EILEEN A. JOY

http://www.siue.edu/~ejoy

Curriculum Vitae

Figure 1. Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Luc Bory in Louis Malle's The Lovers (1958)

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in English (University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2001)
• M.F.A. in Creative Writing: Fiction (Virginia Commonwealth University, 1992)
• B.A. in English (Virginia Commonwealth University, 1984)

DISSERTATION

Beowulf and the Floating Wreck of History

• Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (August 2009 - present)
• Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University (August 2006 - July 2009)
  • Director of Graduate Studies (May 2007 - August 2009)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University (August 2005 - August 2006)
• Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (August 2003 - July 2005)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Asheville (July 2002 - July 2003)
• Assistant Professor, Francis Marion University (August 2000 - July 2002)
• Instructor, Francis Marion University (September 1999 - May 2000)
• Instructor, Pellissippi State Technical Community College (September 1998 - May 1999)

SCHOLARLY COLLECTIVE (Co-Founder and Lead Ingenitor)

• The BABEL Working Group

Figure 2. Jeanne Moreau as Marguerite Duras in Cet amour-là (2001)

PUBLICATIONS - SCHOLARLY

Books & Journal Volumes

• Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages, ed. Eileen Joy, Myra Seaman, Kimberly Bell, and Mary Ramsey (Palgrave Macmillan Press, New Middle Ages series, Dec. 2007)
• Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project, ed. Eileen Joy and Christine Neufeld, special issue, Journal of Narrative Theory 37.2 (Summer 2007)
• The Postmodern Beowulf: A Critical Casebook, ed. Eileen Joy and Mary Ramsey (West Virginia University Press, Jan. 2007)

Books & Journal Volumes in Progress:

• Postcard from the Volcano: Beowulf, Memory, History (monograph)
• Fragments Toward a History of a Vanishing Humanism, ed. Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, and Betsy McCormick (volume of essays; under review at Ohio State University Press)
• The State(s) of Anglo-Saxon Studies (special issue, The Heroic Age, Issue 14, Autumn 2009)
• When Did We Become Post/human?, ed. Eileen Joy and Craig Dionne, special issue, postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 1.1 (Spring 2010)

Full-length Articles & Book Chapters:

• "Strange Encounters: Andreas, Time-Knots, and Reparative Reading" (book Afterword, for Andrew Scheil, ed., Andreas: Critical Essays, Richard Rawlinson Reprint Series, Medieval Institute Publications; forthcoming in 2010)
• "The Seven Sleepers, Eros, and the Unincorporable Infinite of the Human Person" (forthcoming in Old English Newsletter, Subsidia Series, vol. 34: Anonymous Interpolations in Ælfric's Lives of Saints, ed. Robin Norris; Medieval Institute Publications; forthcoming in 2009)
• "In His Eyes Stood a Light, Not Beautiful: Levinas, Hospitality, Beowulf" (book chapter, in Levinas and Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts, ed. Ann Astell and Justin Jackson; Duquesne University Press, April 2009)
• "The Signs and Location of a Flight (or Return?) of Time: The Old English Wonders of the East and the Gujarat Massacre" (book chapter, in Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; Palgrave Macmillan, New Middle Ages series, Aug. 2008)
• "Good-bye to All That: The State of My Own Personal Field of Schizoid Anglo-Saxon Studies," The Heroic Age 11 (May 2008)
• "A Confession of Faith: Notes Toward a New Humanism" (co-authored with Christine Neufeld, in Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project; see above under "Books")
• "Through a Glass, Darkly: Medieval Cultural Studies at the End of History" (book Introduction, co-authored with Myra Seaman, in Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages; see above under "Books")
• "Exteriority Is Not a Negation But a Marvel: Hospitality, Terrorism, Levinas, Beowulf" (book chapter in Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages; see above under "Books")
• "Liquid Beowulf" (book Introduction, co-authored with Mary Ramsey, in The Postmodern Beowulf; see above under "Books")
• "On the Hither Side of Time: Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin," Medieval Perspectives 19 (2005)
• "Thomas Smith, Humfrey Wanley, and the 'little-known country' of the Cotton Library," The British Library Journal (2005)

