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Curriculum VitaeKathy LavezzoBusiness Address:Department of EnglishUniversity of Iowa308 EPB · Iowa City, IA 52242Phone:319-335-0294Email:kathy-lavezzo@uiowa.eduEducational and Professional HistoryHigher EducationUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (1992-1999), English, Ph.D., 1999 University of California, Berkeley (1992), Intensive Latin Program, 1992University of Virginia (1988-91), English, M.A., 1988University of California, Los Angeles (1983-88), English and Economics, B.A., 1988 Professional and Academic PositionsAssociate Professor (2006-2014), English, University of IowaScholar in Residence (2007), Obermann Center for Advanced StudiesAssistant Professor (1999-2006), English, University of IowaTeaching Assistant (1992-1998), Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa BarbaraMembershipsJewish Historical Society of EnglandMarlowe SocietyMedieval AcademyModern Language AssociationNew Chaucer SocietyShakespeare Association of AmericaSociety for Medieval Feminist ScholarshipTeaching at the University of IowaTeaching AssignmentsSemesterand YearCOURSES TAUGHTNumber and TitleStudentsEnrolledAdviseesUG GradFall 19998:71/Selected Authors: Chaucer2512 28: 101/Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: Premodern Geographies25Spring 20008:62/Selected Works of the Eighteenth Century: Gothic and Exotic3128:160/Selected Themes in Literary Works: Romancing the Middle Ages13Fall 20008:71/Selected Authors: Chaucer2330 28: 101/Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: Cultures of Death in Medieval England30Spring 20018:60/ Selected Works of the Middle Ages: The Pearl-Poet298:402: Cultures of Death in Medieval England7Fall 20018:101/Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: Cultures of Death in Medieval England3030 308:098:002/Honors Proseminar: Gothic13Spring 20028:71/Selected Authors: Chaucer308:160/Selected Themes in Literary Works: Mapping Sex, Death and the Body (Politic) in the Pearl-Poet14Spring 20048:71/Selected Authors: the Pearl-Poet328:402/Medieval Cultural Geography9Summer 20048:84/ Topics in Culture and Identity: Sex, Gender, and Contemporary Gothic Culture24Fall 20048:60 Selected Works of the Middle Ages: Arthurian Literatures328:101: Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: Mapping Medieval Women32Spring 20058:96 Honors Proseminar: The Single Woman328:146 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales32Fall 20058:146 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales288:216 Medieval Authors: The Canterbury Tales15Spring 20068:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: Mapping Medieval Women308:60 Arthurian Literatures30Fall 20068:60 Arthurian Literatures328:71 Selected Authors: The Pearl-poet30Spring 20078:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: Mapping Medieval Women and Men298:402 Seminar Medieval Literature: Medieval Geographies of Gender and Sexuality11Spring 20088:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: Mapping Medieval Women and Men298:146 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales28Fall 20088:146 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales268:60 Arthurian Literatures28Spring 20098:402 Seminar Medieval LiteratureMapping Jews and Saracens in Medieval English Literature8:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages:Geographies of Race and Ethnicity1026Fall 20098:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages:Geographies of Race and Ethnicity8:146 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales2524 1Spring 20108:60 Selected Works of the Middle Ages: Arthurian Romance8:218 Readings in Medieval Literature and Culture3315 2Fall 20108:146 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales8:76 Selected Early Authors: The Pearl-poet2124 3Spring 20118:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages27 3Fall 20118:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages22 2Spring 20128:146 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales228:216 Medieval Authors: Chaucer88:595 PhD Thesis2Fall 20128:146 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales288:402 Seminar Medieval Literature and Culture128:595 PhD Thesis1Fall 2013008:206:001 Colloquium: Teaching Literature24008:029:002 First-Year Seminar: Medieval Maps and Modern Identities12008:076:001 Selected Early Authors: The Pearl-Poet24008:595:081 PhD Thesis12. Students SupervisedNameTopicRoleOutcomePh.D. Dissertations:Michael