Line, Beer, or Finish Line), Annual Residential College Beer-Bike Race
1996-98
Endowment of Julia Mile Chance Prize for Teaching Excellence, Rice University
1996Awards to
Robert Roux, Chair of Keyboard and Professor of Piano, Shepherd School of Music,
2006
Mikki Hebl, Psychology, 2005;
no prize awarded, 2004;
Yldis Bayazitoglu, Mechanical Engineering, 2003;
Jennifer West, Bio-Engineering, 2002;
Kathleen Winkler, Violin, Shepherd School of Music, 2001;
Devika Subramanian, Computer Science, 2000;
Elizabeth Long, Sociology, 1999;
Katharine Ensor, Statistics, 1998;
Joan Strassman, Biochemistry, 1997;
Karin Broker, Art History, 1996
Faculty Mentor, Ben Glassman, Research and Essay on the Anglo-Saxon Queen Aethelthryth,
Rice University Undergraduate Scholars Program, Houston, TX 1995-96.
Faculty Sponsor: Science Fiction and Fantasy Club; Women's Interest Network-Rice (WINR);
Undergraduate Women's Group; Campus Pagan Society; Rice Women's Alliance
(Undergraduate Women's Group), 1998-2002; 1996-97; spring 1994; 1991-92
University Fringe Benefits Committee
1991-92
Coordinator, 1992 Rice University Bochner Lecture (Lynn Hunt), Scientia
1991-92
Member, Graduate Council
1990-91, 1983-85,
Subcommittee on Admissions and Recruiting
1990-91
Member, Feminist Reading Group and Program on the Study of Women and Gender
1988Founding Director, Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Program and Workshop of the Center for
Cultural Studies
1987-92
Founding, Elected, and Appointed Member, President's Commission on Women
1987-90
Commission Liaison, Taskforce on Campus Visibility of Women, Reporting on
Composition
of Search Committees
1987-89
Organizer and Spokesperson, Ad-hoc Steering Committee for the Rice University President's
Commission on Women
spring 1987
Member, University Committee on Writing Evaluation
spring l986
Chair, Subcommittee on the Computing Resource Center , University Committee on Computers,
1986-87
Member, Humanities Committee on Film Studies
1985-86
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Member, Jameson Bayou Bend Fellowship Committee
1985
Fondren Library Undergraduate Book Collection Judge
1984
Member, Mellon Medieval Studies Seminar and Search Committee
l984-86
Non-Resident Associate, Will Rice Residential College
1984-88
Member, University Self-Study Panel on Computers, and Chair, Subcommittee on Humanities
and Library
1983
Acting Director, Scientia, An Institute for the History of Science and Culture founded by
Salomon Bochner
1983-84
Secretary, Scientia
1982-83
Founding Director, Rice Medieval Club
l98l-87
Member, University Committee on Undergraduate Teaching
1979-1980
Faculty Advisor, Graduate Student Association
1979-1980
Member, Faculty Club Board of Directors
1979-1980
Member, Humanities Division Gardner Best Dissertation Award Committee
1976
Member, Scientia
1975-1993
Non-Resident Faculty Associate, Lovett Residential College
1974-78
Member, University Undergraduate Admissions Committee
1974-77
Department:
Speakers Committee
2006-7
Prizes Committee (Minter, Lady Geddes)
2004-5
Undergraduate Committee
2001-2002, 2005-7
Chair, Procedures Committee
1999-2000
Supervisor, Graduate Pedagogy
1998-99
Chair, Speakers Committee
1996-98
Reception Host, Graduate Symposium on Criticism and Theory
1994
Graduate Student Job Coordinator
1992
Moody Chair Search Committee
1989-90
Faculty Sponsor, English Graduate Student Symposium
1989-90
Library Coordinator
1989-90
Registration Chairman, 1976 CCTE Local Arrangements
1976
Undergraduate Committee
1975-77 (On leave 77-78), 2005-7
Research Committee
1974-75,76-77
Chairman and Co-Chairman, 1976 CCTE Local Arrangements Committee
1974-75
Lady Bel Geddes Contest Judge
1974
Publicity Chairman, 1974 SCMLA Committee Local Arrangements Committee
1974
Graduate Committee 1973-75, 78-80 (On leave 80-81), 81-84, 87-88 (On leave 88-89),
89-93 (On leave 1994-95, Spring 1996); 1997-99, 2000-2001
Coordinator, Teaching Assistants
1998-2001
Chair, Subcommittee on Teaching Assistants
1992, 1993
Member, Subcommittee on Teaching Assistants
1991
Member, Subcommittee on Curriculum
1990-91
Chairman, Subcommittee on Qualifying Exams
l984
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