Articles and Chapters in Progress

• "He Did Not Know Him by the Visage: Eros, Event, and Faciality in Malory's Tale of Balyn and Balan" (book chapter for Fragments Toward a History of a Vanishing Humanism; see above under "Books in Progress")
• "The Faded, Silvery Imprints of the Bare Feet of Angels: Beowulf, Leonardo, Kiefer" (book chapter for Beowulf: Culture, Context and Interpretations, ed. Nathan Breen, Rodopi Press, Dialogue series, 2009 or 2010)

Journal

• postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies

  a new journal in medieval studies, to be launched in 2010 with three issues a year; a production of the BABEL Working Group and Palgrave Macmillan; Eileen Joy and Myra Seaman, Editors

  

Journal Column

• "babelisms," The Heroic Age

  a regular column, edited by Eileen Joy, featuring essays on the artifacts—real and fictional, textual and otherwise—of early northwestern Europe in relation to the modern arts and postmodern critical thought

  • Issue 11: Daniel Murtaugh, "Absent Beowulf"
  • Issue 12: Helen Bennett, "The Postmodern Hall in Beowulf: Endings Embedded in Beginnings"

Review Essays, Books Reviews, & Short Essays:

• Review of Virginia Burrus, The Sex Lives of Saints: The Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), GLQ: A Journal of Gay & Lesbian Studies (forthcoming)
• Review of Laura Farina, Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2005: 4a. Literature: General and Miscellaneous," Old English Newsletter 39.2 (Winter 2007)
• Review of Eleanor Cook, Riddles and Enigmas in Literature (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006), Sixteenth Century Journal 39.1 (Spring 2008)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2004: 4a. Literature: General and Miscellaneous," Old English Newsletter 38.2 (Winter 2006)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2003: 4b. Literature: Individual Poems," Old English Newsletter 37.2 (Winter 2005)
• "After Everything, The Postmodern Beowulf" (book Preface, in The Postmodern Beowulf; see above under "Books")
• Review of Mark D. Meyerson, Daniel Thiery, and Oren Falk, eds., 'A Great Effusion of Blood'?: Interpreting Medieval Violence (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2004), Sixteenth Century Journal 37.3 (Fall 2006)
• Review of Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills, ed., The Monstrous Middle Ages (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2003), Sixteenth Century Journal 37.1 (Spring 2006)
• "James W. Earl's Thinking About Beowulf: Ten Years Later," The Heroic Age 8 (June 2005)
• Review of Emily Steiner, Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003), Sixteenth Century Journal 36.2 (Winter 2005)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2002: 4b. Literature: Individual Poems," Old English Newsletter 36.2 (Winter 2004)
• "Mark Leyner" (co-authored with Roy C. Flannagan), Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First-Century American Novelists, vol. 292 (Gale Publishing, 2004)
• "What Counts is Not to Say, but to Say Again: A Response to Thomas A. Bredehoft, 'Anglo-Saxonists and eBay'," Old English Newsletter 37.3 (Spring 2004)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2001: 4b. Literature: Individual Poems," Old English Newsletter 35.2 (Winter 2003)
• Review of Nicholas Howe, ed., Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World (Notre Dame Univ. Press, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal 34.4 (Winter 2003)
• Review of Blake Eskin, A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomiriski (W.W. Norton, 2002), Magill's Literary Annual, 2002 (Salem Press, 2003)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2000: 4b. Literature: Individual Poems," in Old English Newsletter 35.2 (Winter 2002)
• Review of Allen Frantzen, Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998), in Sixteenth Century Journal 33.4 (Winter 2002)
• Review of Susan Sontag, Where the Stress Falls (Farar, Straus and Giroux, 2001), Magill's Literary Annual, 2001 (Salem Press, 2002)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 1999: 4b. Literature: Individual Poems," in Old English Newsletter 34.2 (Winter 2001)
• Review of Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock, Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon (W.W. Norton, 2000), Magill's Literary Annual, 2000 (Salem Press, 2001)

Reviews and Essays in Progress:

