Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
Notre Dame Professor of English
Specialty
Middle English literature and related areas of medieval studies
Degrees
B.A., B.Ed., York University, Toronto; D. Phil., University of York, U.K.
Profile
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton specializes in Middle English literature and related areas of Medieval Studies. She has written several books and articles on medieval literary writers, especially religious visionaries, and their reception, including Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman and Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England. Her edited collections include Written Work: Langland, Labour and Authorship with Steven Justice; Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman with Denise Despres; and Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages with Linda Olson.
Recent Publications
Books Under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, forthcoming.
“When Women Preached: An Introduction to Female Homiletic, Sacramental, and Liturgical Roles in the Later Middle Ages.” In Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages, edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Linda Olson, 31-55. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
“Eciam Lollardi: Some Further Thoughts on Fiona Somerset’s “Eciam Mulier: Women in Lollardy and the Problem of Sources.” In Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages, 261-78.
"The English Illustrated Book and Medieval Ways of Reading: an Archaeology of Images at Work." In Medieval Icons, Images and English Literary Texts: A Study of Illustrated Works from the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer, by Maidie Hilmo, xix-xxv. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2004.
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn and Denise Despres, eds. Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1999.
Recent Honors and Awards
SSHRC General Research Grants, annually 1986 through 2003
John Nicholas Brown Prize, 1994
University of Victoria Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1996
Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Jan. - Aug. 1996
Visiting Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Sept. - Dec. 1998, 1999-2000
Contact Information
331 Decio Faculty Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-7372
Kathryn.Kerby-Fulton.1@nd.edu