CONTACT INFORMATION:
Associate Professor
Department of English and Comparative Literature
Penn State University
New Kensington Campus - 3550 Seventh Street Road,
Upper Burrell, PA 15068 USA
| Office Telephone: | (724) 334-6756 |
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| Active email: | jek4@psu.edu |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.psu.edu/dept/medieval/ |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
medieval manuscripts
pilgrimage literature
medieval Latin literature
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
2003 "Hieronymus Munzer y su Pseudo-Turpin," in Proceedings of the Pseudo-Turpin Conference, Santiago da Compostela, Spain: Xunta de Galicia. (I wrote this in English)
2002 Review article on Ruth J. Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts. Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series no. 3. Anglo Norman Text Society: London, 1999; Journal of the Early Book Society, V (2002), 4 pp.
2001 "Magna Tabula: The Glastonbury Tablets, Parts 1 and 2", repr. in James Carley, ed. Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition,Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2001, pp. 435-567; reprinted 2002 in ed. James Carley, ed. Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition, Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 435-567.
"Rare Books and Manuscripts Division Special Collections Library Penn State University Libraries" (with Sandra Stelts), Journal of the Early Book Society V pp. 315-16. "Manuscripts of the Liturgy" (with E. Ann Matter), in Thomas Herffernan and E. ann Matter, eds., The Liturgy of the Medieval Church, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Press, 2001, pp. 433-72. I also took many of the photographs of manuscripts for the article.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Anyone who works with manuscripts works with multilingual assemblages of texts, and sometimes with multilingual texts.
History of the Medieval Book:
I have taught palaeography and the history of the book, and would love to do so again.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Chronicles in roll format, deriving from Peter of Poitiers' Genealogy of Christ.
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions, and in conducting a videoconferencing seminar or course.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
No current regular graduate teaching--I miss it and would like to do more.
MEDIEVAL COURSES WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED:
Courses using medieval manuscripts.
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