Recent Graduate Accomplishments in Old and Middle English

Recent Graduate Accomplishments

Publications

Rebecca A. Davis
“‘Fullynge’ Nature: Spiritual Charity and the Logic of Conversion in Piers Plowman,” Yearbook of Langland Studies, in press.

Hilary Fox
“‘Min herte is growen into ston’: Ethics and Activity in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis,” Comitatus 36 (2005): 15-40.

Paul J. Patterson
"Reforming Chaucer: Margins and Religion in an Apocryphal Canterbury Tale," Book History 8 (2005): 11-36.

Editor, “The Book and Religious Practice in Late Medieval England,” Special Issue of Religion and Literature, 37 no. 2 (2005). [Contributors: Mary C. Erler, Vincent Gillespie, Paul J. Patterson, Michael Sargent, Rosalynn Voaden, and Nicholas Watson]

Review of Constant J. Mews (ed.), Listen, Daughter: The Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages in Notes and Queries 52 (2005): 386-87.

Scott Thompson Smith
“Of Kings and Cattle Thieves: The Rhetorical Work of the Fonthill Letter,” JEGP, in press.

“Westseaxna Land: Tenth-Century Charters and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,” in Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, forthcoming from Brepols.

Miranda Wilcox (Medieval Institute)
“Alfred’s Epistemological Metaphors: eagan modes and scip modes,” Anglo-Saxon England 35, in press.

“Exilic Imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the Rings.” In Tolkien the Medievalist, edited by Jane Chance, 133-54. Routledge Studies in Medieval Religions and Culture 3. London: Routledge, 2003.

Fellowships and Grants

Matthew Brown
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Dissertation Fellowship, 2005--

Rebecca A. Davis
Schallek Dissertation Grant, Medieval Academy, 2004 ($2,000)

Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Dissertation Fellowship, 2002--

Paul J. Patterson
Lilly Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Seattle Pacific University 2005-2006 (declined)

Gilbert and Ursula Farfel Fellow of the Huntington Library, 2004-2005

Shallek Dissertation Award, Richard III Society of America and Medieval Academy of America, 2004-2005

Jonathan Secord
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Dissertation Fellowship, 2004--

Misty Schieberle
Helen Ann Mins Robbins Fellow, University of Rochester, 2006--

Miranda Wilcox
Summer Fellow, English Department, Brigham Young University, 2005

Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame, 2006-2007

Other Accomplishments

Rebecca A. Davis

  • Submissions editor for Hortulus, an international, online graduate journal of medieval studies. Hortulus publishes peer-reviewed articles by graduate students working in a variety of disciplines and sponsors special sessions at Kalamazoo and Leeds. Visitors to the website are welcome: www.hortulus.net.

Paul J. Patterson

  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Department of English & Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati (2005-2006)

Misty Schieberle

  • Managing Editor, Religion and Literature, 2004-2005
  • Member, Board of Director, Vagantes, 2005-2007
  • President, Graduate Student Union of Notre Dame, 2005-2006

Miranda Wilcox (Medieval Institute)

  • Conference Organizer of Vagantes  (held 3-5 March 2005 at Notre Dame)
  • Member, Board of Directors, Vagantes, 2003-2006