EDUCATION

• Ph.D., English, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 1999
• M.A., English, Stanford University, 1990-91
• B.A., with honors, Independent Major in Renaissance Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1986-89

EMPLOYMENT

• Assistant Professor of English Allegheny College, 2000-present
• Lecturer: University of California, Santa Barbara Writing Program, Fall 1999-Spring 2000
University of California, Santa Barbara English Department, Summer-Fall 1999

DISSERTATION

"The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England"
Director: Carol Braun Pasternack
Committee: Margaret W. Ferguson, Aranye L.O. Fradenburg, Michael O'Connell

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture, Vol. 13. Routledge, 2002.

Articles:

• Entry on Lucy Hutchinson in Encyclopedia Of Women's Autobiography. Victoria Boynton and Jo Malin, eds. Greenwood Press, 2005.

• Afterword. Parenting and Printing in Early Modern England. Douglas Brooks, ed. Ashgate Press, 2004.

• "I wyl wright of women prevy sekenes": Imagining Female Literacy and Textual Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Midwifery Manuals. Special Issue Issue on Literacies/Identities in Early Modern England, Critical Survey, Vol. 14.no.1, 2002.

• “‘be unto me as a precious ointment': Lady Grace Mildmay: Sixteenth-Century Female Practitioner’ in Dynamis. International Journal of the History of Science and Medicine, Special Issue on "Women and Health: Practices and Knowledges” June 1999 (Vol.19) 95-117.

Current Book Project:
Sexual Healing: Charms, Potions, and the Female Healer Managing the Sexual Body in Medieval and Early Modern Romance

"Sexual Healing: Charms, Potions, and the Female Healer Managing the Sexual Body in
The Romance of Tristan and Yseut." (Invited submission as part of a collection of essays to be considered by Cambridge Scholars.)

PRESENTATIONS

• "Sexual Healing: Charms, Potions, and the Female Healer Managing the Sexual Body in Medieval and Early Modern Romance." Allegheny College Intramural Conference, May 16, 2006.

• "Sexual Healing: Charms, Potions, and the Female Healer Managing the Sexual Body in the Romance of Tristan and Yseut." International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 2006.

• materia medica/materia magica: Managing the Anglo Saxon Sexual Body through Charms, Penitentials, and the early English Apollonius of Tyre. South Atlantic Modern Language Association (November 2004).

• Performing Maternities Seminar Participant at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Kathryn Moncreif and Kathryn McPherson, organizers (April 2003).

• "Playing Pregnancy: Social Practices and the Dramatic Representation of Childbirth in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale." UCSB Early Modern Center Conference: "Bodies, Bawdies, and Nobodies": Early Modern Women, 1500-1800 (February 2003)

• "Imagining Female Textual Communities: Medical Literacy and Social Class in Medieval Midwifery Manuals." International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (May 2002).

• "'let your loins be girt about, and your lamps burn clearly': Imaging Female Literacy and Textual Communities in Thomas Bentley's The Monument of Matrones." RSA and ACMRS Joint Annual Meeting (April 2002).

• Literacies/Identities in Early Modern England. Workshop at the Shakespeare Association of America. Eve Sanders and Margaret Ferguson, organizers (April 2001).

• "A Very Maternal Madness: Female Birth Communities and Madness in The Book of Margery Kempe," Humanities Lecture Series, Allegheny College (January 2001).

• "Birth into Eternity: Birth Metaphors in Julian of Norwich's Book of Showings," International Medieval Institute at Leeds (July 2000). Organized panel on "Eternal Maternity."

• "A Very Maternal Madness: Female Birth Communities and Madness in The Book of Margery Kempe," The International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 1999).

• "With grievous groanes & deepe sighes: Goodly Works and Godly Words in The Monument of Matrones,” The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference at Big Sky, Montana (June 1998).

• "Gossip and the Subjectivity of Historical Transmission in Chaucer's House of Fame," The International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (May 1994). By Proxy.

• "Unbridled Babbling and Birthing: The Association of Gossip with Childbirth in Letter CLIII of Margaret Cavendish's Sociable Letters," UC Santa Barbara Faculty and Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Early Modern Conference (April 1994).

• "A Human Interface: Gossip in the Alien Trilogy," The National Graduate Women's Studies Conference at UC San Diego (April 1994).

• "Aliengossip," panel on "Intervention in the Institution," An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference of the Graduate Women's Discussion Group at UC Santa Barbara (May 1993). By Proxy.

• "The Life of Saint Elisabeth of Spalbeck: Sacred Biography as Drama," The International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo (May 1992).

• "The Life of Saint Elisabeth of Spalbeck: Sacred Biography as Drama," Medieval Association of the Pacific (February 1992).

• "The Life of Saint Elisabeth of Spalbeck," panel on "The Spectacle of Dismemberment," Columbia Medieval Guild Conference (October 1991).

