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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," "Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis," "Chaucer," "Theories of the Gaze"
[Spring 08]
Research Interests: Medieval Studies, Middle English, Chaucer, 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," forthcoming in Shakespeare Yearbook.
Review essay of Slavoj Zizek, *The Parallax View*. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 434 pp. Rhizomes, Issue 10, Fall 2006.
"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.
Work in Progress
“Medieval Studies” an essay for A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory, Ed. Michael Payne. 2nd edition. London and New York: Blackwell Press, 2009.
“The Long Drive of Courtly Love: The Distance/Time Ratio of Amor de Longh.” For Queer Times, Queer Becomings, eds. E. L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen.
“Historical Materialism and the Automaton in Volpone.” For Mummy, Possessed: Automata and Enchantment in English Renaissance Literature, ed. Wendy Hyman.
“We Have Never Been Schreber,” co-authored with Michael Uebel. For The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages, eds. Andrew Cole and D. Vance Smith. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008.
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