CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of English
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Madison
600 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706 USA
| Office Telephone: | (608) 262-7836 |
| Office Fax: | (608) 263-3709 |
| Active email: | slreames@wisc.edu |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~hagio |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Chaucer and his contemporaries; late-medieval religious literature; retellings of saints' legends in Latin and Middle English; medieval manuscripts, esp. those written or used in England; liturgical lessons and offices of saints.
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Book:
Middle English Legends of Women Saints [annotated collection of texts for TEAMS Middle English Texts series, edited with the assistance of Martha G. Blalock and Wendy R. Larson], Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003.
Articles:
"Liturgical Offices for the Cult of Thomas Becket" [annotated English translations of the Sarum offices for the Feastday and Translation of Thomas Becket], in _Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology_, ed. Thomas Head (New York: Garland, 2000), 561-93.
"The Office for St. Cecilia," in _The Liturgy of the Medieval Church_, ed. Thomas J. Heffernan and E. Ann Matter (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2001), 245-70.
"The Remaking of a Saint: Stephen Langton and the Liturgical Office for Becket's Translation," _Hagiographica_ 7 (2000; published 2001), 17-33.
"The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale," in _Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales_, ed. Robert M. Correale and Mary Hamel, vol. 1 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2002), 491-527.
"The Legend of Katherine of Alexandria in English Breviaries," in _St. Katherine of Alexandria: Texts and Contexts in Medieval Europe_, ed. Jacqueline Jenkins and Katherine J. Lewis (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003), 201-20.
"Origins and Affiliations of the Pre-Sarum Office for Anne in the Stowe Breviary," in a Festschrift in honor of Andrew Hughes, ed. John Haines, forthcoming from Ashgate, 2004.
"Reconstructing a Thirteenth-Century Office for the Translation of Thomas Becket" (article and edition), forthcoming in _Speculum_, January 2005.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Much of my research relates at least indirectly to this theme, since I study Middle English texts that were adapted from Latin originals (and often changed drastically in the process), as well as Latin texts that were abbreviated (and often simplified) for the use of late-medieval English clergy.
History of the Medieval Book:
I am working on a descriptive catalog of Sarum breviaries and office lectionaries that includes most of the surviving manuscripts and a sample of the early printed editions, emphasizing the manuscripts' hagiographical contents.
My graduate students learn paleography, and their work often includes manuscripts as well.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
James Riddle, York plays in the context of the surviving civic documents
Margaret Quintanar, The issue of authority in medieval women's writings, including writings dictated to male scribes
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Beginning Old English
Middle English dialects and manuscripts
Late-medieval religious literature
Medieval drama in England (also Chaucer, occasionally)
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