Mary Agnes Edsall
Assistant Professor
Fall 2008
- Stoic Heroes and Disenchanted Knights (ENG 015)
- Signs and Symbols in Narrative Fiction (ENG 103)
- Intermediate Independent Study in English (ENG 291)
| Phone | (207) 725-3058 |
| Title | Assistant Professor |
| Department | ENGLISH |
| Work Location | 204 Massachusetts Hall |
| medsall@bowdoin.edu |
Education: Ph.D. Columbia University
Teaching Interests: Chaucer; Trilingual England; Medieval Drama; Monastic and Anchoritic Literature and Culture; Women and Literature in the Middle Ages; Fabliaux and Trickster Tales; Modern Medievalisms; Tolkien.
Information on Courses Offered
Online Project: Annotated Web Resources for Medieval Studies
Recent Fellowships:
Spring-Fall 2007
Mellon CBB Collaborative Grant with Professor Sylvia Federico (English) Bates to collaborate on teaching “Tolkien’s Middle Ages.”
June-August 2006
NEH Summer Seminar Participant: “Holy Men and Holy Women of Anglo-Saxon England,” Cambridge University.
June 2004
Huntington Library, Msgr. Francis J. Weber Research Fellowship in Roman Catholic History.
Guest Lectures:
“The Cook’s Tale, the Successful Fragment, and the Ethics of Reading in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.” [Presented at the Maine Humanities Council Winter Weekend], March 9-10, 2007.
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"The York Crucifixion Play: A Brief Background to English Cycle Drama and the York Plays as a Meditation on Labor." [Presented at Villanova University on November 7, 2003 to the First-Year Learning Community Course, From Corpus Christi to Corporation]
Publications:
"Dead Dogs and Punished Provosts: History in the Fabliau Du provost a l'aumuche and Fabliau History in the Murder of Charles the Good." Co-authored with Lisa H. Cooper, University of Wisconsin-Madison. [Forthcoming in Galbert of Bruges and Flemish Historiography, ed. Alan V. Murray and Jeff Rider. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, ***.]
Review of Robert McMahon, Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent: Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, and Dante (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2006), The Medieval Review 2007. TMR ID: 07.10.21.
Review of Nicholas Love: The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ: A Reading Text, Ed. Michael G. Sargent (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2004), The Medieval Review 2005. TMR ID: 05.02.13.
Review of A Companion to Ancrene Wisse, Ed. Yoko Wada (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003), The Medieval Review 2004. TMR ID: 04.12.19.
“ ‘Se þonne þisne wealsteal wise geþohte’: An Augustinian Reading of the Early English Meditation The Wanderer.” Augustine and Literature. ed. Jack Doody, Kim Paffenroth, and Robert P. Kennedy. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, January 2006. 37-62.
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" 'True Anchoresses Are Called Birds': Asceticism as Ascent and the Purgative Mysticism of the Ancrene Wisse." Viator 34 (2003): 156-186.
"Like Wise Master Builders: Jean Gerson's Ecclesiology, Lectio Divina, and Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames." Medievalia et Humanistica, New Series 27 (2000): 33-56.
"Wine." in Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs. Eds. Carl Lindahl, John Lindow, John McNamara. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
Recent Conference Presentations:
“The Arma Christi before the Arma Christi”
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, May 2007.
"Allegories to Live By: Hugh of Fouilloy's Treatises for Novice Formation and their Monastic and Lay Audiences" International Medieval Congress. Leeds, July 2005.
"Cistercian Interest in the Works of Hugh of Fouilloy: Huntington Museum MS. 627"
Cistercian Studies Conference. Kalamazoo, May 2005.
" 'This One Book Is Divided into Eight Smaller Books': Ancrene Wisse and Miscellanies Containing Hugh of Fouilloy's Works for Novices"
39th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, May 2004
"The Double Compunctions of Fear and Love and the Discourse of Wounding in Ancrene Wisse."
38th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, May 2003.
"'De put aire": Urban Fabliaux and Galbert of Bruges' Historical Narrative."
Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy. New York, April 2002.
"Dead Dogs and Punished Provosts: History in the Fabliau Du provost a l'aumuche and Fabliau History in the Murder of Charles the Good."
Co-authored and presented with Lisa H. Cooper, Stanford University.
International Medieval Congress. Leeds, July 2001.