• Review of Tison Pugh, Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature (for Sixteenth Century Journal)
• "Queer Theory and the Claim of the Human" (review essay for GLQ: A Journal of Gay & Lesbian Studies; books to be reviewed: Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence; Donna Haraway, The Donna Haraway Reader; Myra J. Hird, Sex, Gender, and Science; Luciana Parisi, Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology, and the Mutations of Desire)
• Review of April Harper and Caroline Proctor, eds., Medieval Sexuality: A Casebook (for Sixteenth Century Journal)
• Review of Conor McCarthy, Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry (for Speculum)

Figure 3. Catherine Deneuve in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965)

Weblogs:

• In The Middle (a group medieval studies weblog, fueled by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen @ George Washington University)

  Winner of the 2007 Cliopatria Award for Best Group Weblog in Historical Studies

Selected Posts:

Some Other Kind of Relation That is Not Just Possible But Already at Work: Reading, Criticism, Interpretation (30 October 2009)

As Though It Were the Writer's Duty to Create Hope, But Out of What? A Response to "The Language That Locks Others Out" (18 August 2009)

The Arrested Deployment of the Orgies of Childhood: Bersanian Relationalities, Part I (18 June 2009)

And Then There Was One: A Semi-Erotic Anti-Hagiography (2 June 2009)

Some More Thoughts on Pleasure, Even More on Wonder, and Also, Some Regrets: Could Our Medieval Studies, the One We Want, Also Be a Pleasure Garden? (17 May 2009)

While I Was Counting My Pleasures, I Fell Asleep and Dreamed that All My Thoughts Were a Paper Sculpture Garden: A Dialogue with Julie Orlemanski (14 May 2009)

A Time in Which Vagabonds and Skinny Dogs Wander in the Grey Fog: On Sadness (17 April 2009)

Faith of a Kind: Aggressive Hermeneutics, Felicitous Weak Ontologies, and the Possibility of Interpretive Communities (14 March 2009)

Not Yet Living at the Same Time with the Others: Prendergast, Trigg, and Dinshaw on Medievalism and the Supernatural (22 February 2009)

3 Posts on Elizabeth Freeman's Erotohistoriography:

• The Insistent Return of a Corporealized Historiography and Future Making: Elizabeth Freeman's Erotohistoriography (13 January 2009)
• Coming Unstuck in Time: Elizabeth Freeman's Erotohistoiography Redux, Part I (17 January 2009)
• Sadomasochism, Temporality, History: Elizabeth Freeman's Erotohistoriography Redux, Part II (14 February 2009)

Having the Stubbornness to Accept My Gladness in the Ruthless Furnace of the World: Cruising a Possibilistic, Potential Medieval Studies (29 November 2008)

Like an Old Inscription That Has Been Scratched Away and Covered with Leaves: A Meditation on the Face (19 October 2008)

Silence Makes Up the Bulk of My Estate: The Burden of History--Not Then, or Later, But Now (21 September 2008)

What Lies Before Us: Old English Studies, the Agon of Thought, and Our Moments of Unknowingness (22 August 2008)

Time is the Question of the Subject Seized by His or Her Other: The Intensities of an Ardor of a Different Kind in Carolyn Dinshaw's Queer Historicism (10 August 2008)

Gender Trouble (Again), and Again (5 July 2008)

Of Hospitals, Waiting Rooms, and Singular Unable Bodies (6 June 2008)

Dispatches from the Queer Future, Part I: Happiness, Killjoys, Sticky Objects, and a Plea for Arrested Development (30 May 2008)

It Is Understood By This Time that Everything Is the Same Except Composition and Time: Joan Retallack's The Poethical Wager (3 May 2008)

Towards a Restless Medieval Studies: Redux (29 April 2008)

Here Now Is One Who Will Increase Our Loves: On the Virtues (and Loves) of Beautiful Singularities (11 March 2008)

Between What Is Ours and What is Not Ours: Cary Howie's Claustrophilia, Anachronism, Friendship, and an Open Letter to My Profession (24 Feb. 2008)

The Other Middle Ages, A Place to Believe In, and the Fluidity of Frontiers (17 Feb. 2008)

Tracks Leading to Various Aspects of Existence that are Inaccessible by Any Other Means: Why I Teach Literature (30 Jan. 2008)

