Publications/Papers

Publications and Papers

Publications

Articles

“Bridging the Gap: Using Young Adult Literature with the Classics in the Secondary Classroom.” Virginia English Bulletin. 56:2 (Fall, 2006). Pp. 19-29.

Chapters

“Author as Nation-Crafter: Teaching The Lord of the Rings in an Epic Course.”  Approaches to Teaching Tolkien, Leslie A. Donovan, Ed., MLA. Forthcoming.

Signed Encyclopedia Articles

  “Astrophil and Stella #18.” The Facts on File Companion to  British Poetry Before 1600. Michelle M. Sauer, Ed. Routledge: 2008. Pg 43

“Astrophil and Stella # 33. The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600. Michelle M. Sauer, Ed. Routledge: 2008. Pg 48

“Astrophil and Stella # 61.” The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600. Michelle M. Sauer, Ed. Routledge: 2008. Pg 56

“Astrophil and Stella #64.” The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600. Michelle M. Sauer, Ed. Routledge: 2008. Pp 57-58

“The Nightingale.” The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600. Michelle M. Sauer, Ed. Routledge: 2008. Pp 288-289

“Spenser’s Amoretti IV.” The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry Before 1600. Michelle M. Sauer, Ed. Routledge: 2008. Pp 13-14

” Iconography of the Virgin at Paris.” The Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage. Rita Tekippe, subject editor. Brill, October 2009. Pg. 473

“Chronicon Elegiacum”. Co-Authored with Edward Donald Kennedy. Article in The Encyclopedia of Medieval Chronicle. E.D. Kennedy, subject editor. Brill, 2010. Pp. 331-332

“Compilatio de gestis Britonum et Anglorum”. Article in The Encyclopedia of Medieval Chronicle. E.D. Kennedy, subject editor. Brill, 2010. Pp. 484-485.

“Charles Lamb.” Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism. Andrew Maunder, Ed. Facts on File, 2010. Pp.227-229.

“Essays of Elia.” Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism. Andrew Maunder, Ed. Facts on File, 2010. Pp. 124-125.

“Leigh Hunt.” Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism. Andrew Maunder, Ed. Facts on File, 2010. Pg. 189.

“Mary Lamb.” Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism. Andrew Maunder, Ed. Facts on File, 2010. Pg. 229

“Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism. Andrew Maunder, Ed. Facts on File, 2010. Pp.209-210.

“William Wordsworth.” Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism. Andrew Maunder, Ed. Facts on File, 2010. Pp. 494-498.

“Memory in Literature.” General Themes in Literature. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Ed. Routledge, September 2010.

“Ambition in Julius Caesar.” General Themes in Literature. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Ed.Routledge,  September 2010.

“Guilt in Julius Caesar.” General Themes in Literature. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Ed. Routledge,  2010.

“Biblical Reception in Spenser”. Encyclopedia of Biblical Reception. Brian Britt, subject editor. De Gruyter (Forthcoming)

Reviews

“Review: At Large and At Small, by Anne Fadiman.” Ink Quarterly. 2:3 (Summer 2007). Pp. 7-9.

Available on-line: http://members.gcronline.com/writersstudio/Summer%202008.pdf

“Review: Magic in the Middle Ages, by Richard Kieckhefer.” Published in Hortulus: The Online Graduate Medieval Studies Journal. 4:1 (2008). Karina Ashe, Ed. Available online: http://www.hortulus.net/~hortulus/index.php/The_Book_Review

“Review: Of Giants: Sex, Monsters & The Middle Ages, by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.” Published  in Hortulus: The Online Graduate Medieval Studies Journal. Grace Windsor, Ed. Available online: http://www.hortulus.net/~hortulus/index.php/Of_Giants:_Sex%2C_Monsters%2C_and_the_Middle_Ages_by_Jeffrey_Jerome_Cohen

“Review: Malory: The Life and Times of Arthur’s Biographer (Christina Hardyment)”. Hortulus: The Online Graduate Journal in Medieval Studies, Grace Windsor, Ed. (2011) Available Online.

Non-academic writing (fiction & nonfiction)

“City Schools Sink While Critics Fight.” Richmond Times-Dispatch. Sunday Edition. Ann L. Merriman, Ed. Richmond, Virginia, June 12, 2002. E:1.