SarabiaThe Extinction of Fiction: MemberExpected 2015Metalepsis and the Acknowledgement of Fictive Persons in Medieval LiteratureChris VinsonhalerThe Prophetic BeowulfMemberApril 2013Tracy StuhrRe-Sounding Natures: Member May 2013Voicing the Non-Human in Medieval English PoetryTom BlakeMonstrous QueenChairExpected 2014Consorts in Late Medieval LiteratureStephanie Norris Narrating BodilyChairMay 2012and Psychic Changein RomanceJoseph RodriguezRise and Fall: TropesMemberMay 2012Of Verticality in Middle English LiteratureTravis JohnsonMasculinity and Member May 2011Emotional CommunitiesErin MannSexuality, Literature Co-Chair May 2011and the Bible Katherine GubbelsQueer DigressionsMemberMay 2010In Medieval and Early Modern RomanceRichard GarrettMedieval MemberMay 2011 Vernacular FableChris BurgessEloquence inMemberExpected, 2009Medieval English PoetryJohn PendellLanguage ContactMemberExpected, 2009In Old and MiddleEnglish Literature*Vicki Larson Publication History of MemberFall 2008Julian of Norwich's Book of Showings, 1373-1843."Jeff DotyPopularity in EarlyMemberNovember 2008Modern EnglandMark BruceFigure of ScotlandMemberFall, 2006in Medieval EnglishNational Fantasy*Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam:Vincent RotkiewiczArticleMichael Sarabia Historical ListSonja MayrhoferArticleTom BlakeHistorical ListKristi DiclementeOutside readerStephanie Norris ArticleChris VinsonhalerHistorical ListTravis JohnsonHistorical ListJoseph RodriguezSpecial Interest AreaErin MannSpecial Interest AreaTracy StuhrArticleAnn Pleiss MorrisFifth ExaminerShawn Patrick DoyleSpecial Interest AreaLindsey Row-HeyveldFifth ExaminerKatherine GubbelsFifth ExaminerChris BurgessSpecial Interest AreaJeff DotySpecial Interest AreaMark BruceSpecial Interest AreaJohn PendellArticleRichard GarrettArticleGraduate Independent StudyTracy StuhrGeography and Instructorn/aMedieval RhetoricUndergraduate Independent StudyNicole ThompsonArthurian LiteratureInstructorn/aAbigail Ashford-GroomsWomen’s StudiesInstructorn/aHonors ThesesAlissa SmithSecond Reader 2009Abby Ashford-GroomsSentiment, Gender, Co-Supervisor 2006and Jewish Identity in Fannie Hurst’s fiction*Other Contributions to Instructional ProgramsFeatured guest, Undergraduate English Society meeting (April 2011)Participant, Mock Interviews for English MLA job seekers (December 2000-10)Organized Mock Job Talk for job candidate (January 2000)Scholarship Publications or Creative WorksRefereedBooksJews in Britain-Medieval to Modern, (Philological Quarterly 92.1[2013]). 130 pp. [journal issue containing 6 essays with introduction]. In press.Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson: Laureations, co-edited with Roze Hentschell (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012). 310 pp. [collection of 13 essays with introduction]New Work on the Middle Ages, co-edited with Susie Phillips (Philological Quarterly 87.1-2 [2008]). 192 pp. [journal double issue containing 7 essays with introduction]Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006). 183 pp. Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004). 356 pp. [collection of 10 essays, with introduction] Articles or Book Chapters“Introduction: Jews in Britain-Medieval to Modern,” Philological Quarterly 92.1 (2013): 1-18.“Building Anti-Semitism in Bede,” Imagining the Jew: Jewishness in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture, Ed. Samantha Zacher, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) 10,000 words [typescript submitted to editor]“Shifting geographies of antisemitism: mapping Jew and Christian in Thomas of Monmouth’s Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich,” Mapping Medieval Geographies: Cartography and Geographical Thought in the Latin West and Beyond: 300-1600, Ed. Keith Lilley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). 250-270. “Nation,” A Handbook of Middle English Studies, Ed. Marion Turner. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2013. 363-78. “Critical Thriving: Chaucer, the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, and the MLA,” Still Thriving: On the Importance of Aranye Fradenburg, (Brooklyn: Punctum Books, 2013), 25-31.“Aaron of Lincoln and St. Alban’s Shrine,” Borders of Jewishness: Microhistories of Encounter, Frankel Institute Annual (2013): 26-28.“The Minster and the Privy,” PMLA 126 (March 2011) 363-82.“Crossing Borders in the Alliterative Morte Arthure,” Englishness and the Sea, Ed. Sebastian Sobecki (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2011) 113-32.