Date/Time
Date(s) - 1 Feb 2012
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location
Fordham University, Licoln Center Campus, Leon Lowenstein
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Second job talk for the assistant professor position in medieval English literature at Fordham
Building: Leon Lowenstein 309
Dr Ingrid Nelson will speak at on “Lyrical Tactics.”
Dr Nelson received a BA in Mathematics from William and Mary, a MA in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her PhD in English from Harvard University, where she completed a thesis on:”The Lyric in England, 1200-1400.” She is currently an assistant professor at Amherst College. Her publications include a forthcoming article, “The Performance of Power in Medieval English Households: The Case of the Harrowing of Hell” In JPEG, and she is working on a book project, Tactical Vernaculars, that “re-maps” literary genres of later medieval England in their social and performance contexts by examining, for example, Chaucer’s use of the sermon in The Canterbury Tales, or a French grammar’s use of Middle English translations to describe the social landscape of a bourgeois household. In addition to giving a variety of talks at scholarly conferences, she has also served as designer and developer of the “Middle English Teaching Resources Online (METRO)” website, 2007-2009.