SMFS DISSERTATIONS LIST (SUMMER 2006)

RECENTLY COMPLETED (since 2003):

Katharina Altpeter-JonesGerman Studies; Duke UniversityTrafficking in Goods and Women: Love and Economics in Konrad Fleck’s Flore und BlanscheflurJuly 2003

Beth Allison BarrHistory; University of North Carolina at Chapel HillGendered Lessons: The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval EnglandDecember 2003

Rosa Alvarez PerezFrench; The City University of New York Martyrs and Money Lenders: Retrieving the Memory of Jewish Women in Medieval Northern FranceOctober 2005

Nancy Elizabeth BroadwellEnglish; University of PennsylvaniaWomen in Exile in Medieval Hagiography and RomanceDecember 2003

Christine F. CooperMedieval Studies; University of ConnecticutMirabile Translatu: Translating Women and the Miraculous in the Later Middle AgesMay 2004

Kimm CurranMedieval and Scottish History; University of GlasgowReligious Women and their Communities in Late Medieval ScotlandMarch 2006

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SMFS DISSERTATIONS LIST (SUMMER 2006)

RECENTLY COMPLETED (since 2003):

Katharina Altpeter-JonesGerman Studies; Duke UniversityTrafficking in Goods and Women: Love and Economics in Konrad Fleck’s Flore und BlanscheflurJuly 2003

Beth Allison BarrHistory; University of North Carolina at Chapel HillGendered Lessons: The Pastoral Care of Women in Late Medieval EnglandDecember 2003

Rosa Alvarez PerezFrench; The City University of New York Martyrs and Money Lenders: Retrieving the Memory of Jewish Women in Medieval Northern FranceOctober 2005

Nancy Elizabeth BroadwellEnglish; University of PennsylvaniaWomen in Exile in Medieval Hagiography and RomanceDecember 2003

Christine F. CooperMedieval Studies; University of ConnecticutMirabile Translatu: Translating Women and the Miraculous in the Later Middle AgesMay 2004

Kimm CurranMedieval and Scottish History; University of GlasgowReligious Women and their Communities in Late Medieval ScotlandMarch 2006

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Susan J. DudashFrench; University of PittsburghGiving Voice to the People: Rhetoric, History, and Literary Representations of Social Conflict in the Late Middle AgesApril 2003

Elsa FilosaItalian; University of North Carolina at Chapel HillL’arte del ritratto femminile in Boccaccio: Studi sulla narrativa del De mulieribus clarisDecember 2005

Tara FosterFrench; Rutgers University‘Unques puis que nus porta mere, /n’oimes femme si parler’: Exemplary Feminine Discourse in Old French Verse HagiographyDecember 2004

Noreen GiffneyMedieval History; University College Dublin‘The Age is Drowned in Blood’: Reading Anti-Mongol Propaganda, 1236-1255November 2004

Eileen McKiernan GonzalezArt History; University of Texas, AustinMonastery and Monarchy: The Foundation and Patronage of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas and Santa María la Real de SigenaMay 2005

Catherine GunnEnglish; Southampton UniversityThe Rhetoric of Spirituality in Ancrene WisseDecember 2003

Zennia D. HancockSpanish and Portuguese; University of Maryland at College ParkThe Spanish Shahrazãd and Her Entourage: The Powers of Storytelling Women in Libro de los engaños de las mujeresNovember 2004

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Susan J. DudashFrench; University of PittsburghGiving Voice to the People: Rhetoric, History, and Literary Representations of Social Conflict in the Late Middle AgesApril 2003

Elsa FilosaItalian; University of North Carolina at Chapel HillL’arte del ritratto femminile in Boccaccio: Studi sulla narrativa del De mulieribus clarisDecember 2005

Tara FosterFrench; Rutgers University‘Unques puis que nus porta mere, /n’oimes femme si parler’: Exemplary Feminine Discourse in Old French Verse HagiographyDecember 2004

Noreen GiffneyMedieval History; University College Dublin‘The Age is Drowned in Blood’: Reading Anti-Mongol Propaganda, 1236-1255November 2004

Eileen McKiernan GonzalezArt History; University of Texas, AustinMonastery and Monarchy: The Foundation and Patronage of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas and Santa María la Real de SigenaMay 2005

Catherine GunnEnglish; Southampton UniversityThe Rhetoric of Spirituality in Ancrene WisseDecember 2003

Zennia D. HancockSpanish and Portuguese; University of Maryland at College ParkThe Spanish Shahrazãd and Her Entourage: The Powers of Storytelling Women in Libro de los engaños de las mujeresNovember 2004

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Tracy Chapman HamiltonArt History; University of Texas, AustinPleasure, Politics, and Piety: The Artistic Patronage of Marie de BrabantDecember 2004

Dana Wessell LightfootHistory; University of TorontoNegotiating Agency: Labouring-Status Wives and their Dowries in Early Fifteenth-Century ValenciaSeptember 2005

