"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)
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"A Sweet, Crunchy Tart" (short
story), Short Fiction By Women, 1992
"All That
Food in Limbo" (short story), New Virginia Review, Volume 8, 1991
MAJOR GRANTS
SUBMITTED
- "Premodern
Humanisms, Modern Sciences, and the Posthuman Humanities" ($71,587
National Endowment for the Humanities "Faculty Humanities Workshops" grant; co-submitted in Sep. 2007 with Myra Seaman, College of Charleston; 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 in March 2009 with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington University, Jessica Palmer, National Institutes of Health, and Jonah Lehrer, Seed Magazine; not funded)
- "The Muslim World and the Humanities: Islam in Middle America" ($120,000 National Endowment for the Humanities "Bridging Cultures: Planning and Implementation Grants for Academic Forums and Program Development Workshops"; co-submitted in May 2010 with Steve Tamari, S.I.U.E.; primary partners: Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies @Washington University of Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum, Center for Muslim-Chrisian Understanding @Georgetown University, Missouri History Museum, and Edwardsville Public Library (Illinois); not funded.
- "Inhuman Actors: Tracing the Lives of Objects in Medieval Literature" ($114,700 American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Fellowship; submitted in Sep. 2011 with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington University; 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: "A Break Within the Flow of Absolute Consciousness? Malory's Balyn," Department of English, University of Texas at Austin (March 2010)
- Featured Speaker: "Embracing the Swerve : A Fugitive Medieval Studies," Special Forum: "Always Historicize? Historicism, Post-historicism, and Medieval Studies," Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, New York University (April 2010)
- Featured Speaker: "Spiritually Liquefying Speech," "An Afternoon of Queer Post-Medievalism," Cornell University, hosted by the Society for the Humanities, Department of Romance Studies, and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program (April 2010)
- Featured Speaker: "Assemblage, Faciality, and Event in Malory's Balyn and Balan," Medieval and Renaissance Center Spring Conference: "Medieval Nature and Its Others," New York University (April 2010)
- Featured Speaker: "Like Two Autistic Moonbeams Piercing the Windows of Each Other’s Asylum: Violence, Community, and the Ethics of Care in Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale and Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves," Visiting Scholar Series, Dept. of English, College of Charleston (September 2010)
- Plenary Speaker: "You Are Here: A Manifesto," Conference: "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (March 2011)
- Featured Speaker: "I Am Ruined But Not Afraid: Poetry as Address," Symposium: "Queer Optimism & Affective Poetry," Poets House, New York City (April 2011)
- Panel Discussant: "The Time of Beowulf Is Infinite in Every Direction: Redux," Panel Session: "Beowulf and History," sponsored by the Oregon Medieval English Literature Society, 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (May 2011)
- Featured Speaker: "I Have Given Up Trying to Recognize You in the Surging Wave of the Next Moment: The Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle as a System in Cascade," Conference: "Literature and Identity Formation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium," Center for Canon and Identity Formation (CIF), University of Copenhagen, Denmark (May 2011)
- Guest Lecturer: "On Michael Haneke's Cache," French
699: Graduate Seminar in Medieval Studies, led by Anna Klosowska
(Miami University at Oxford, Ohio), University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
(June 2011)
- Featured Instructor: "Toward a Speculative Realist Literary Criticism," The Public School of New York, Brooklyn, New York City (September 2011)
- Featured Speaker: "Toward a Speculative Realist Literary Criticism: Redux," Literature and the Mind & the Medieval Literatures Initiative, University of California-Santa Barbara (October 2011)
- Featured Speaker: "it would be hard to say exactly what I felt: Vibrations in the Archive," School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne (December 2011)
- Featured Speaker: "An Improbable Manner of Being: Medieval Hagiography, Queer Studies, and Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves," Australian Research Council Symposium: "International Medievalism and Popular Culture," University of Western Australia (December 2011)