“Response” to Cynthia Demetriou’s article, “Arguments against Applying a Customer-Service Paradigm,” The Mentor.   September, 2008. Available on-line: http://www.psu.edu/dus/mentor/

“The World According to Anna.” International Library of Poetry, 2006. Pg. 13.

“Mommy-Writer: Finding the Time to Write.” The Writer’s Studio Journal. 1:2 Spring 2006. Pp. 5 – 9.

“Waste Knot, Want Naught.” The Blotter. July, 2006. Pg. 13.

“Living Whiff a Writer.” The Writer’s Studio Journal. 1:3 Summer 2006.

“Big Top Cycle.” Sweetbay Anthology. Prize Books, 2006. Pp. 50-53.

“Finding the Rhythm.” Writer’s Studio Journal, Winter 2007. Pp. 8-11.

“Writer’s Log.” Writer’s Studio Journal, Spring 2007. Pp. 10-11.

“Ovarian Whosit-Whatsits and Primetime TV.” The Blotter. Garrison Somers, Editor-in-Chief. November, 2007. Pp. 6-7.

“Identity Crisis.” Ink Quarterly. 3:1 (Winter 2007-2008). Pg. 11.

“The Bigger Picture.” Ink Quarterly. 3:3(Summer 2008). Pp. 15-17.

“The Witness.” 2010 Poetry Journal, Donna Brauda, Ed. CreateSpace, 2009.

“Upon Viewing Gentile da Fabriano’s Adoration of the Magi.” 2010 Poetry Journal, Donna Brauda, Ed. CreateSpace, 2009.

I have also written numerous articles for the local papers on theatrical events in the area as well as feature stories; bibliographic record available upon request.

Conference Papers/ presentations

“Bridging the Gap: Using Young Adult Literature in the Secondary English Classroom.” Presentation delivered at the Virginia Association for Teachers of English Annual Conference: Richmond, Virginia, October 2006.

“The Confused Knight: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale as Literary Amalgam.” Delivered at Meeting in the Middle: An Interdisciplinary Research Conference in Medieval Studies. Longwood University, Farmville, VA. April 6-8, 2007.

“He’s Lost That Lovin’ Feeling: Thomas Chestre’s “Launfal” as Indictment of the Courtly Ideal.” Delivered at Meeting in the Middle: An Interdisciplinary Research Conference in Medieval Studies. Longwood University, Farmville, VA. March 21-23, 2008.

“Eve/Mary Revisited: Women’s Agency in Early Medieval Texts.” Delivered at the UVA-Wise XXII Annual Medieval Conference, Wise, Virginia September 18-20, 2008.

“Wii Wanna Get Out Of Here: Escaping and Subverting Reality Through New Medievalism in the Media.” Delivered at the Regional Medievalisms Conference, Wesleyan-Georgia, October 9-11, 2008.

“The Sacred and Profane: Language as Equalizer in the Writing of Mecthild of Magdeburg.” Delivered at the Vagantes Medieval Academy Graduate Student Conference at Florida State University, Tallahassee, March 5-7, 2009.

“I’m Not Dead Yet”: Patterns of Victim Agency in Medieval British Texts.” Delivered at  Meeting in the Middle, An Interdisciplinary Conference in Medieval Studies, March 27-28, 2009, Longwood University.

“King of the Who? The Collective Unconscious and the Medieval Arthurian Literary Tradition.” Delivered in the Cognitive Approaches to Medieval Literature panel at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 2009.

“The Linguistic Transformation of the Monster of Mt.-St.-Michel (What’s in a Name?): Some Implications for Defining the Unknowable.” Delivered in the MEARCSTAPA panel at the Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Conference, Vanderbilt University, October 15-17, 2009.

“The Bow and the Canon: The Place of Robin Hood in the Literary Tradition”. Participant in Roundtable discussion organized by Dr. James McNellis for the International Medieval Congress at the University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 2010.

“Source and Substance: Some Remarks on the Chronicon Elegiacum.” Delivered in the Medieval Chronicles panel organized by Dr. Lisa Ruch for the International Medieval Congress at the University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 2010.

