Katherine Zieman
Assistant Professor
Specialty: Late medieval literature and culture
Degrees: B.A., B.Mus., Oberlin College; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Katherine Zieman specializes in late medieval English literature and culture with particular interests in liturgical practices, definitions of literacy, and the construction of "literary" culture. She has published articles on Chaucer and the liturgical practices of women religious. Her book, Singing the New Song: Literacy, Liturgy, and Literature in Late Medieval England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), explores the intersections of these issues in the late fourteenth century. She has explored the writings of Chaucer and the liturgical culture of women religious in various published articles, has recently edited the Middle English Gast of Gy for the Corpus Christianorum series, and is currently working on a book project that explores fifteenth-century manuscripts and readers of the Yorkshire mystic, Richard Rolle.
Recent and Forthcoming Publications
- Singing the New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
- “Playing Doctor: St. Birgitta, Ritual Reading, and Ecclesiastical Authority.” In Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages,edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Linda Olson, 307-34. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005.
- “The Perils of Canor: Mystical Authority, Alliteration, and Extragrammatical Meaning in Rolle, the Cloud-author, and Hilton.” Yearbook of Langland Studies 22 (2008): 133-66.
- “The Auctor Speaks: Ricardian Poetics and the Framing of The Canterbury Tales.” In Answerable Style: Form and History in Medieval English Literature. Essays in Honor of Anne Middleton. Ed. Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway (Forthcoming from Ohio State UP).
Recent Awards and Honors
- Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Fall 2005 (Visitorship, Spring 2006)
- ACLS Fellowship, 2010-2011
- National Humanities Center Fellow, 2010-2011
Contact Information
222 Decio Faculty Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-6330
Katherine.Zieman.1@nd.edu
Postal address
Department of English
356 O’Shaughnessy
Notre Dame, IN 46556