- Invited Lecturer: "More Notes Toward a Speculative Realist Literary Criticism," Svenska Twitteruniversitet [The Swedish Twitter University] (December 2011)
- Workshop Leader: "Nonhumans: Ecology, Ethics, Objects," Eastern Michigan University (February 2012)
- Featured Speaker: "Oceanic Sorrow: Elegy for Detroit," Symposium: "Ecological Movement," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (February 2012)
- Moderator: Journal of Narrative Theory "Dialogue" Colloquium: "Nonhumans: Ecology, Ethics, Objects" (Featured Speakers: Jeffrey J. Cohen and Timothy Morton), Eastern Michigan University (March 2012)
- Panel Discussant: "Para-Academic Publishing," Public Lecture Series on Para-Academia, The Public School New York, Obervatory Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (April 2012)
- Panel Discussant: "Post-Space: A Virtual Conference on the Future of the Physical," The The Hollow Earth Society, Elsewhere Collaborative (April 2012)
- Panel Discussant: "#Occupy Humanities," Panel Session: "Literature, Theory, and the Future of Medieval Studies: Middle English and Its Others," sponsored by Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (May 2012)
- Featured Speaker: "Guerrilla Metaphysics, Alien Phenomenology, Massive Addressability, and Other Strange Attractors of a Possible Object Oriented Criticism," Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies Lecture Series, University of Alabama (August 2012)
- Invited Lecturer: "Speculative Realisms: An Object-Oriented Ontology Seminar," Department of English, Northeastern University (September 2012)
- Respondent: "Object-Oriented Feminism," two panels organized by Katherine Behar (featuring: Katherine Behar, Jamie Skye Bianco, Ian Bogost, Patricia Clough, Katherine Hayles, Timothy Morton, Anne Pollock, and Steven Shaviro), 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (September 2012)
- Featured Speaker: "Guerrilla Metaphysics, Alien Phenomenology, Massive Addressability, and Other Strange Attractors of a Possible Object Oriented Criticism: Redux," English Department, University at Buffalo, SUNY (October 2012)
- Featured Lecturer: "Claude Romano's Evential Hermeneutics and Malory's Morte dArthur," English Department, University at Buffalo, SUNY (October 2012)
- Featured Speaker: "Pursuing a Fugitive, Vagabond, Promiscuous, Post/medieval University," DeRoy Lecture Series, Department of English, Wayne State University (November 2012)
- Featured Speaker: "Women Who Take the Ideal All the Way: Lars von Trier's Hagiography," Department of English, University of Sydney (November 2012)
- Featured Speaker: "Pursuing a Fugitive, Vagabond, Promiscuous Post/medieval Studies," Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Western Australia (November 2012)
- Featured Speaker: "Eros, Ethics, and Non-Faciality in Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line and Malory's Tale of Balyn and Balan," Collaboratory: "Faces of Emotion," University of Melbourne (December 2012)
- Featured Speaker: "Celestial Nourishment: Notes Toward a New Commentariat," Medieval Round Table Series: Ancient, Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Melbourne (December 2012)
- Panel Discussant: "Social Media and Scholarship: The State of Middle-States Publishing" (special session), MLA Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusetts (Jan. 2013)
- Featured Speaker: "Post/apocalytpic," Symposium: "Ecology of the Inhuman," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (April 2013)
- Plenary Speaker: "Freedom, Responsibility, and a Non-Sad Militancy" Building Illegitimate Public-ations," Plenary Session: "Publics and Publications for/in Cultural Studies," Cultural Studies Association Conference, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois (May 2013)
- Invited Speaker: Symposium: "Oceanic New York," St. John's University, New York (Sep. 2013)
- Invited Speaker: Workshop: "A Feeling for Things: Jane Bennett," Birbeck College, University of London (Oct. 2013)
Figure 5. Irene Jacob
in Krystof Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
CONFERENCE - CO-FOUNDER
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
- "Blue" (10th Biennial Conference of the Assoc. for the Study of Literature and the Environment [ASLE], Lawrence, KS, 2013)
- "Institutional Change/Paradigm Change," co-presented with Aranye Fradenburg, for "The Future We Want" session, organized by Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2013)
