Ph. D., English, University of Washington, 1996
M.A., English, University of Washington, 1992
B. A., English, with Honors, Linfield College, 1990

"Dwelling on Women: Reading the Spatial Discourses of Medieval Texts"
Director: Professor Sally Mussetter

• Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 1999-present
• Assistant Professor, Murray State University, 1997-1999
• Adjunct Instructor, North Seattle Community College, 1995-97
• Acting Instructor, University of Washington, 1996-97
• Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, 1992-95

“Reading the Letters of Heloise: A Devotional Curriculum for Medieval Nuns” Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 12 (2007 for 2005): 1-25.

"The Characterized Reader in Hali Meidhad and the Resisting Reader of Feminist Discourse on Medieval Devotional Texts"  The Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:1 (2005): 87-111.

“’Nimað eow bysne be þyssere Iudith’: Deictic Shifting and Didactic Christian Discourse in Ælfric’s Judith” Studia Neophilologica 76 (2004): 1-13.

"'I wold thow wer closyd in an hows of ston': Reimagining Religious Enclosure in the Book of Margery Kempe" Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies  20.2 (2003): 71-94.

"'Was it I that killed the babies?': Children as Disruptive Signifiers in Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home" Extrapolation 42:1 (2001): 27-36.

"Designing Religious Women: Privacy and Exposure in The Life of Christina of Markyate and Ancrene Wisse" Mediaevalia 22.2 (1999): 201-231.

"Enclosed and Invisible?: Chrétien’s Spatial Discourse and the Problem of Laudine" Romance Notes 37:2 (1997): 119-127.

Book Review Essay, The Discourse of Enclosure: Representing Women in Old English Literature, Shari Horner (Albany: SUNY, 2001) Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature 10:1 (2001): 36-48.

Book Review Essay, Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999) Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature 8:2 (1999): 160-169.

Book Review Essay, Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays (New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998) Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature 7:2 (1998): 169-175.
 

Works in Progress

"A False Tale is Still a Tale: A Linguistic Analysis of the Manciple's Gendered Acts of Retraction"

Book Projects
Contexts for Medieval English Literature: An Anthology for Developing Medieval Cultural Literacy

Imagining the Female Audience: How Medieval Devotional Texts Account for the Interpretive Practices of their Female Audiences

Sabbatical (Project Title: “Affective Rhetoric in the Katherine Group: Participatory Deictics in Medieval Devotional Literature”), Fall 2006

Faculty Development Board Grant, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (Project Title: “Medieval Women as Readers: Analyzing the Female Audience of Medieval Devotional Texts”), 2003

Faculty Development Board Grant, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (Project Title: “Medieval Women as Readers: Analyzing the Female Audience of Medieval Devotional Texts”), 2002

Faculty Development Board Grant, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (Project Title: “Contexts for Medieval English Literature: Problems and Issues in Medieval Cultural Literacy”), 2000

Committee on Institutional Studies and Research, Murray State University (Project Title: “Backgrounds in Medieval English Literature: A Source Book”), 1998  

2000, Summer, NEH Seminar, “Constructing Subjects in Anglo-Saxon England” Director, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Notre Dame (Project Title: Judith as Deictic Center: Ælfric’s Construction of Female Communities)

• Old and Middle English Literature
• Introductory Linguistics and Grammar
• History of the English Language
• Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
• Medieval Continental and World Literature
• Modern Science Fiction and Fantasy

Medieval Literature:

• Arthurian Legend and Romance (2007)
• Graduate Seminar on Women Writers: Medieval Women Writers (2002)
• Early Women Writers (dual level 2004)
  
• Chaucer and His Age (dual level graduate and undergraduate, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005)
• Medieval English Literature (Graduate) (1998)
• Medieval European Literature (Advanced) (1997,1998)
• Medieval Literature (Graduate) (1997)
• Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1996, 1997)
• Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (Advanced) (1997)
• English Literature: The Middle Ages (Advanced) (1997)
• Medieval and Renaissance Survey (1994, 1995)

• Language and Society: Discourse Analysis, Graduate Level (2005)
  
• History of the English Language (2001, 2005)
• Sociolinguistics (2004)
  
• Modern Grammars (2000, 2002, 2003)
• Introduction to Linguistics (2000, 2003, 2007)
• Introduction to Language Study (2002)
• Linguistics and English Grammars (1998)
• Advanced English Grammar (six sections, 1995-1997)

• English Literature: Beginnings to 1800 (2001)
• Classical and Medieval Survey (11 sections, 1999-2005)
• English Literature, 1350-1760 (1999)
• Humanities I: Ancient World to the Enlightenment (five sections, 1997-1999)
• Renaissance Literature (Advanced) (1999)
• British Literary Culture from 1600-1800 (1996)
• British Literature to 1600 (1997)
• Great Books I: Classics to Medieval  (1994)

• Introduction to English Studies (6 sections 2003-2005)

• Advanced Composition: Writing for the Humanities (2003)
• Honors Composition/Theme-Based Inquiry Seminar (Life in a Medieval Village, 2001)
• Honors Composition/Theme-Based Inquiry Seminar (Language and College Writing, 2007)
• College English I: Theme-Based Inquiry Seminar (Language Myths, 2002)
• College English I (2000)
• Intermediate Composition: Science Fiction Utopia (1994)
• Beginning Composition (eight sections, 1992-1998) (Computer Assisted)
• Composition and Research (1998)
• Introductory Composition: Popular Culture and the Media (1996)
• Composition--Educational Opportunity Program (1993, 1994)