The Weight of History, A World Without Force, and The Wind That Shakes the Barley (7 Dec. 2007)

Medieval Studies, Unsettled Subjectivity, and the Thousand Tiny Itinerants of Saint Guthlac's Body (18 Nov. 2007)

The Loving Hope of Working Groups and Humanist Desiring-Revolutions (2 Nov. 2007)

Art Reveals More of Life Than Life Does: Heterosexuality, Erotohistoriography, and Our Perverse Desire for a Pleasurably Queer Medieval Studies (7 Oct. 2007)

A Terrible Beauty Is Not Reborn: Is Catharsis, or Tragedy, Still Possible? (25 Sep. 2007)

Murder, French Fries, and the Perverse Genre of the Lowbrow Tragi-Comedy (1 Sep. 2007)

Jumping the Shark, or Is it a Cow? Reply to Jeffrey (21 July 2007)

Forks in the Rift of Time: Moments-Becoming and Counter Counter-History (10 July 2007)

Burne-Jones, Chaucer, and the Slippage of Everything (30 April 2007)

Cho Seung-Hui and Emma Smith's "So What?": Why the Humanities Don't Matter, or, Into Our Own Dark Woods (21 April 2007)

Goin' Down to South Park by Way of John Mandeville (15 April 2007)

The Last One to Die, Please Turn Out the Light (3 April 2007)

Not Knowing in Advance What Forms Our Humanness Will Take (27 Feb. 2007)

Re: The Sharp Report of Scott Eric Kaufman's Owne Petard (18 Feb. 2007)

On Religion and Love: Some Random Thoughts Prompted by the Season (20 Dec. 2006)

Human Beings Will Not Split into Two Groups, Because We Will Run Out of Water First (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace My Irrelevance) (21 Oct. 2006)

• Literature Compass (a literary studies weblog fueld by Blackwell Publishers in Oxford, England)

Selected Posts:

In My Craft or Sullen Art Exercised in the Still Night: A Belated Report from the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo 2009 (26 August 2009)

Signaling to Each Other from Inscrutable Depths: A Response to Gabrielle Spiegel's "'Getting Medieval': History and the Torture Memos" (27 March 2009)

I'm a Pleasure Seeker, Looking for the Real Thing: We Are All Presentists Now (14 July 2008)

The Uses of the Past: The Hedgehog Review and Beyond (9 Sep. 2007)

A New, Baggy Humanism: The BABEL Working Group (25 July 2007)

The Other Kalamazoo (17 May 2007)

PUBLICATIONS - CREATIVE

• "Break Only In Case of An Emergency" (prose poem), Whiskey & Fox (forthcoming)
• "Personals for the Fictionally Forlorn" (short story), Sou'wester, Spring 2009
• "When It Was Morning" (short story), Sou'wester, Spring 2005
• "About the Author" (short story), Black Warrior Review, Fall/Winter 2000
• "Emma" (short story), in Worlds in Our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers (Boston: Blair Press/Prentice Hall), 1997
• "Lot's Wife" (short story), in Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction (Chicago: Fiction Collective 2 Press), 1995
• "On The Question of Redemption" (poem), The Sun, September 1993
• "Stones: A Love Story" (short story), The Sun, February 1993
• In Wisconsin the Blind Can Hunt (film script), produced and shown at The Atlanta Alternative Film Festival (1991), the Chicago Student Film Festival (1992, 2nd Place Winner: Alternative Category; Judge: Stephen Frears), the Milwaukee Alternative Film Festival (1992)
• "A Sweet, Crunchy Tart" (short story), Short Fiction By Women, 1992
• "All That Food in Limbo" (short story), New Virginia Review, Volume 8, 1991

GRANTS SUBMITTED

• "Premodern Humanisms, Modern Sciences, and the Posthuman Humanities" ($71,587 National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Humanities Workshops series grant; submitted Sep. 2007; not funded)
• "The Multiple Histories of Virtue" ($257,500 grant proposal to the University of Chicago's Arete Initiative project, "A New Science of Virtues"; submitted jointly by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Eileen Joy, Jessica Palmer, and Jonah Lehrer in March 2009; not funded)

