TEXAS STATE VITA



TEXAS STATE VITA

I. ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

A. Name: Leah Schwebel Title: Dr.

B. Educational Background

Degree Year University Major Thesis/Dissertation

PhD, 2014: University of Connecticut, English, “Re-telling Old Stories: Chaucer and an Italian Poetics of Intertextual Commentary.”

MA, 2008: McGill University, English/Medieval, “Chaucer’s ‘Divine Robbery’: Appropriating the Poetry of Dante and the Classics in the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women, and the Canterbury Tales.”

BA, 2006: McGill University, English/ Jewish Studies

C. University Experience

Position University Dates

Assistant Professor of English, Texas State University, 2014-present.

Instructor, University of Connecticut, 2008-2014.

Teaching / Graduate Assistant, McGill University, 2006-2008.

D. Relevant Professional Experience

Position Entity Dates

Research Assistant for Gershon Hundert, Head of the Department of Jewish Studies, McGill, 2004-2007.

Editor for The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, The Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, 2004-2006.

II. TEACHING

B. Courses Taught:

Texas State University

ENG 2310: Brit Lit-1785 “Exile and Travel” (5 sections):

ENG 3319: The Development of English (5 sections)

ENG 3343: Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature: “Dante” (4 sections)

ENG 3343: Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature: “Boccaccio”

ENG 3350: European Medieval Literature: “Medieval Story Collections”

ENG 4351: Chaucer and his Time (6 sections)

ENG 5353: Graduate seminar, “Trojan Doubleness from Antiquity to the Middle Ages”

ENG 5353: Graduate Seminar, “Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales” (2 Sections)

ENG 5353: Graduate Seminar, “Chaucer and the Italian Trecento Poets”

ENG 5353: Graduate Seminar, “Dante’s Divine Comedy”

ENG 5353: Graduate Seminar, “Chaucer’s ABC: All But the Canterbury Tales”

University of Connecticut

ENGL 3115: A course for upper-level English majors on Restoration and eighteenth-century literature: 1 section.

ENGL 1011: A seminar for Freshmen from all disciplines on writing through literature: 8 sections.

ENGL 1010: A seminar for Freshmen from all disciplines in academic writing: 1 section.

McGill University

For the following courses I was a Teaching Assistant. My responsibilities included marking, holding weekly office hours, and leading 2-4 discussion groups per week.

ENGL 203: Departmental Survey of English Literature 2.

ENGL 315: Shakespeare.

JWST 240: The Holocaust.

C. Graduate Theses/Dissertations, Honors Theses, or Exit Committees:

Supervisor, M.A. Thesis, Aaron Flores, Texas State University (ongoing)

Supervisor, M.A. Thesis, Victoria Kuykendall, Texas State University (ongoing)

Supervisor, M.A. Thesis, Lindsey Jones, Texas State University (ongoing)

Supervisor, M.A. Thesis, Brendan Dewell, Texas State University (ongoing)

Supervisor, M.A. Thesis, Austin Herrera, Texas State University, “Chaucer’s Wit: The Mind and

Avysement in Medieval Literature” (defended, Spring 2019)

Supervisor, M.A. Thesis, Kaitlyn Polly, Texas State University, “Genealogical Metaphors in Chaucer’s Poetr”y (defended, Spring 2018)

Supervisor, M.A. Thesis, Ria Stubbs Trevino, Texas State University “Chaucer’s Handling of the Proserpina Myth in the Canterbury Tales” (defended, Spring 2017)

Supervisor, M.A. Thesis, Tyler Dukes, Texas State University, “Le Roman de Troie’s Influence on Perceforest” (defended, Spring 2016)

Reader, M.A. Thesis, Andrew Barton, Texas State University, “The Knight’s Progress and Virtual Realities: The Medievalist Adventure from Beowulf to Ready Player One” (defended, Spring 2018)

Reader, M.A. Thesis, Holly Swafford, Texas State University, “James Joyce and

Smell” (defended, Spring 2016)

III. SCHOLARLY/CREATIVE

A. Works in Print (including works accepted, forthcoming, in press)

Refereed Chapters in Books:

“Who or What is Chaucer’s Trophee?” in Chaucer and Italian Culture, ed. Helen Fulton

(University of Wales Press, forthcoming 2019).

-This chapter was sent to the editor in 2017, and I signed a contract for it (also in 2017). The publication date keeps being pushed back, but from what I have been told it will be published this year.

Articles

a. Refereed Journal Articles:

“What’s in Criseyde’s Book?” The Chaucer Review 54 (2019): 91-115.

“The Pagan Suicides: Augustine and Inferno 13,” Medium Aevum 87 (2018): 106-32.

“Triumphing over Dante in Petrarch’s Trionfi,” Mediaevalia 39 (2018): 89-113.

Betsy McCormick, Leah Schwebel, and Lynn Shutters, “Introduction,” The Chaucer Review 51 (2017): 3-11.

-Betsy, Lynn, and I co-wrote this introduction.

“Livy and Augustine as Negative Models in the Legend of Lucrece,” The Chaucer Review 51

(2017): 29-45.