- "Not Disciplinarity, but Ecology," for "Literature and Other Disciplines: In Honor of Eugene Vance," Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature Division (MLA Annual Convention, Boston, MA, 2013)
- "These are the Tiny Engines that Power the Sails of Our Adventure: Friendship as a Way of Life (Again, and Again)," co-presented with Anna Klosowska (2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, Boston, MA, 2012)
- "Disintegrating Allure: A Call for a New Commentariat" (18th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Portland, OR, 2012)
- The Post/human Technics of Chivalric Techne in Chretien's Yvain" (International Medieval Society Symposium, Paris, France, 2012)
- "Post/apocalyptic" (47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2012)
- "Postal Networks, Affect, and Going Astray: Aesthetic Solidarity" (Network Archaeologies Conference, Oxford, OH, 2012)
- "Not Wanting to Escape Out of the Snare as a Sparrow: The Importance of Being Embodied in the Old English Seven Sleepers" (Biennial Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Madison, WI, 2011)
- "I Will Restore to You the Years that the Locust Hath Eaten: Spencer Reece's Addresses" (46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2011)
- "Cryptomnesia: A Response to Kathleen Biddick," with Anna Klosowska (Speculative Medievalisms: A Laboratory-Atelier, London, UK, 2011)
- "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" (17th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer
Society, Siena, Italy, 2010)
- "It's Never Enough, or, On Being Fucked Up" (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" (38th International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2003) |
|
"Last
Things and Lieux de Memoire: The Electronic Beowulf and The Last
Supper" (28th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval
Association, Tallahassee, FL, 2002) |
|
"The Time
of Beowulf is Infinite in Every Direction" (37th International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2002) |
| "Beowulf
and the Curators, Bound and Unbound" (27th 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)
CONFERENCE
- ORGANIZER
- 3rd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group: "on the beach: precariousness, risk, forms of life, affinity, and play at the edge of the world"
- Critical/Liberal/Arts 2 (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, September 2013)
- Critical/Liberal/Arts 1 (University of California, Irvine, April 2013)
- 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group: "cruising in the ruins: the question of disciplinarity in the post/medieval university" (Boston College, Northeastern University, M.I.T., and Tufts University, September 2012)
- Speculative Medievalisms 2: A Laboratory-Atelier (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, September 2011)
- Speculative Medievalisms 1: A Laboratory-Atelier (King's College London, January 2011)
- 1st Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group: "after the end: medieval studies, the humanities, and the post-catastrophe" (University of Texas at Austin, November 2010)
- 34th Annual
Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association: "Bodies,
Embodiments, Becomings" (Saint Louis University, October 2008)
CONFERENCE
(and other) SESSIONS - ORGANIZER
- "The World is But a Thurghfare: Transit, Transport, Scapes, and Flows" (19th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Rekjavik, Iceland, 2014)
- BABEL Working Group: I. "Blunder"; 2. "Plunder" (48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2013)
- postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies: "Thriving" (48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2013)
- "Going Postal: Networks, Affect, and Retro-Technologies" (2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, Boston, MA, 2012)
- punctum books + The Public School New York + Hollow Earth Society: "Para-Academic Publishing" (Brooklyn, NY, 2012)
- BABEL Working Group: I. "Fuck This: On Finally Letting Go"; 2. "Fuck Me: On Never Letting Go" (47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2012)
- postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies: "Burn After Reading: Miniature Manifestos for a Future Post/medieval Studies" (47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2012)
- "Visions of the Flesh" (Biennial Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Madison, WI, 2011)
- BABEL Working Group + postmedieval: "Wondrous Cosmology: Physics, Poetics, Biology" (Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Worlds, George Washington University, 2011)
- postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies: "The Transcultural Middle Ages" (46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2011)