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

•Thoburn Foundation Teaching Award, 2005
• Demmler Endowment Grant for Innovative Teaching, 2005 and 2006 (Medieval and Renaissance Studies Minor Course Development)
• Faculty Development Research Grant, 2007-2008
• Faculty Development Research Grant, 2004-2005
• Faculty Development Research Grant, 2001-2002
• Kappa Alpha Theta Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, 2001-2
• Kappa Kappa Gamma Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, 2001-2
• Panhellinic Professor of the Month, Spring 2002
• Lambda Sigma Honors Society Professor of the Month, Fall 2001
• Outstanding Faculty Member, Residence Halls Association & The Office of Residential Life, UC Santa Barbara, 1999
• 2000 Nomination: Outstanding Faculty Award, UC Santa Barbara, 1999-2000
• Graduate Division Travel Grant, UC Santa Barbara, 1998
• Nomination: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, UC Santa Barbara, 1994-1995
• California State Graduate Fellowship, 1991-5
• Graduate Student Fee Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara, 1991-2
• Honors in Renaissance Studies, UC Berkeley, 1989

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor:

• Introduction to Women's Studies
• Medieval Drama
• Cultural History of the English Language
• Practice of Everyday Life in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
• Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales)
• Approaches to Reading Literature
• Women & Literature
• Medieval Women of Europe and Asia
• Studies in Early British Literature
• Mystics and Martyrs
• Magic and Transformation in Medieval Romance
• Topics in the Middle Ages: Masculine and Feminine Bodies
• Interdisciplinary Studies: 1381: Princes and Paupers
• Freshman Seminar: Sex and Gender

Lecturer (Post Doctorate): Full responsibility for teaching courses, including syllabus design, assignments, lectures, discussions, examinations, and grading.

•Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales), UCSB English Department, Summer 1999
•Introduction to Literary Study, UCSB English Department, Fall 1999
•Freshman Composition (Sexuality and Gender: Writing Across the Curriculum), Writing Program, UCSB, Winter 1999-Spring 2000

Teaching Associate: Full responsibility for teaching courses, including syllabus design, assignments, lectures, discussions, examinations, and grading.

•European Renaissance (Humanism, Gender and (Re)Production), UCSB Off Campus Studies, Fall 1998
•Survey of English Literature (Beowulf to Milton), UCSB English Department, Summer 1995
•Introduction to Literary Study, UCSB English Department, Winter 1996
•Freshman Reading and Composition, UCSB Writing Program, Spring 1995, Spring 1994, Winter 1993, Fall 1992

Teaching Assistant: Designed and led sections, wrote assignments for and graded all student papers and exams.

•Science Fiction, UCSB English Department, Summer 1998
•Shakespeare, UCSB English Department, Winter 1995, Winter 1992
•Survey of English Literature (Beowulf to Milton), UCSB English Department, Fall 1994, Stanford English Department, Fall 1990
•Introduction to Literary Study, UCSB English Department, Winter 1994
•Milton, UCSB English Department, Spring 1992

Reader: Responsible for grading all student papers and exams.

•17th Century English Literature, UC Berkeley English Department, Spring 1990
•Shakespeare, UC Berkeley English Department, Spring 1990
•Middle English Literature, UC Berkeley English Department, Fall 1989
•Expository Composition, UC Berkeley English Department, Fall 1989

Tutor, Workshop Leader, Senior Tutor: Responsible for developing and implementing the Tutor Training Program, participation in hiring 1st semester tutors, continued supervision of 1st and 2nd semester tutors, tutoring individuals and facilitating writing workshops in Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Freshman Composition, Asian-American Studies, Afro-American Studies, Native American Studies, Chicano Studies, Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and English.

•UC Berkeley Student Learning Center, 1986-1991
•UC Berkeley Summer Bridge Program, Summer 1989, 1990, 1991
•UC Berkeley Education 198, taught section on writing skills, Fall 1989, Spring 1990
•Laney Community College, Reading Instructor for Bridge Program, 1987
•Laney Community College, Learning Disabled Instructor in Math and Reading, 1987
•Laney Community College, Writing Tutor in AA/EOP Program, 1987
•Los Angeles Valley College, Writing Tutor in AA/EOP Program, 1986

RESEARCH AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Committee Service
• Faculty Council, Allegheny College (2006-present)
• Women's Studies Steering Committee, Allegheny College (2002-present)
• Committee on Discriminatory and Sexual Harassment, Chair, Allegheny College (2002-2005)
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Studies Minor Coordinator (2003-2006)
• Committees on: Writing Across the Curriculum and Composition for Engineers, UCSB Writing Program (1999-2000)
• Graduate Representative, MA Exam Reading List Committee on Medieval Literature, UC Santa Barbara, English Department (1995-1997)
• Lectures Committee, UC Santa Barbara English Department (1995-6)

Research Assistant Positions
• "Transcriptions" (Alan Liu, Carol Braun Pasternack), 1999.
• Carol Braun Pasternack, 1992
• Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Summer, 1992
• Seth Lerer, Winter and Spring 1991

Conference Coordinator
UCSB Renaissance Studies Conference, UC Santa Barbara, 1995 (assistant coordinator), 1994, 1993 (coordinator), 1992 (assistant coordinator)

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Medieval Literature
• Feminist Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies
• History of Medieval and Early Modern Sexuality
• Medieval and Early Modern Drama
• Medieval and Early Modern Romance
• Chaucer
• Cultural History of the English Language
• Medieval and Early Modern Women Writers
• Early Modern Poetry
• Shakespeare
• Women's Studies

LANGUAGES

• French, Old English, Latin

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Medieval Academy of America
• Modern Language Association Renaissance Association of America
• Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association
• Shakespeare Association of America
• Renaissance Society of America

REFERENCES

• Professor Carol Braun Pasternack, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Professor Jim Bulman, English Department, Allegheny College
• Professor Margaret W. Ferguson, English Department, University of California, Davis
• Professor Aranye L.O. Fradenburg, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Professor Michael O’Connell, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Professor Ben Slote, English Department, Allegheny College

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