CURRICULUM VITAE KATHY LAVEZZO Business Address: Department of English University of Iowa 308 EPB Iowa City, IA 52242 Phone: 319-335-0294 Email: kathy-lavezzo@uiowa.edu EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL HISTORY 2. Higher Education University of California, Santa Barbara (1992-1999), English, Ph.D., 1999 University of California, Berkeley (1992), Intensive Latin Program, 1992 University of Virginia (1988-91), English, M.A., 1988 University of California, Los Angeles (1983-88), English and Economics, B.A., 1988 3. Professional and Academic Positions Associate Professor (2006-2014), English, University of Iowa Fellow, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan (2013) Scholar in Residence (2007), Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Assistant Professor (1999-2006), English, University of Iowa Teaching Assistant (1992-1998), Teaching Assistant, University of California, Santa Barbara 4. Memberships Medieval Academy Modern Language Association New Chaucer Society TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 1. Teaching Assignments Semester and Year COURSES TAUGHT Number and Title Students Enrolled Advisees UG Grad Fall 1999 8:71/Selected Authors: Chaucer 25 12 2 8: 101/Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: 25 Premodern Geographies Spring 2000 8:62/Selected Works of the Eighteenth Century: Gothic and Exotic 8:160/Selected Themes in Literary Works: Romancing the Middle Ages 31 2 13
8:71/Selected Authors: Chaucer 23 30 2 Fall 2000 Spring 2001 8: 101/Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: Cultures of Death in Medieval England 8:60/ Selected Works of the Middle Ages: The Pearl-Poet 8:402: Cultures of Death in Medieval England 30 29 7 Fall 2001 8:101/Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: 30 30 3 Cultures of Death in Medieval England 08:098:002/Honors Proseminar: Gothic 13 Spring 2002 8:71/Selected Authors: Chaucer 30 8:160/Selected Themes in Literary Works: 14 Mapping Sex, Death and the Body (Politic) in the Pearl-Poet Spring 2004 8:71/Selected Authors: the Pearl-Poet 32 8:402/Medieval Cultural Geography 9 Summer 2004 8:84/ Topics in Culture and Identity: Sex, 24 Gender, and Contemporary Gothic Culture Fall 2004 8:60 Selected Works of the Middle Ages: 32 Arthurian Literatures 8:101: Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: 32 Mapping Medieval Women Spring 2005 8:96 Honors Proseminar: The Single Woman 32 8:146 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales 32 Fall 2005 8:146 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales 28 8:216 Medieval Authors: The Canterbury Tales 15 Spring 2006 8:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: 30 Mapping Medieval Women 8:60 Arthurian Literatures 30 Fall 2006 8:60 Arthurian Literatures 32 8:71 Selected Authors: The Pearl-poet 30 Spring 2007 8:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: 29 Mapping Medieval Women and Men 8:402 Seminar Medieval Literature: Medieval 11 Geographies of Gender and Sexuality Spring 2008 8:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: 29 Mapping Medieval Women and Men 8:146 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales 28 Fall 2008 8:146 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales 26 8:60 Arthurian Literatures 28 Spring 2009 8:402 Seminar Medieval Literature Mapping Jews and Saracens in Medieval English Literature 10 26
Fall 2009 Spring 2010 8:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: Geographies of Race and Ethnicity 8:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: Geographies of Race and Ethnicity 8:146 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales 8:60 Selected Works of the Middle Ages: Arthurian Romance 8:218 Readings in Medieval Literature and Culture 25 24 33 15 1 2 Fall 2010 8:146 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales 8:76 Selected Early Authors: The Pearl-poet 21 24 3 Spring 2011 8:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages 27 3 Fall 2011 8:101 Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages 22 2 Spring 2012 8:146 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales 22 8:216 Medieval Authors: Chaucer 8 8:595 PhD Thesis 2 Fall 2012 8:146 