“Complex Identities: Selves and Others,” The Oxford Handbook of Medieval English Literature, Ed. Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker (Oxford University Press, 2010). 434-457.“Leslie Fiedler’s Medieval America,” with Harilaos Stecopoulos, American Literary History 22.4 (2010): 867-87.“Introduction,” with Susan E. Phillips, New Work in Medieval Studies. Philological Quarterly 87.1-2 (2008): 1-8.“England,” Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches, Ed. Susanna Fein and David Raybin (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2009). 47-66. “Gregory’s Boys: The Homoerotic Production of English Whiteness,” Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England, Ed. Carol Braun Pasternack and Lisa Weston (Tempe, AZ: MRTS, 2005). 63-90.“Introduction,” Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003). vii-xxxiv. "Beyond Rome: Mapping Gender and Justice in the Man of Law's Tale," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 24 (2002): 149-80.“Chaucer and Everyday Death: The Clerk's Tale, Burial, and the Subject of Poverty,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23 (2001): 55-87. "Another Country: ?lfric and the Production of English Identity," New Medieval Literatures 3 (2000): 67-93."Sobs and Sighs Between Women: The Homoerotics of Compassion in The Book of Margery Kempe," Premodern Sexualities, Ed. Louise O. Fradenburg and Carla Freccero (New York: Routledge, 1996). 175-98.Reprint of “Sobs and Sighs Between Women: The Homoerotics of Compassion in The Book of Margery Kempe,” Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical Companion, 6 vols, (Detroit: Thompson Gale, 2005). Book ReviewsReview of Robert Barrett, Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1656. (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009) in Modern Philology 110.3 (February 2013): 160-64.Review of Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure & Punishment in Medieval Culture (Reaktion Books, in conjunction with The University of Chicago Press, 2006), in Modern Philology 106.2 (November 2008): 204-7Review of Ardis Butterfield, ed., Chaucer and the City (Chaucer Studies, 37.) (Woodbridge, Eng. and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell and Brewer, 2006), in Speculum 82.3 (2007): 686-88.Review of Lianna Farber, An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing: Value, Consent, and Community (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006), in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (2007): 489-92.Review of Robert Allen Rouse, The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), in Speculum (July 2006): 912-13.Review of Geraldine Heng, Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (Columbia University Press, 2003), in Medieval Feminist Forum 40 (Winter, 2005): 104-07.Review of Carolyn Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman, Eds, Last Things: Death and the Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 24 (2002): 385-89.Review of Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Ed, The Postcolonial Middle Ages (Palgrave, 2000), in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 3.1 (2002): < of Lister M. Matheson, Ed. The Prose Brut: The Development of a Middle English Chronicle (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998), in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 76 (2001): 1075-76.Review of Florence Percival, Chaucer’s Legendary Good Women (Cambridge, 1998), in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22 (2001): 523-27.Published Reviews of ScholarshipAngels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534: Medium ?vum 77 (March 2008): 119-20 Yearbook of English Studies, 38, (July 2008): 258-259; Journal of English and Germanic Philology (July 2008): 403-5; College Literature. 35.3 (Summer 2008): 180-90; Journal of British Studies 46 (Oct. 2007): 909-10; Speculum 82.3 (2007): 717-718; Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (2007): 508-11; Journal of Historical Geography 33.3 (2007): 713-15; Medieval Feminist Forum. 