“I’m Not Dead Yet: Patterns of Victim Agency in Medieval British Texts.” Delivered in revised form in the MEARCSTAPA sponsored panel “Dead and Loving it in the Middle Ages” at the Southeastern Medieval Association Annual Conference, Roanoke, VA, November 18-20 2010.

“The ‘Fairier’ Sex?: The Female Monstrous in Spenser’s Faerie Queene.” Accepted for presentation in the “Monstrous Females” panel sponsored by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship at the International Medieval Congress at the University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, May 2011. [this paper was not given due to cancer diagnosis in April; I am re-submitting at a later date for another conference].

Conference Activity Excluding Papers/Presentations

Session Organizer, “The Monstrous, the Marvelous and the Miraculous” for MEARCSTAPA at the International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI May 13-16, 2010

Session Organizer, “Traveling in and out of the King Arthur Legend” for the International Arthurian Society at the International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 2011

Session Presider, “Traveling in and out of the King Arthur Legend” for the International Arthurian Society at the International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 2011.

Session Organizer, “You’re so Juvenile: Baby Monsters in Medieval Culture” for MEARCSTAPA at the International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 2012.

Session Organizer, “Truth or Dare: Secrets and Revelations in the Arthurian Tradition” for the International Arthurian Society at the International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 2012.

 Invited lectures

“Manuscript Culture and Literature in Britain, Post-Conquest Through the Fourteenth Century”.  Guest lecture on how manuscripts were created and on the cultural influence of the Norman invasion on the literature of Britain, focusing on the legends of Arthur and Robin Hood. Presented to the School of H&ARTS (History and the Arts) Junior High Class, December 22, 2009.

“Life in Medieval England”. Guest lecture on 14^th century English clothing and culture, with emphasis on food and music. Presented to the Early Gifted and Talented program participants at South Boston Elementary School, December 2010.

Work  in Progress

King of the Who? The Collective Unconscious and the Crafting of National Identity in Medieval Arthurian Texts. Graduate Thesis under development as a monograph with McFarland Publishing.

Book project: I have begun preliminary notes and research for a book-length manuscript on teaching women in literary texts to high school and lower-division undergraduate students. As a teacher and a student myself, it has been evident that there are not enough accessible resources available to students in terms of research concerning the role of female characters in literature, particularly earlier traditions; the nineteenth- and twentieth- centuries being far better represented in women’s studies and literature courses. This single – volume work will serve three purposes: 1. To present introductory descriptions and analysis of representative female characters from the Classical through the seventeenth – century in accessible format for younger students and undergraduates; 2. To present socio-historical context for these characters; and 3. To present an extended bibliography and resources list for the study of women in literature from each of the represented time periods. When it is completed, the book will comprise six chapters: I. Women in the Classical World; 2. Women in Early Medieval Texts; 3. Women in Medieval French Literature; 4. Women in Medieval British Literature; 5. Women in the Renaissance World; 6. Women in the Age of Reason, and an appendix incorporating extensive bibliography for each chapter.

Book project: I am researching the function of feasts in literature for a second possible monograph. My argument is that feasts serve different functions dependent upon where they are held (indoors/outdoors), when they are held in the narrative (beginning, when they serve as catalyst for the tale; middle, when they serve to pause the action and regroup old or introduce new figures of importance to the overall story or end, when they serve as the scene for the denouement), and who is holding them. In particular, I am interested in the differences between feasts held by men, which always are a display of wealth and power and always are of a celebratory nature, and those held by women, which are always a display of wealth and power and nearly always intended to seduce. This is a survey work spanning Classical Epic through early 20th century modern writers such as Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald, with special focus on the Classical epics, Middle English romances, Renaissance and nineteenth century texts, and early modern fiction.

“The Linguistic Transformation of the Monster of Mt.-St.-Michel (What’s in a Name?): Some Implications for Defining the Unknowable.” Article undergoing Revision.

“Transforming the Nation: The Role of Alchemy in Medieval Arthurian Texts”. Article undergoing revision based on peer reviewer remarks for Arthuriana.

“Species or Specious? Classification and Taxonomy in Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowles”. Accepted essay proposal included in Book Proposal In Hir Corages: Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts. Carolynn Van Dyke, Ed. Currently approved and recommended for contract by Bonnie Wheeler, editor-in-chief, for the New Middle Ages series (Palgrave).

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