• English Internship Course (2000)

• Feminist Theory (2006)

Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006

College of Humanistic Studies Teaching Circle Award, $1,000 (Project: Teaching Contemporary Theory to Undergraduates), Murray State University, 1999

Preparing Future Faculty Fellowship, University of Washington, 1995

"Witnessing Female Monasticism in the Letters of Abelard and Heloise" Medieval Association of the Midwest, Springfield, IL, Sept. 2005

"Reader Roles in Anchoritic Literature: Hali Meiðhad " International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2004

"From 'meiden' to 'wummon' and Back Again: A Survey of Characterized and Implied Readers in Hali Meiðhad" Medieval Association of the Midwest, Indianapolis, IN, Oct. 2003

"Possibilities for Hypersignification in Aelfric's Commentary on Judith" Medieval Association of the Midwest, De Pere, WI, Sept. 2002

"Judith as Deictic Center: Aelfric's Construction of Female Interpretive Communities" International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2002

"The Gendered Body in Hali Meiðhad and Its Thirteenth-Century Anchoritic Audience" International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2001

"'unworthy sone of Eve': Hagiographic Experience as Subjectivity in Chaucer's Second Nun's Tale" Medieval Association of the Midwest, Duluth, Minnesota, Oct. 6-7, 2000

"In the Chamber of Mary: Vision as Self Critique in the Life of Christina of Markyate" Modern Language Association, Chicago, Dec. 1999

"’Here endeth a shorte treatyse of a deuoute ancres called Margerye kempe of Lynne’: Expectations of Religious Claustration in The Book of Margery Kempe" International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 1999

“A Model of Female Patronage in the Middle Ages: From Marie de Champagne to the Wife of Bath” Women and Power: Women’s Studies Conference, Middle Tennessee State University, Feb. 1999

"Gender Roles in Transition: The Impact of Courtly Love on Medieval European Society (1050-1500)" Europe in Transition Seminar, Regensburg, Germany, August, 1998

"The Challenge of Private Space: Subjectivity and Exposure in the Life of Christina of Markyate" South Eastern Medieval Association, Nashville, TN, Sept. 1997

"Self-Reflectivity, Narrative Strategies, and the Soap Opera as Post-Modern Genre: A Dialogue" with Jennifer L. Holberg, Modern Language Association (Popular Culture Association), Chicago, December, 1995

"Designing Religious Women: From the Life of Christina of Markyate to the Ancrene Wisse" International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 1995

"Abelard’s Hagiographic Disillusionment: Revisioning Female Communities in the Letters of Heloise" International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 1994

"The Advantages of an Anchoritic Discourse: Margery Kempe’s Rereading of Aelred of Rievaulx’s De Institutione Inclusarum" Medieval Association of the Pacific, Seattle, WA, March, 1994

"Development and Individuality in Yvain: Laudine and the Space-Time Continuum" South Central Modern Language Association (International Courtly Literature Society) Austin, TX, October, 1993

Women's Studies Brown Bag Presentation: "Empress or Whore: The Search for an Authentic Christian Subject in the Letters of Abelard and Heloise" October, 2005

Presented paper in the English Department Forum series, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, "Talking Across Disciplines: How Literary Pragmatics can inform a Medievalist Feminist Model of Audience" November, 2003

Presented paper in the English Department Forum series, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, "Courtly Love and the History of Medieval Women" March, 2000

Organized and Chaired session "Medieval Voices: Reconsidering the Courtly Lady of Medieval Romance" Eleventh Annual Celebrate Women Conference, Murray State University, 1998

Director, M.A. in English, 2005-spring 2006, spring 2007-2009
College Curriculum Committee, COLS, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2004-2006
Academic Policies Committee, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2005-2006
Chair, Curriculum Committee, Dept. of English, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2003-spring 2006
Assessment Committee, Dept. of English, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2003-2005
Faculty Development Board Reader, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2004-present
Salary Committee, Dept. of English, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2000-1, Fall 2002
Curriculum Committee, Dept. of English, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 1999-2000, Fall 2002, Spring 2007
Research and Publication Committee, Dept. of English, Fall 2001, Fall 2002
Director of Internship Program, Dept. of English, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2000-1
Co-Chair, Personnel Committee, Dept. of English, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2000-1
Honors Faculty, College of Letters and Sciences, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2000-present
Executive Committee, Dept. of English, Murray State University, 1999
Composition Committee, Dept. of English, Murray State University, 1999
Governance Committee, Dept. of English, Murray State University, 1997-8
College of Humanistic Studies Forum Committee, Murray State University, 1998-9
Advisory Council, Regent’s College, Murray State University, 1999
Advisor: Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society, Murray State University Chapter, 1997-9
Advisor: English Student Organization, Murray State University, 1997-9
Regent’s College Faculty, Murray State University, 1997-9

• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Medieval Association of the Midwest
• Midwest MLA
• New Chaucer Society
• International Courtly Literature Association