43.1 (2007): 126-28; Imago Mundi: 59.2 (2007): 234-46; Choice (March 2007): ; H-Net: (September, 2006):; The Medieval Review (2006). ; Historical Geography 36. (2008); Sixteenth Century Journal 40 (2009); Modern Philology 107 no.2 (2009): 167–72.Imagining a Medieval English Nation: Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 27 (2005): 331-34; Clio (Spring, 2006): 263-70, 305.External and Internal GrantsExternalYear Amount Agency Research2013$29,000Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic2nd Book on antisemitic literatureStudies2002-3$40,000University of Wisconsin, Madison, Institute Book: English cartography, for Research in the Humanities Cardinal Wolsey, and(Solmsen Postdoctoral Fellowship)John Skelton’s poetry2002-3$37,500University of Notre Dame Medieval InstituteBook: English cartography,A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral FellowshipCardinal Wolsey, and(Declined)John Skelton’s poetry$1,800Huntington LibraryDissertation: signature Mayers Fellowshipmanuscript of Higden’sPolychroniconInternalYear Amount Agency Research2011$6,000Obermann Center2nd Book Project and article2010$6,000Presidential Faculty Fellowshipfestschrift and article2007Career Development Award2nd Book: Project Description2006-7$7,500Arts and Humanities Initiative2nd Book: Chaucer 2000$4,700University of Iowa Book: Chaucer’s Man of Law’s Old Gold FellowshipTale1999$2,500University of IowaBook: Archival Research at the CIFRE AwardBritish Library on medieval maps1999$4,000University of California, Santa BarbaraDissertation: the Alliterative Dissertation FellowshipMorte Arthure1999$1,500University of California, Santa BarbaraDissertation: Introduction and Friends of EnglishHigden’s PolychroniconDissertation Fellowship1997-8$12,000University of California, Santa BarbaraDissertation: ?lfric’s prose andGraduate Humanities Research Associateship the Man of Law’s Tale1997$5,000University of California, Santa BarbaraDissertation: ?lfric’s prose andInterdisciplinary Humanities Center the Man of Law’s TalePredoctoral Fellowship (Declined)Other research awards: University of California Santa Barbara Graduate Student Humanities/Social Sciences Research Grants (1996, 1998) toward work on the dissertation; University of California Santa Barbara Fee Fellowship (1996-7); University of California, Santa Barbara, Medieval Studies Travel Grant (1996) for dissertation-related research in U.K. archives; University of California, Santa Barbara, Graduate Student Travel Grants (1994; 1995) supporting the presentation of research at academic conferences; University of California Intercampus Research Award (1994) to support studies at the University of California, Berkeley.Lectures and Conference PresentationsInvitedInternational “Mapping Race in Medieval England.” Mapping Medieval Geographies Conference: Cartography and Geographical thought in the Latin West and Beyond, 300-1600. UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Ahmanson Conference. Los Angeles, CA. (28-30 May 2009) Keynote Address.“Crossing Borders in the Alliterative Morte Arthure,” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England (9 July 2008) [invited lecture] “England,” Special Session on “Chaucer's Places: Familiar and Foreign” commemorating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Chaucer Review, 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (5 May 2006) [invited lecture]National “Shifting Geographies of Antisemitism: Thomas of Monmouth's Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich,” Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2 February 2013).“(H)ospitium et Pulpitum: Shifting Geographies of Antisemitism in Thomas of Monmouth’s Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich” Medieval Studies Graduate Interest Group Speakers Series, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle (26 October 2012) [invited speaker]“Shifting Geographies of Antisemitism,” Medieval Writer’s Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison (29 September 2012) [invited talk]“Chaucerian Geographies,” Twentieth Anniversary, Eastern Illinois University Literary Conference. Charleston, IL. (24 Oct. 2008) [keynote address]“Mapping Jews and Christians in Thomas of Monmouth’s vita of William of Norwich.”Medieval Writers’ Workshop, UC Riverside, Riverside, California, (3 Oct. 2009) [invited talk]“The Minster and the Privy,” Medieval Studies Lecture Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, (26 May 2009) [invited lecture]“Leslie Fiedler’s Medieval America,” Symposium on American Medievalism, University of Illinois. Urbana-Champagne, Illinois, (5 Oct. 2008) [invited talk]“Uterine Geographies,” Mapping Medieval and Early Modern Bodies Conference, University of Colorado at Boulder, (22 Feb. 2007) [invited lecture]“Christians, Jews, and the Making of English