“The Legend of Thebes and Literary Patricide in Chaucer, Boccaccio, and Statius,” Studies in the

Age of Chaucer 36 (2014): 139-68.

“Redressing Griselda: Restoration through Translation in the Clerk’s Tale,” Chaucer Review 47

(January 2013): 274-99.

“’Simile Lordura,’ Altra Bolgia: Authorial Conflation in Inferno XXVI,” Dante Studies 130

(2012): 47-65.

b. Non-refereed Articles:

“Dante’s Metam-Orpheus: The Unsung Presence of Orpheus in Dante’s Commedia,” Hirundo:

The McGill Journal of Classical Studies 4 (2005-6): 62-72.

c. Encyclopedia Articles:

“Grisild(e), Grisildis,” Wiley-Blackwell Chaucer Encyclopedia, Gen. ed. Richard Newhauser, date TBA.

B. Works “in progress”

“Chaucer’s Tropes of Engagement” (monograph. Typescript was submitted to the University of Toronto Press on February 13, 2019)

“The Exemplary Griselda.”

-I am writing this article for inclusion in a special issue of The Chaucer Review on “The Women Question.” This special issue is being edited by Wendy Matlock and Betsy McCormick, and will be published within the next two years.

C. Invited Talks, Lectures, and Presentations:

Talks:

“Tropes, Traditions, and Literary Genealogies: My Graduate Research,” Invited Speaker, Mount Holyoke College, April 2013.

Lectures:

Lecture for Professor Barbara Zimbalist, UTEP: Chaucer’s Monk’s Tale, April 2018

Lecture for E460: Chaucer (Professor Lynn Shutters), “Chaucer’s Petrarchan and Boccaccian Sources for the Clerk’s Tale,” November 2016

Lecture for ENGL 210 (Professor Andrew Kraebel), Trinity University: “Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale,” October 2015

Lecture for ENG 2310 (Professor Joseph Falocco), Texas State University: “Chaucer,” February 2015.

Lecture for ENGL 3501 (Professor Fiona Somerset), University of Connecticut: “The Clerk’s Italian Griselda,” October 2012.

Lecture for ENGL 315 (Professor Paul Yachnin), McGill University: “Demythologizing Shakespeare’s Shylock,” November 2007.

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings:

“Tropes of Engagement.” Biennial London Chaucer Conference, London, England, June 2019.

“The Roman Triumph as a Literary Trope.” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Sewanee, Tennessee, April 2019.

“What’s in Criseyde’s Book?” Reading Then, Reading Now, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, April 2019.

“#Notallwomen: The (In)imitable Griselda.” Twenty-First International Congress of the New

Chaucer Society, Toronto, Ontario, July 2018.

“Imperial and Literary Lineage in Lydgate’s Troy Book.” Fifty-Third International Congress on

Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2018.

“Fictionality and the Literary Tradition of Troy,” The Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, Vienna, Austria, March 2017.

“Chaucer Through the Looking Glass: Lydgate’s Chaucerian Poetics in the Fall of Princes.”

Canada Chaucer Seminar, Toronto, ON, April 2016.

“What’s in Criseyde’s Book?” Texas Medieval Association Conference, College Station, TX, September 2016.

“Myn Auctor Lollius.” Twentieth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, London, England, July 2016.

“Livy and Augustine in the Legend of Good Women.” Canada Chaucer Seminar, Toronto, ON, April 2016.

“The Pagan Suicides.” European Religious Cultural Symposium, San Antonio, TX, November 2015.

“Chaucer’s Intertextual Networks” in The Future of Middle English Studies: A Roundtable. Texas Medieval Association Conference, San Marcos, TX, October 2015.

“What’s in Criseyde’s Book?” Northeastern Modern Language Association, Toronto, ON, April 2015.

“The Immortal Fall of Princes.” Fiftieth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2015.

“Cataloguing Literary Immortality in the Monk’s Tale.” Modern Language Association, Vancouver, CA, January 2015.

“Who or What is Chaucer’s ‘Trophee.’” Texas Medieval Association Annual Conference, Denton, TX, October 2014.

“The Triumphal De casibus” (Poster). Nineteenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2014.

“Power in Flux: Chaucer’s Triumphal Monk’s Tale.” Forty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2014.

“Giovanni Boccaccio: Italian and Latin” in Translingual Authors: A Roundtable. Forty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2014.

“The ‘Little Book’ that Could: False Humility in Boccaccio’s Envoys to the Filocolo and the Teseida.” Forty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2013.

“Not Another ‘Olde Storye’: The Rhetoric of Erasure in Chaucer’s Thebes.” Canada Chaucer Conference, Toronto, ON, April 2013.

“Not Another ‘Olde Storye’: The Rhetoric of Erasure in Chaucer’s Thebes.” Centre for Medieval Studies Conference: Britain, Ireland, and Italy: Cultural Exchanges c. 1270-c.1400, York, UK, January 2013.

“The Legend of Good Women and the Lore of Narrative Authority.” Eighteenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Portland, OR, July 2012.