Sandra LowerreEnglish Studies; Ruhr-University Bochum, GermanyThe Cross-Dressing Female Saints in Wynkyn de Worde’s 1495 Edition of the Vitas PatrumJuly 2005

Elizabeth (Lisa) Moore HuntArt History; University of Missouri-ColumbiaIlluminating the Borders of Northern French and Flemish Manuscripts, ca. 1270-1310May 2004

Evelyn MeyerGermanic Medieval Studies; University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesDisputed Gender Categories in the Yvain Stories: Manuscripts, Authors, EditorsJune 2003

Alison MoreTheology and Religious Studies; University of BristolMilites Christi in hortis liliorum Domini? Hagiographic Constructions of Masculinity and Holiness in Thirteenth-Century LiègeJanuary 2005

Janice Racine NorrisHistory; Binghamton UniversityAnglo-Saxon Religious Women Who Went to the Continent: A Group StudyMay 2003

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Tracy Chapman HamiltonArt History; University of Texas, AustinPleasure, Politics, and Piety: The Artistic Patronage of Marie de BrabantDecember 2004

Dana Wessell LightfootHistory; University of TorontoNegotiating Agency: Labouring-Status Wives and their Dowries in Early Fifteenth-Century ValenciaSeptember 2005

Sandra LowerreEnglish Studies; Ruhr-University Bochum, GermanyThe Cross-Dressing Female Saints in Wynkyn de Worde’s 1495 Edition of the Vitas PatrumJuly 2005

Elizabeth (Lisa) Moore HuntArt History; University of Missouri-ColumbiaIlluminating the Borders of Northern French and Flemish Manuscripts, ca. 1270-1310May 2004

Evelyn MeyerGermanic Medieval Studies; University of Minnesota, Twin CitiesDisputed Gender Categories in the Yvain Stories: Manuscripts, Authors, EditorsJune 2003

Alison MoreTheology and Religious Studies; University of BristolMilites Christi in hortis liliorum Domini? Hagiographic Constructions of Masculinity and Holiness in Thirteenth-Century LiègeJanuary 2005

Janice Racine NorrisHistory; Binghamton UniversityAnglo-Saxon Religious Women Who Went to the Continent: A Group StudyMay 2003

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Anna RussakoffArt History; New York UniversityImaging the Miraculous: Les Miracles de Notre Dame, Paris, BnF, n.acq.fr. 24541October 2005

Nhora Lucía SerranoMedieval and Renaissance Studies; University of Wisconsin-MadisonThe Role of the Female Guide in Medieval Portraits of Monarchy: A Study of Medieval Historiography, Translatio Studii and IlluminationsMay 2006

Sumie SongGerman Studies; Duke UniversityPlaces of Interest: The Rhetoric of Space in High-Medieval Courtly Romance in Late-Medieval Love Discourse April 2004

Eleonora StoppinoItalian Studies and Medieval Studies; University of California, BerkeleyAriosto medievale: Textual and Sexual Genealogies in Orlando furiosoAugust 2003

Sandra Lindemann SummersGerman Studies; Duke UniversityFrouwen Schouwen: The Female Gaze in Middle High German TextsApril 2004

John William SuttonEnglish; University of RochesterPerforming Death and Masculinity in Old and Middle English LiteratureDecember 2005

Victoria SweetAnthropology, History, & Social Medicine; University of California San FranciscoBody as Plant, Doctor as Gardener: Premodern Medicine in Hildegard of Bingen’s Causes and CuresMarch 2003

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Anna RussakoffArt History; New York UniversityImaging the Miraculous: Les Miracles de Notre Dame, Paris, BnF, n.acq.fr. 24541October 2005

Nhora Lucía SerranoMedieval and Renaissance Studies; University of Wisconsin-MadisonThe Role of the Female Guide in Medieval Portraits of Monarchy: A Study of Medieval Historiography, Translatio Studii and IlluminationsMay 2006

Sumie SongGerman Studies; Duke UniversityPlaces of Interest: The Rhetoric of Space in High-Medieval Courtly Romance in Late-Medieval Love Discourse April 2004

Eleonora StoppinoItalian Studies and Medieval Studies; University of California, BerkeleyAriosto medievale: Textual and Sexual Genealogies in Orlando furiosoAugust 2003

Sandra Lindemann SummersGerman Studies; Duke UniversityFrouwen Schouwen: The Female Gaze in Middle High German TextsApril 2004

John William SuttonEnglish; University of RochesterPerforming Death and Masculinity in Old and Middle English LiteratureDecember 2005

Victoria SweetAnthropology, History, & Social Medicine; University of California San FranciscoBody as Plant, Doctor as Gardener: Premodern Medicine in Hildegard of Bingen’s Causes and CuresMarch 2003

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Jennifer D. ThibodeauxHistory; University of KansasMan of the Church, or Man of the Village?: Reform and the Conflict of Masculinities among Priests in the Thirteenth-Century Diocese of RouenMay 2004