INVITED TALKS

• Guest Lecturer: "Notes Toward a Theoretics for the Polluted Women of Imaginary Histories," The Newberry Library, Renaissance Consortium Seminar, "Unworthy Bodies: The Other Texts of the Beowulf Manuscript," led by Susan Kim (Jan. 2007)
• Guest Lecturer: "The Question of the Frontier in Herodotus's Histories and Beowulf," Wake Forest University, Humanities Seminar: "The Other Middle Ages," led by Gillian Overing and Ulrike Weithaus (February 2008)
• Featured Speaker: "That Splendid and Terribly Made Spectacle: Beholding Our Dead Enemies," Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH), "Beholding Violence: A Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Representation and Culture" (Feb. - Mar. 2008)
• Featured Speaker: “Between What is Ours and What is Not Ours: Claustrophilia, Attachment, Anachronism, Friendship,” Medieval Club of New York (CUNY Graduate Center, New York City), Lecture Series Panel: “Subjects of Friendship: Medieval and Medievalist” (March 2008)
• Panel Respondent: “Papers from Dr. Kim’s Seminar: The Other Texts of the Beowulf Manuscript,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (May 2008)
• Respondent: "Feminist, Lesbian and Gay, and Queer Responses to Chapter 2, 'Sexual Orientation,' of Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology," Intensive Interdisciplinary Seminar: "Sexuality and Phenomenology: Reading Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology," University College Dublin, co-hosted by The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research and the Humanities Institute of Ireland (May 2008)
• Paper Presenter: "Queer Times, Queer Bodies, and the Erotics of a Nomadic Anglo-Saxon Studies," King’s College London, The Second International Workshop of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, “Anglo-Saxon Futures 2: About Time” (May 2008)
• Guest Lecturer: “Chretien's Yvain and Modern Love,” French 699: Graduate Seminar in Medieval Studies, led by Anna Klosowska (Miami University at Oxford, Ohio), University of Burgundy, Dijon, France (July 2008)
• Panel Discussant: “Gender Trouble, Again,” Panel Session: “Locating Gender in the Middle Ages: A Roundtable Discussion” (co-sponsored by King’s College London and the Gender and Medieval Studies Group), International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (July 2008)
• Featured Speaker: “The Faded, Silvery Imprints of the Bare Feet of Angels: Notes Toward an Historical Poethics," Inaugural Symposium: "Touching the Past," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (November 2008)
• Panel Discussant: "Post-Institutional Assemblages and the Desiring-Machine of BABEL," Panel Session: "Getting the Medieval Studies We Want: Institutional Perspectives," sponsored by the George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (May 2009)
• Facilitator: Session 3: "Relationality," Intensive Interdisciplinary Seminar: "Reading Leo Bersani: A Retrospective," University College, Dublin, hosted by The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research in association with the School of English, Drama and Film (June 2009)
• Keynote Speaker: "Reading Beowulf in the Rubble of Grozny: Pre/modern Subjects, Post/human Rights, and the Question of Being-Together," 1st Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference: "Breaking Down Barriers," sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell Compass Journals (October 2009)
• Guest Speaker: "Alexander Penetrated and Undone: Queer Orientations in the Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle," Graduate Seminar, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (October 2009)
• Featured Speaker: "All At One Point," Seminar: "Cary Howie's Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (November 2009)
• Featured Speaker: University of Texas at Austin (March 2010)
• Featured Speaker: Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, New York University (April 2010)

Figure 4. Irene Jacob in Krystof Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique (1991)

