Saturday, November 12, 2005

An Interdisciplinary Conference Sponsored by the Departments of English and Foreign Languages

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FEATURED SPEAKERS

Caroline W. Bynum is professor of European Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She was a MacArthur Fellow from 1986-1991 and holds honorary degrees from nine American universities. She is the author of numerous articles and recipient of many distinguished prizes. Her book Holy Feast and Holy Fast received the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington and the Philip Schaff prize of the American Society of Church History. Her book Fragmentation and Redemption received the Trilling Prize for the Best Book by a Columbia Faculty Member and the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Analytical-Descriptive Category from the American Academy of Religion. Her book The Resurrection of the Body received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of Phi Beta Kappa given for the best book of the year on “the intellectual and cultural condition of man,” and the Jacques Barzun Prize of the American Philosophical Society for the best work in cultural history. S Her most recent book is Metamorphosis and Identity.

Jeffrey Hamburger teaches in the Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University. His research focuses on medieval manuscript illumination, the art of female monasticism, and the history of attitudes towards images. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the Charles Rufus Morey Prize of the College Art Association, and the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy of America. His most recent exhibition was Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenkloestern. The Mind’s Eye: Art and Theological Argument in the Middle Ages, co-edited with Anne-Marie Bouche, is in press.

Mary Carpenter Erler teaches medieval drama and literature at Fordham University. She is the author of Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England. She co-edited Women and Power in the Middle Ages. She has also authored numerous articles on poetry and culture in the Middle Ages.

Sarah McNamer is Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University. She is currently writing a book on the construction and performance of compassion in and through late-medieval meditations on the Passion. Current work also includes a chapter on “Emotion” for the forthcoming 21st-Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English (Oxford UP) and an edition and translation of an early Italian version of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditations on the Life of Christ. She has published a critical edition of the Middle English and Latin versions of the Revelations of Elizabeth of Hungary and articles on Marian laments, the pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditations, and the Findern lyrics.

Alastair Minnis, currently a Humanities Council Stewart Fellow at Princeton University, is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the author of Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages; The Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Chaucer’s Shorter Poems; and Magister Amoris: The ‘Roman de la Rose’ and Vernacular Hermeneutics. His latest publication is The Cambridge Historyof Literary Criticism, vol. 2: The Middle Ages, which he co-edited with Ian Johnson.

Catherine M. Mooney teaches graduate courses in Christian history and spirituality at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass. Her research and teaching interests include the history of spirituality, religious life, saints and canonization, and women’s spirituality. Her publications include Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and their Interpreters amd Philippine Duchesne: A Woman with the Poor.