- BABEL Working Group: 1. "Madness, Methodology, Medievalisms"; 2. "Queering the Muse: Medieval Poetry and Contemporary Poetics" (46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2011)
- postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies: 1. "The Post-Abysmal: Exegesis, Ethics, Saturation"; 11. "The Post-Abysmal: Optimism, Devotion, Radiance" (45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2010)
- BABEL Working Group: 1. "On the Question of Style"; 2. "On Collaboration" (45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2010)
- BABEL Working Group: "Knowing
and Unknowing Pleasures" (35th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval
Association, Nashville, TN, 2009)
- BABEL
Working Group: 1. "Are We Enjoying Ourselves? The Place of Pleasure
in Medieval Scholarship"; 2. "Are We Serious Enough Yet? The
Place of Ethics in Medieval Scholarship" (44th International Congress
on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2009)
- BABEL
Working Group: "The Turn to the Post/human: Desires, Bodies, Selves, Histories"
(Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia,
PA, 2008)
- BABEL
Working Group: 1. "Eros and Phenomenology" I & II; 2. "Bodies
In Between"; 3. "The Place of the Medieval in the Present"
(34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Saint Louis,
MO, 2008)
- BABEL
Working Group: 1. "Is There a Theory in the House of Old English Studies?";
2. "What Is the Place of the Present in Medieval Studies?" (43rd
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2008)
- BABEL
Working Group and Journal of Narrative Theory: "Theorizing Real Subtexts:
Downward Mobility and the Revisions of the Past" (49th Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, OH, 2007)
- BABEL
Working Group: 1. "Premodern to Modern Humanisms"; 2. "What Happened to
Theory in Medieval Studies?" (42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, MI, 2007)
- BABEL
Working Group and Journal of Narrative Theory: "High Stakes/Lowbrow:
Early Modern Texts and Medieval Fantasies in Pop Culture and Film" (48th
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Society, Chicago, IL, 2006)
- BABEL
Working Group: "Premodern to Modern Humanisms: Beginnings"; 2. "Premodern
to Modern Humanisms: Endings" (32nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern
Medieval Association, Oxford, MS, 2006)
- BABEL
Working Group: 1. "Medieval
to Modern Humanisms"; 2. "Is Beowulf Postmodern Yet?" I & II
(41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006)
- BABEL
Working Group: 1. "Medieval
Humanisms/Modern Humanisms"; 2. "Premodern
and Posthuman: Bodies, Borders, and Histories"; 3. "The Scandalous
and Amazonian Bodies of the Old English Wonders of the East" (31st
Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Daytona Beach,
FL, 2005)
- BABEL
Working Group: "Premodern and Posthuman: Bodies, Borders, and Histories"
(51st Annual Midwest Conference on British Studies, Notre Dame, IN, 2005)
- "Lions, Goats,
Wolves, and Receding Heir Lines: The Corporeal and Psychic Orders of the
Anxious, Violent, Outlaw Male" (2nd Annual College of Arts and Sciences
Colloquium, "Thinking About Masculinity," SIUE, 2005)
- Group for
Postfeminist Scholarship: "Remaking the Middle Ages on Reality Television"
(30th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Charleston,
SC, 2004)
- Group for
Postfeminist Scholarship: "Postfeminist Critique and the Premodern Text"
(39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2004)
Figure 6. Daniel
Auteil and Juliette Binoche in Michael Haneke's Caché (2005)
SELECTED COURSES
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
- English 111
Introduction to Literature: Beholding Violence in Drama and Film
- English 208 Topics in Early British Literature: Into the Wild
- English 214: Topics in World Literature, Ancient to Medieval: War, Violence, and Heroism
- English 404
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
- English 421
Poetry & Prose of the Medieval Period:
The Arthurian Remix
- English 441b
Contemporary Literature,
Fiction: Fantastic/Slipstream/Realism
- English 480 Major Authors: John Milton,
Neil Labute, and the Question of Sin (Fall 2009)
- English 480 Major Authors: Mise-en-Abyme in Boccaccio, Chaucer, Borges, Auster (Spring 2012)
- English 496 Scholarly and Critical Editing: Open-Access Publishing Lab
- English 497a
Bodies-Becoming & Identity
Machines: Post/human Literatures
- English 502 Modern Literary Theory: Objects, Actants, Networks (Spring 2011)
- English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literature:
Beowulf, Cultural Memory, & War (Spring