Space,” Medieval Writer’s Workshop, UC Davis, Davis, CA, (15 Sept. 2007) [invited talk]“We are from the very ends of the earth”: Medieval Geography and the Processions of Thomas Wolsey,” Michigan Medieval Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (29 Oct. 2005) [invited talk]“Chaucer’s Object Lessons,” Medievalists’ Writing Workshop, Northwestern University, Chicago (17 Sept. 2005) [invited talk]“Mapping Gender and Justice in the Man of Law’s Tale,” Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison (27 Jan. 2003) [invited talk]“Gerald de Barri and the Geography of Ireland’s Conquest,” Medievalists’ Writing Workshop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (20 Sept. 2003) [invited talk]“Mapping Gender and Justice in the Man of Law’s Tale,” Young Medievalist Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (28 Sept. 2002) [invited talk]“Chaucer and Everyday Death: The Clerk's Tale, Burial, and the Subject of Poverty,” Department of English, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1 Dec. 2000) [invited talk]RefereedInternational“Critical Thriving,” 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, (9 May 2013) “The Cultural Geography of Wonder in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament,” 18th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Portland, OR (24 July 2012)“The Geography of English Antisemitism,” York 1190: Jews and Others in the Wake of the Massacre, Center for Medieval Studies, University of York, UK (22-24 March 2010)“Queer Typology and St. Erkenwald,” 16th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Swansea, Wales (20 July 2008)“The Prioress and the Privy,” 15th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, New York City (July 2006) “Bringing Rome to England: Wolsey and English Isolation at the Dawn of the Reformation,” 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (8 May 2004)"Woman and Christian National Fantasy in the Man of Law's English Jeremiad," 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, (7 May 1998) “Terminating Arthur: The Morte Arthure and the Problem with the Matter of Britain,” 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (8 May 1998)"Gregory's Boys: ?lfric and the Production of English Whiteness," 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (10 May 1996)"'Scourges of Adversitee': The Clerk's Tale, Burial and the Subject of Poverty," 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (5 May 1994)NationalBuilding Antisemitism in Bede,” Modern Language Association Conference, Boston (4 Jan. 2013) “Breached Citadels: Geography and Identity in The Jew of Malta,” Shakespeare Association of America, Seattle, WA (April 2011)“Architecture and Identity in the Jew of Malta,” Modern Language Association Conference, Los Angeles, (8 Jan. 2011) “The Minster and the Privy,” Modern Language Association Conference (Chicago, 27 Dec. 2007)“We are from the very Ends of the Earth”: Medieval Geography and the Processions of Thomas Wolsey,” Medieval Academy of America, Miami Beach, Florida (2 April 2005)“Beyond Rome: Mapping Gender and Justice in the Man of Law’s Tale,” Division on Chaucer, Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans (28 Dec. 2001)"Angels on the Edge of the World: Locating England in the Polychronicon," Medieval Academy of America, University of Texas, Austin (15 April 2000)"Decadent Nation, Decadent Author: The Morte Arthure-Poet and the Problem with the Brut matière," Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco (28 Dec. 1998)"?lfric and the Production of Englishness," Division on Old English Language and Literature, Modern Language Association Convention, Washington D.C. (27 Dec. 1996)"Sobs and Sighs Between Women: The Homoerotics of Compassion in The Book of Margery Kempe," Bodies and Pleasures in Pre- and Early Modernity Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz (3 Nov. 1995)"Premodern Juridical Fantasy and the Embodiment of Britain in St. Erkenwald," Rethinking Britain Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara (21 Oct. 1994)"Female Homosocial Desire and The Book of Margery Kempe," On the Margins conference, State University of New York, Binghamton (15 Oct. 1993)"Female Homosocial Desire and The Book of Margery Kempe," Unauthorized Activities Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara (16 April 1993)ServiceDepartment2013Director, General Education Literature Program2012Organized Fall 2012 Guest Lecture by Stacy Klein (Associate Professor