Stephen M. WagnerArt History; University of DelawareSilken Parchments: Design, Context, Patronage and Function of Textile-Inspired Pages in Ottonian and Salian ManuscriptsMay 2004

Catherine L. WhiteRomance Languages and Literatures; University of CincinnatiThe Influence of Religious Faith on Christine de Pizan’s Defense of WomenJune 2003

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Jennifer D. ThibodeauxHistory; University of KansasMan of the Church, or Man of the Village?: Reform and the Conflict of Masculinities among Priests in the Thirteenth-Century Diocese of RouenMay 2004

Stephen M. WagnerArt History; University of DelawareSilken Parchments: Design, Context, Patronage and Function of Textile-Inspired Pages in Ottonian and Salian ManuscriptsMay 2004

Catherine L. WhiteRomance Languages and Literatures; University of CincinnatiThe Influence of Religious Faith on Christine de Pizan’s Defense of WomenJune 2003

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DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS: d

Jessica BarrComparative Literature; Brown UniversityThe Limits of Revelation: Visionary Knowing and the Medieval Dream Vision Narrative

Sandra BialystokComparative Literature; University of TorontoThe Cuckold, His Wife and Her Lover: A Study of Infidelity in the Decameron, the Libro de buen amor and the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles

Kristin Bovaird-AbboEnglish; University of KansasChaucer’s Arthuriana

Caroline DunnHistory; Fordham UniversityDamsels in Distress or Partners in Crime? The Abduction of Women in Medieval England

Suzanne EdwardsEnglish; University of ChicagoBeyond Raptus: Pedagogies and Fantasies of Sexual Violence in Late-Medieval England

Hope JohnstonEnglish; Cambridge UniversityA Critical Edition of The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes

Andrea Fitzgerald JonesEnglish; University of California, Los AngelesOutlaw Masculinity and Eccentric Nationality in Popular English Literature, 1400-1601

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DISSERTATIONS IN PROGRESS: d

Jessica BarrComparative Literature; Brown UniversityThe Limits of Revelation: Visionary Knowing and the Medieval Dream Vision Narrative

Sandra BialystokComparative Literature; University of TorontoThe Cuckold, His Wife and Her Lover: A Study of Infidelity in the Decameron, the Libro de buen amor and the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles

Kristin Bovaird-AbboEnglish; University of KansasChaucer’s Arthuriana

Caroline DunnHistory; Fordham UniversityDamsels in Distress or Partners in Crime? The Abduction of Women in Medieval England

Suzanne EdwardsEnglish; University of ChicagoBeyond Raptus: Pedagogies and Fantasies of Sexual Violence in Late-Medieval England

Hope JohnstonEnglish; Cambridge UniversityA Critical Edition of The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes

Andrea Fitzgerald JonesEnglish; University of California, Los AngelesOutlaw Masculinity and Eccentric Nationality in Popular English Literature, 1400-1601

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Christian KnudsenCentre for Medieval Studies; University of TorontoDe Lapsu Carnis: The Illicit Relationships of Late Medieval English Nuns

Sarah RandlesArt History; Australian National UniversityThe Tristan and Isolde Legend in Medieval Narrative Embroidery

Misty SchieberleEnglish; University of Notre DameWomen and Authority: Feminized Counsel and Advice to Princes in Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Christine de Pizan

Katrin E. SjursenHistory; University of California, Santa Barbara“The heart of a man and of a lion”: Northern French Noblewomen as Medieval Military Commanders

Sarah SheehanCentre for Medieval Studies; University of TorontoGender and Sexuality in Early Irish Saga

Olga TrokhimenkoGerman Studies; Duke UniversityKeeping up Appearances: Women’s Laughter and the Performance of Virtue in Medieval German Discourse

Susan ValentineHistory; New York University“Because she hath loved much”: Mary Magdalene and Religious Reform, 1000-1215

dEditor’s Note: This list includes only newly registered dissertations in progress. For previusly listed items, see MFF Issue 39 (Summer 2005).

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Christian KnudsenCentre for Medieval Studies; University of TorontoDe Lapsu Carnis: The Illicit Relationships of Late Medieval English Nuns

Sarah RandlesArt History; Australian National UniversityThe Tristan and Isolde Legend in Medieval Narrative Embroidery

Misty SchieberleEnglish; University of Notre DameWomen and Authority: Feminized Counsel and Advice to Princes in Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Christine de Pizan

Katrin E. SjursenHistory; University of California, Santa Barbara“The heart of a man and of a lion”: Northern French Noblewomen as Medieval Military Commanders

Sarah SheehanCentre for Medieval Studies; University of TorontoGender and Sexuality in Early Irish Saga

Olga TrokhimenkoGerman Studies; Duke UniversityKeeping up Appearances: Women’s Laughter and the Performance of Virtue in Medieval German Discourse

Susan ValentineHistory; New York University“Because she hath loved much”: Mary Magdalene and Religious Reform, 1000-1215

dEditor’s Note: This list includes only newly registered dissertations in progress. For previusly listed items, see MFF Issue 39 (Summer 2005).

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