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales 28 8:402 Seminar Medieval Literature and Culture 12 8:595 PhD Thesis 1 Fall 2013 008:206:001 Colloquium: Teaching Literature 24 008:029:002 First-Year Seminar: Medieval Maps 12 and Modern Identities 008:076:001 Selected Early Authors: The Pearl- 24 Poet ENGL:6960:0001 24 Colloquium: Teaching Literature 008:595:081 PhD Thesis 1 Spring 2014 ENGL:1320:0001 Chaucer: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales ENGL:3226:0SCA Literature and Culture of the Middle Ages: ENGL:7970:0081 Advanced Studies in Literary Criticism ENGL:7999:0081 PhD Thesis 19 24 1 1 Fall 2014 ENGL:3286:0001 Chaucer ENGL:6960:0001 Colloquium: Teaching Literature ENGL:6110:0001 Medieval Authors 22 27 7
2. Students Supervised Name Topic Role Outcome Ph.D. Dissertations: Vincent Rotkiewicz Memory and Rebellion in Member Expected 2016 14 th and 15 th c. English Literature Bethany Smith Medieval Texts and Member Expected 2016 the Ludic Imagination Sonja Mayerhofer The Body (Un)Balanced: Member February 2015 Humoral Theory and Late Medieval Literature Tom Blake Royal Materials: The Chair May 2014 Object of Queens in Late Medieval Romance Michael Sarabia The Extinction of Fiction: Member Expected 2015 Metalepsis and the Acknowledgement of Fictive Persons in Medieval Literature Chris Vinsonhaler The Prophetic Beowulf Member April 2013 Tracy Stuhr Re-Sounding Natures: Member May 2013 Voicing the Non-Human in Medieval English Poetry Stephanie Norris Narrating Bodily Chair May 2012 and Psychic Change in Romance Joseph Rodriguez Rise and Fall: Tropes Member May 2012 Of Verticality in Middle English Literature Travis Johnson Masculinity and Member May 2011 Emotional Communities Erin Mann Sexuality, Literature Co-Chair May 2011 and the Bible
Katherine Gubbels Queer Digressions Member May 2010 In Medieval and Early Modern Romance Richard Garrett Medieval Member May 2011 Vernacular Fable Chris Burgess Eloquence in Member Expected, 2009 Medieval English Poetry John Pendell Language Contact Member Expected, 2009 In Old and Middle English Literature* Vicki Larson Publication History of Member Fall 2008 Julian of Norwich's Book of Showings, 1373-1843." Jeff Doty Popularity in Early Member November 2008 Modern England Mark Bruce Figure of Scotland Member Fall, 2006 in Medieval English National Fantasy* Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam: Vincent Rotkiewicz Bethany Smith Michael Sarabia Sonja Mayrhofer Tom Blake Kristi Diclemente Stephanie Norris Chris Vinsonhaler Travis Johnson Joseph Rodriguez Erin Mann Tracy Stuhr Ann Pleiss Morris Shawn Patrick Doyle Lindsey Row-Heyveld Katherine Gubbels Chris Burgess Jeff Doty Mark Bruce John Pendell Richard Garrett Article Article Historical List Article Historical List Outside reader Article Historical List Historical List Special Interest Area Special Interest Area Article Fifth Examiner Special Interest Area Fifth Examiner Fifth Examiner Special Interest Area Special Interest Area Special Interest Area Article Article
Graduate Independent Study Tracy Stuhr Geography and Instructor n/a Medieval Rhetoric Undergraduate Independent Study Nicole Thompson Arthurian Literature Instructor n/a Abigail Ashford-Grooms Women s Studies Instructor n/a Honors Theses Deirdre Heneghan Medieval Maps and Supervisor 2014-5 Monstrous Depictions: 300 and the East Aubrey Bierwith ON LONDE: Christian and Second Reader 2014 Heroic Traditions and the Concept of Home in Anglo-Saxon Society Alissa Smith Second Reader 2009 Abby Ashford-Grooms Sentiment, Gender, Co-Supervisor 2006 and Jewish Identity in Fannie Hurst s fiction* 2. Other Contributions to Instructional Programs Featured 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 1. Publications or Creative Works a. Refereed Books Jews in Britain-Medieval to Modern, (Philological Quarterly 92.1[2013]). 130 pp. [journal issue containing 6 essays with introduction]. 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: Ælfric 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). a. Book Reviews Review 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): 204-7 Review 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): <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_ history/v003/3.1lavezzo.html>.