of English, Rutgers)2011-presentGeneral Education in Literature Faculty Advising Committee1999-2012McGalliard Award Committee Chair2007-presentEditorial Board, Philological Quarterly2009-2011Graduate Admissions Committee2009-2011Graduate Steering Committee2008-2011Qualifications Chair2008-2009Early Modern Search Committee2008-2009Organized Spring 2009 Guest Lecture by Anthony Bale (Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies, Birkbeck, University of London)2008-2009Organized Spring 2009 Guest Lecture by Cathy Sanok (Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan)2007-008Early Modern Search Committee Consultant2005-2008Graduate Admissions Committeespring 2007Executive Committee2004-2007Graduate Steering Committee2004-2007Chair, Graduate Placement Committeefall 2006Outcomes Assessment Taskforce2005Organized Fall 2005 Guest Lecture by Geraldine Heng (Associate Professor of English, UT Austin)2004-2005Hiring Committee Medieval/Early Modern Search2001-2002Graduate Admissions Committee2001-2002Graduate Finance Committee2001Organized Guest Lecture by L.O. AranyeFradenburg (Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara)2001Graduate Qualifications Committee1999-2001Graduate Placement Committee1999-2002General Education in Literature Faculty Advising Committee1999-2000Hiring Committee Eighteenth-Century SearchUniversity2012 O8G:001 (Interpretation of Literature) Review Committee, CLAS2009-12Faculty Assembly2009-12University Lectures Committee2011 Organized PQ Symposium on the Idea of the Jew in Medieval Britain2011Nominating Committee, Faculty Assembly2011Statement Committee, Faculty Assembly2010-11Secretary, Faculty Assembly2011Brought to Campus Ida Beam Visiting Scholar Jeffrey J. Cohen2007-10Medieval Studies Program Coordinating CommitteeProfessionChair, panel on “Popular and Elite Culture,” conference on New Directions in Jewish Literary and Cultural Studies, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, 29 March 2013.MLA Executive Committee, Division on Chaucer (2011-14)Referee for book submissions to Broadview Press, University of Toronto Press and St. Martin’s Press Medieval Cultures Series.Referee for article submissions to Journal of Germanic Philology, postmedieval, Mediaevalia Exemplaria, PMLA, Literature Compass, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, Philological Quarterly, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Chaucer Review, and Mosaic.“Dirty Chaucer.” Session organizer and Chair for MLA Division on Chaucer, Modern Language Association Convention, Boston, 3 Jan 2013“Chaucer and the English Renaissance.” Session Organizer and Chair, 18th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Portland, Oregon (27 July 2012)“Chaucer and Belief,” Session organizer and Chair for MLA Division on Chaucer, Modern Language Association Convention, Seattle, WA (8 Jan 2012)External reviewer for promotion to Associate Professor, English Department, SUNY Buffalo (2010)Nominating Committee, New Chaucer Society (2009)External reviewer for promotion to Associate Professor, English Department, Pomona College (2009)External examiner for dissertation defense, Rutgers University (Susan Nakley, 2008)Co-organizer, with Geraldine Heng, of a panel on the Prioress’s Tale for the 2008 meeting of the New Chaucer Society in Swansea, Wales.Member, Editorial Board, Babel: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies. Referee for new editorial series proposal submitted to Ohio State University Press (Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture Ed. By Ethan Knapp). External reviewer for promotion to Associate Professor, English Department, West Virginia University (2007)Chair, panel on Medieval Obscenities for the 2007 Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Humanities Symposium. University of Iowa, 3 March 2007.Participant in Committee on Institutional Cooperation focus group on scholarly publishing in the promotion and tenure process for faculty in the humanities. 2003.“Imagining a Medieval English Community.” Organized and chaired special session at the MLA Convention, San Francisco, 28 Dec. 1998."The Medieval Fetish/Fetishizing the Middle Ages." Organized, chaired and introduced special session at the MLA Convention, Chicago, 27 Dec. 1995.Participant in University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium, 1995. Editorial Assistant for Special Issue of GLQ 1.4 (1995). ................
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