Erin Labbie, Associate Professor

labbie@bgnet.bgsu.edu

East Hall 420
419-372-0598

Degrees and Institutions:

Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Area: Literature

Courses Regularly Taught: British Literature Survey, Introduction to Theory, Seminars in
Medieval literature and studies, Topics in Theory

Special Topics Recently Taught: "Saints and Schizophrenia," "The Concept of Evil," "Chaucer" [Fall 06]

Research Interests: Medieval Studies, Middle English, Chaucer studies, Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Saxon studies, Old French, Hagiography, Translation studies, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Historiography, Marxism, Deconstruction, Feminism and Queer Theory, Post-colonial studies, Meta-criticism, Intellectual History, Disciplinarity

Recent Publications:

Lacan's Medievalism. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

"Lear to the Letter: Derrida Before Lacan, Poe Before Shakespeare," co-authored with Autumn Beechler (Undergraduate student). Accepted and forthcoming in Shakespeare Yearbook, Fall 2006/Winter 2007.

"Zizek Avec Lacan: Splitting the Dialectics of Desire," Slovene Studies, Volume 25, numbers 1-2, 2003 [published February 2005]: 23-46.

"Battle Rage and Civility in Beowulf", Co-authored with Tom Wymer. The Heroic Age.
Issue 7, Spring 2004, Fifth Anniversary Issue.

"Third Time, Third Being," A translation of Bernard Stielger's "Tiers-temps, tiers-étant,"
Forthcoming Rhizomes Issue 8, Spring 2005. (35 pages).