Review 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. 2. Published Reviews of Scholarship Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534: Medium Ævum 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): http://www.cro2.org/default.aspx?page=reviewdisplay&pid=3258785l; H-Net: (September, 2006):http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=12260; The Medieval Review (2006). http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.baj9928.0704.016; 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 GRANTS External Year Amount Agency Research 2013 $29,000 Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic 2 nd Book on antisemitic literature Studies 2002-3 $40,000 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Institute Book: English cartography, for Research in the Humanities Cardinal Wolsey, and (Solmsen Postdoctoral Fellowship) John Skelton s poetry 2002-3 $37,500 University of Notre Dame Medieval Institute Book: English cartography, A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Cardinal Wolsey, and (Declined) John Skelton s poetry 1999 $1,800 Huntington Library Dissertation: signature Mayers Fellowship manuscript of Higden s Polychronicon Internal Year Amount Agency Research 2011 $6,000 Obermann Center 2 nd Book Project and article 2010 $6,000 Presidential Faculty Fellowship festschrift and article 2007 Career Development Award 2 nd Book: Project Description 2006-7 $7,500 Arts and Humanities Initiative 2 nd Book: Chaucer s Prioress s Tale 2000 $4,700 University of Iowa Book: Chaucer s Man of Law s Old Gold Fellowship Tale 1999 $2,500 University of Iowa Book: Archival Research at the CIFRE Award British Library on medieval maps 1999 $4,000 University of California, Santa Barbara Dissertation: the Alliterative Dissertation Fellowship Morte Arthure 1999 $1,500 University of California, Santa Barbara Dissertation: Introduction and Friends of English Higden s Polychronicon Dissertation Fellowship 1997-8 $12,000 University of California, Santa Barbara Dissertation: Ælfric s prose and Graduate Humanities Research Associateship the Man of Law s Tale 1997 $5,000 University of California, Santa Barbara Dissertation: Ælfric s prose and Interdisciplinary Humanities Center the Man of Law s Tale Predoctoral 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.
5. Lectures and Conference Presentations a. Invited International 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, 41 st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo (5 May 2006) [invited lecture] National Textuality, Mindfulness and Technology, Sex, Text and Politics: A Symposium in Honor of Carol Pasternack, University of California, Santa Barbara (18 Jan. 2014) 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] b. Refereed International Histrionic and Historical Houses: Jewish Dwellings in Bury St. Edmunds and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, 19 th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Reykjavík, Iceland (18 July 2014) 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, 18 th 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, 16 th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Swansea, Wales (20 July 2008) The Prioress and the Privy, 15 th 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, 39 th 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: Ælfric 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) National Building 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) "Ælfric 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) SERVICE Department 2013-15 Director, General Education Literature Program 2014 Organized Guest Lecture by Michael Schoenfeldt (John R. Knott, Jr. Collegiate Professor of English, University of Michigan) 2012 Organized Fall 2012 Guest Lecture by Stacy Klein (Associate Professor of English, Rutgers) 2011-present General Education in Literature Faculty Advising Committee 1999-2012 McGalliard Award Committee Chair 2007-present Editorial Board, Philological Quarterly 2009-2011 Graduate Admissions Committee 2009-2011 Graduate Steering Committee 2008-2011 Qualifications Chair 2008-2009 Early Modern Search Committee 2008-2009 Organized Spring 2009 Guest Lecture by Anthony Bale (Senior Lecturer in Medieval Studies, Birkbeck, University of London) 2008-2009 Organized Spring 2009 Guest Lecture by Cathy Sanok (Associate Professor of English, University of Michigan) 2007-008 Early Modern Search Committee Consultant 2005-2008 Graduate Admissions Committee spring 2007 Executive Committee 2004-2007 Graduate Steering Committee 2004-2007 Chair, Graduate Placement Committee fall 2006 Outcomes Assessment Taskforce 2005 Organized Fall 2005 Guest Lecture by Geraldine Heng (Associate Professor of English, UT Austin) 2004-2005 Hiring Committee Medieval/Early Modern Search 2001-2002 Graduate Admissions Committee 2001-2002 Graduate Finance Committee 2001 Organized Guest Lecture by L.O. Aranye Fradenburg (Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara) 2001 Graduate Qualifications Committee 1999-2001 Graduate Placement Committee 1999-2002 General Education in Literature Faculty Advising Committee 1999-2000 Hiring Committee Eighteenth-Century Search
University 2014 2012 O8G:001 (Interpretation of Literature) Review Committee, CLAS 2009-12 Faculty Assembly 2009-12 University Lectures Committee 2011 Organized PQ Symposium on the Idea of the Jew in Medieval Britain 2011 Nominating Committee, Faculty Assembly 2011 Statement Committee, Faculty Assembly 2010-11 Secretary, Faculty Assembly 2011 Brought to Campus Ida Beam Visiting Scholar Jeffrey J. Cohen 2007-10 Medieval Studies Program Coordinating Committee Profession Chair, MLA Executive Committee, Division on Chaucer (2014) Secretary, MLA Executive Committee, Division on Chaucer (2013) Member, MLA Executive Committee, Division on Chaucer (2011-12) Organizer, three panels on (Absent) Jews in the Middle, 19 th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Reykjavík, Iceland (17 July 2014) Chair, 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. Referee for book submissions to Broadview Press, University of Toronto Press and St. Martin s Press Medieval Cultures Series. Referee for article submissions to Modern Philology, 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, 18 th 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).