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

• "Shafts or Freight Tunnels Constructed Between Objects that Otherwise Would Remain Quarantined in Private Vacuums: Chaucer’s Griselda and Lars von Trier’s Bess McNeill" (Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Siena, Italy, 2010)
• "It's Never Enough: Notes Toward a Saturated Literary Criticism" (45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2010)
• "I Wanted to See the Innermost Part of India: The Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle" (35th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Nashville, TN, 2009)
• "Alexander Penetrated and Undone: Queer Orientations in the Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle" (International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 2009)
• "The Light of Her Face was the Index of a Voluptuous Multiplicity of Guthlacs: Desire and Incest in the Lives of Saint Guthlac" (44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2009)
• "He Did Not Know Him by the Visage: Nomads, Combinards, and the Knight with Two Swords" (Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia, PA, 2008)
• "Eros and Event in Malory's Tale of Balyn and Balan" (34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Saint Louis, MO, 2008)
• "The Thousand Tiny Itinerants of Saint Guthlac’s Body: Redux" (International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 2008)
• "Dying Is an Art, Like Everything Else: The Lowly, Unsettled Aesthetics of Guthlac-Becoming" (43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2008)
• "You Must Change Your Life: Woody Allen's Another Woman" (Southern Illinois University Spring Colloquium: Thinking About the University, Edwardsville, IL, 2008)
• "The Thousand Tiny Itinerants of Saint Guthlac's Body" (49th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, Ohio, 2007)
• "Beyond Feminist, Gender, Queer, Everything Studies: Notes Toward an Enamored Medieval Studies " (42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2007)
• "White Trash Macbeth: Scotland, PA and the Deadly Seriousness of Comedy" (48th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, 2006)
• "The Seven Sleepers, Eros, and the Unincorporable Infinite of the Human Person" (41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006)
• "Eros, Love, Regard, and the Humanities" (41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006)
• "The Wild, Uncontrolled Time of the Individual-Becoming" (31st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Daytona Beach, FL, 2005)
• "The Shadow of the Blackbird Crossed the Wonders of the East, To and Fro" (31st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Daytona Beach, FL, 2005)
• "honour desires the body's pain: The Posthuman Circuits of Chivalric Desire in Chretien de Troyes's Yvain and the Iraq War" (Midwest Conference on British Studies, Notre Dame, IN, 2005)
• "Because They Were Scandalous in Their Bodies: The Old English Wonders of the East and the Mutilation of the Women of Gujarat, India" (Annual Medieval Academy Meeting, Miami, FL, 2005)
• "Because the Mountain is All Aflame: The Old English Wonders of the East and the Mutilation of the Women of Gujarat, India" (22nd Annual Conference of the Illinois Medieval Association, Carbondale, IL, 2005)
• "The Cannibal Poetics and Hypnotic Glimmer of the Chivalric Self in Medieval Romance and the Iraq War" (Southern Illinois University Spring Colloquium: Thinking About Masculinity, Edwardsville, IL, 2005)
• "Medieval Community/Liquid Modernity" (30th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Charleston, SC, 2004)
• "Beyond the State in the State: Beowulf, Levinas, and the Ethics of Hospitality" (39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2004)
• "Empire and the Obscure Object of Terrorism" (Southern Illinois University Spring Colloquium: Thinking About Empire, Edwardsville, IL, 2004)
• "My Borders Have Only Ever Been Broached By Books: Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin" (29th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Fayetteville, AK, 2003)
• "The Elsewhere Ghosts of Beowulf" (38^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2003)
• "Last Things and Lieux de Memoire: The Electronic Beowulf and The Last Supper" (28^th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Tallahassee, FL, 2002)
• "The Time of Beowulf is Infinite in Every Direction" (37^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2002)
• "Beowulf and the Curators, Bound and Unbound" (27^th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, New Orleans, LA, 2001)
• "Beowulf, Broken Symmetries, and the Edge of Chaos" (Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, 2000)
• "John Mitchell Kemble and the Floating Wreck of History" (26th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Asheville, NC, 2000)
• "They Talked Too Much: Elegy for the Early English Text Society" (35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2000)  
• "Theses for a Philosophy of Teaching" (Values in Higher Education Conference, Knoxville, TN, 1996)  
• "'In Hys blod He wesch my wede on dese, and coronde clene in vergynty': Pearl and Female Spirituality" (65th Annual Convention of SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, 1995; nominated for Graduate Student Essay Prize)
• "What is Seized: Beowulf as Cultural Memory" (30th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 1995)  
• "'Mais quelle etreinte etait-ce la?': The Individual, the Community and God in Camara Laye's Le Regard du roi" (35th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Seattle, WA,1992)