2004)
- English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literature:
Masculinity, Violence, & the Medieval
Romance (Spring 2005)
- English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literaure:
The Post/human Middle Ages (Spring 2007)
- English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literature:
Writing, Race,
and the English Nation (Fall 2007)
- English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Medieval Sex (Spring 2010)
- English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Medieval Supernatural (Fall 2012)
- Interdisciplinary
Studies 399 Lord of the Rings and
Medieval Heroic Poetry (Summer
2007 & Spring 2008; with Prof. Douglas Simms, Foreign Languages)
Coastal Carolina
University
- Honors 101 Honors
Seminar: East Meets West
- selected
by the National Collegiate Honors Council as one of the six most outstanding
interdisciplinary courses for an Honors Program in the United States;
published in NCHC’s journal, Honors in Practice, volume
7.2 (2006): 118-121
AWARDS,
HONORS, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- Lead Instructor (with Anna Klosowska), Advanced Graduate Seminar, "Asceticism, Eroticism, and the Premodern Foucault," Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois (Jan.-March 2013)
- Advisory Board, "Object Lessons" (book series directed by Ian Bogost and Christopher Schaberg), Continuum-Bloomsbury Publishers & The Atlantic
- Distinguished International Visiting Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellenc:, "History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800" (Nov. - Dec. 2012)
- $9,622 Seed Grant for Transitional and Exploratory Projects (Southern Illinois University, 2012-13)
- Editorial Board, "Speculative Realisms" (book series directed by Graham Harman), Edinburgh University Press
- $2,520 Seed Grant for Transitional and Exploratory Projects (Southern Illinois University, 2011-12)
- $4,852 Reassigned
Time for Research Award (Southern Illinois University, 2008-09)
- Section Editor,
Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Comentary (online journal on the philosophy and history of commentary,
glossing, and marginalia)
- Cliopatria Award for Best Group Weblog: In The Middle (2007)
- $8,000 Summer
Research Fellowship (Southern Illinois University, 2007)
- $4,000 Professional
Enhancement Grant (Coastal Carolina University, 2006)
- Course Syllabus, “Honors 101: East Meets West” (co-designed and co-taught with six other faculty in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Coastal Carolina University in Fall 2005), selected by the National Collegiate Honors Council as one of the six most outstanding interdisciplinary courses for an Honors Program in the United States (published in NCHC’s
journal, Honors in Practice 7.2 [2006]: 118-121)
- Ad hoc Reviewer (books): Columbia University Press, Continuum Books, West Virginia University Press
- Ad hoc Reviewer, PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association)
- Ad hoc Reviewer, Culture,
Theory and Critique
- Ad hoc Reviewer,
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- Ad hoc Reviewer, Modern
Philology
- Ad hoc Reviewer, Papers
on Language and Literature
- Ad hoc Reviewer
and
Special
Column Editor,
The Heroic Age
- Editorial
Board, Medieval Section,
Literature Compass
- $2,305 Funded University Research Grant (Southern Illinois University, 2005)
- Visiting Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge
University (N.E.H. Summer Institute for College Teachers, "Anglo-Saxon England," 2004)
- $6,000 Summer Research Fellowship (Southern
Illinois University, 2004)
- Nominee of the Univ. of Tennessee, Council of Graduate
Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation in the
Humanities Award (2003)
- Editorial
Board, The Year's Work in Old
English Studies (2001-08)
- Residency, Sewanee Writers'
Conference (July 1999)
- Chancellor's Citation for Extraordinary Professional Promise (U.T., 1996)
- Mildred Morris
Haines and William Elijah Morris Award in Classics (U.T., 1995-96)
- John C. Hodges Award for Exceptional Scholarship (U.T., August 1995)
- Fellow’s Residency, Virginia Center
for the Creative Arts (May 1995)
- The Classics Honor Society of Eta Sigma Phi (inducted April 1995)
- John C. Hodges Excellence in Teaching Award (U.T., August 1994)
- Graduate Fiction Award (U.T., May 1994 & May
1995)
- John C. Hodges
1st-Year Ph.D. Fellowship (U.T., 1993-94)
- The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (inducted 1992)
Figure 7. Irene Jacob and Philippe
Volter in Krystof Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
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