“Simile Lordura, Altra Bolgia: Usurpation through Conflation in Inferno 26.” Forty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2012.

“Erasing the past in Dante’s Ulysses.” Vagantes Medieval Graduate Conference, Bloomington, IN, March 2012.

“Chaucer’s Conflicting Legend(s) of Good Women” in The Legend of Good Women: A Roundtable. Forty-Sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2011.

“High Style and its Critics: Charles Muscatine and the Clerk’s Tale.” Forty-Sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2011.

“Redressing Griselda: Concealed Allusion in the Clerk’s Tale.” Medieval Academy of America Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, April 2011. Awarded Best Graduate Paper Prize.

“Lucrece’s Illegitimacy: A Study of Chaucer’s Sources for this Particular Good Woman.” The Cardiff Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, Padua, IT, July 2010.

“Ab Arbe Condita Incognita and Clandestine Augustine”: Chaucer’s Hidden Sources in the Legend of Lucrece.” Forty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2010.

“A Few Good Women, No Good Men: The Authoritative Vacuum in the “Legend of Lucrece.” New England Medieval Studies Consortium, Storrs, CT, April 2010.

“Dante’s Metam-Orpheus: The Unspoken Presence of Orpheus in Inferno 4.” Forty-Fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2009.

Fellowships, Awards, Honors:

AWARDS

Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8,000 (2018)

HONORS

College of Liberal Arts Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching $1,000 (2017)

Alpha Chi National Honor Society Favorite Professor Award (2017), recognized by the graduate inductees to the chapter

Dante Society of America, Charles Hall Grandgent Award, $750.00 (2012), awarded for the best essay submitted by a graduate student from an American or Canadian university. “’Simile Lordura,’ Altra Bolgia: Authorial Conflation in Inferno XXVI.”

Medieval Academy of America Graduate Prize, $300.00 (2011), awarded for the best graduate essay at the annual meeting, Scottsdale, AZ. “Redressing Griselda: Concealed Allusion in the Clerk’s Tale.”

Aetna Graduate Critical Essay Contest, Second Place. University of Connecticut, $250.00 (2011). “Redressing Griselda: Restoration through Translation in the Clerk’s Tale.”

David and Esther Grosser Memorial Scholarship, McGill University, $400.00 (2008), awarded on the basis of academic merit to a student in the field of Jewish studies.

J.W. McConnell Award, McGill University, $5000.00 (2004), competitive university-wide scholarship awarded on the basis of high academic standing and faculty recommendations.

Jessie Norris Memorial Award, McGill University, $1, 500.00 (2004), awarded on the basis of academic merit to a student in the Department of English.

GRANTS

Non-teaching Dissertation Fellowship, English Department, University of Connecticut (Spring 2013)

Summer Predoctoral Award, English Department, University of Connecticut, $3,930 (2013).

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award, Graduate School, University of Connecticut, $2,000.00 (Spring 2012).

Donald Howard Travel Grant (New Chaucer Society) $400.00 (July 2012).

Summer Research Fellowship, English Department, University of Connecticut, $1,042.00 (2012).

Dean's Honor List, McGill University (2004).

IV. SERVICE

A. Institutional

University:

Co-organizer of TEMA (The Texas Medieval Association) 2015, San Marcos, TX, October 2015.

Department:

Invited Holly Crocker (University of South Carolina) to give a talk, March 2019

Invited Miller Oberman (The New School) to Skype into my “Development of English” course (October 2018)

Invited Robert Meyer-Lee (Agnes Scott College) to give a talk, March 2018

Invited Catherine Sanok (University of Michigan) to give a talk, March 2017

Invited Richard Firth Green (Ohio State University) to give a talk, March 2016

Invited Nancy Bradley Warren (Texas A&M) to give a talk, February 2015

Spoke on “Women in Academia” panel, sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society

Member of TKL Committee

Member of the Library Committee

Member of the Major/Minor Committee

B. Professional

Co-editor, “Looking Forward, Looking Back: Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women,” The Chaucer Review 51.4 (January, 2017)

Faculty Representative of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, 2015-18

Reader, The Chaucer Review, 2016-19

Judge, Best Article Award, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, 2016

Judge, Best graduate paper award, Annual Meeting of the Texas Medieval Association, 2016

Co-organizer and Chair, “The Legend of Good Women: Chaucer’s Mistake?” New Chaucer Society, London, England, July 2016

Chair, “Mediating Italian Literature," New Chaucer Society, London, England, July 2016

Judge, First Book Award, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, 2015

Graduate Representative of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, 2011-14

Co-organizer (with Kara Gaston), “Chaucer and Italian Poetics,” NEMLA, Toronto, ON, April 2015.

Organizer, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship Mentorship Exchange, 2014

Co-organizer (with Steven Rozenski, Andrew Kraebel, and Elizaveta Strakhov), “Translingual Authors: A Roundtable.” Forty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2014

Participant and Presenter, Yale/ UConn Medieval Working Group, 2008-2014

Co-organizer (with Wendy Hoofnagle), “Medieval Female Shape-Shifting and Alternatives to Agency.” Modern Language Association, Boston, MA. January 2013

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