EILEEN A. JOY

http://www.siue.edu/~ejoy

Curriculum Vitae

Figure 1. Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Luc Bory in Louis Malle's The Lovers (1958)

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in English (University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 2001)
• M.F.A. in Creative Writing: Fiction (Virginia Commonwealth University, 1992)
• B.A. in English (Virginia Commonwealth University, 1984)

DISSERTATION

Beowulf and the Floating Wreck of History

PARA-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

• Lead Ingenitor, The BABEL Working Group (January 2004 - present)
• Director, punctum books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion (April 2011 - present)

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

• Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (August 2009 - August 2013)
• Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University (August 2006 - July 2009)
  • Director of Graduate Studies (May 2007 - August 2009)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University (August 2005 - August 2006)
• Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (August 2003 - July 2005)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Asheville (July 2002 - July 2003)
• Assistant Professor, Francis Marion University (August 2000 - July 2002)

SCHOLARLY COLLECTIVE (Co-Founder and Lead Ingenitor)

• The BABEL Working Group

• BABEL Rabble (Tumblr)

Figure 2. Jeanne Moreau as Marguerite Duras in Cet amour-là (2001)

PUBLICATIONS - SCHOLARLY

Books, Journal Volumes, and Essay Clusters

• Speculative Medievalisms: Discography, ed. The Petropunk Collective: Eileen Joy, Anna Klosowska, Nicola Masciandaro, and Michael O'Rourke (punctum books, Jan. 2013)
• Dark Chaucer: An Assortment, ed. Myra Seaman, Eileen Joy, and Nicola Masciandaro (punctum books, Dec. 2012)
• The State(s) of Early English Studies, ed. Eileen Joy (shared essay cluster), postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 1.3 (Autumn 2010) and The Heroic Age 14 (Nov. 2010)
• When Did We Become Post/human?, ed. Eileen Joy and Craig Dionne, special double-issue, postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 1.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2010)
• Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages, ed. Eileen Joy, Myra Seaman, Kimberly Bell, and Mary Ramsey (Palgrave Macmillan Press, New Middle Ages series, Dec. 2007)
• Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project, ed. Eileen Joy and Christine Neufeld, special issue, Journal of Narrative Theory 37.2 (Summer 2007)
• The Postmodern Beowulf: A Critical Casebook, ed. Eileen Joy and Mary Ramsey (West Virginia University Press, Jan. 2007)

Books & Journal Volumes in Progress:

• Inhuman Actors: Tracing the Lives of Objects in Medieval Literature (monograph, co-authored with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen)
• Fragments Toward a History of a Vanishing Humanism, ed. Eileen A. Joy and Myra J. Seaman (volume of essays; under review at Ohio State University Press)
• On Style, ed. Anne Clark Bartlett and Eileen A. Joy (volume of essays; for punctum books)
• Burn After Reading: Tiny Manifestos for a Future Post/medieval Studies + The Future We Want (double tête-bêche volume), ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Eileen Joy, and Myra Seaman (volume of essays; for punctum books)

Full-length Articles & Book Chapters:

• "Weird Reading," Speculations IV (Spring 2013)
• "Blue" (book chapter), in Prismatic Ecologies: Ecotheory Beyond Green, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming in 2013
• "Like Two Autistic Moonbeams Entering the Windows of My Asylum: Chaucer's Griselda and von Trier's Bess McNeill" (essay), in New Critical Modes, ed. Jeffrey J. Cohen and Cary Howie, special issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 2.3 (Fall 2011)
• "All That Remains Unnoticed I Adore: Spencer Reece's Addresses" (essay), in On The Love of Commentary, ed. Nicola Masciandaro and Scott Wilson, special issue of Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary 5 (Fall 2011)
• "You Are Here: A Manifesto" (book chapter), in Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: Ethics and Objects, ed. Jeffrey J. Cohen; punctum books, May 2012
• "The Seven Sleepers, Eros, and the Unincorporable Infinite of the Human Person" (article), in Old English Newsletter, Subsidia Series, vol. 35: Anonymous Interpolations in Ælfric's Lives of Saints, ed. Robin Norris; Medieval Institute Publications, Aug. 2011
• "In His Eyes Stood a Light, Not Beautiful: Levinas, Hospitality, Beowulf" (book chapter), in Levinas and Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts, ed. Ann Astell and Justin Jackson; Duquesne University Press, April 2009
• "The Signs and Location of a Flight (or Return?) of Time: The Old English Wonders of the East and the Gujarat Massacre" (book chapter), in Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; Palgrave Macmillan, New Middle Ages series, Aug. 2008)
• "Good-bye to All That: The State of My Own Personal Field of Schizoid Anglo-Saxon Studies" (article), The Heroic Age 11 (May 2008)
• "A Confession of Faith: Notes Toward a New Humanism" (article, co-authored with Christine Neufeld), in Premodern to Modern Humanisms: The BABEL Project; see above under "Books"
• "Through a Glass, Darkly: Medieval Cultural Studies at the End of History" (book Introduction, co-authored with Myra Seaman), in Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages; see above under "Books"
• "Exteriority Is Not a Negation But a Marvel: Hospitality, Terrorism, Levinas, Beowulf" (book chapter), in Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages; see above under "Books"
• "Liquid Beowulf" (book Introduction, co-authored with Mary Ramsey), in The Postmodern Beowulf; see above under "Books"
• "On the Hither Side of Time: Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin," (article), Medieval Perspectives 19 (2005)
• "Thomas Smith, Humfrey Wanley, and the 'little-known country' of the Cotton Library," (article), The British Library Journal (2005)

Articles and Chapters in Progress

• "He Did Not Know Him by the Visage: Eros, Event, and Non-Faciality in Malory's Tale of Balyn and Balan" (book chapter for Fragments Toward a History of a Vanishing Humanism; see above under "Books in Progress")
• "Affect, Going Astray, and Transmed[iev]iations: The BABEL Project" (book chapter for Transmediations, ed. Jen Boyle, for Ashgate)
• "Going Postal: Aesthetic Solidarity at the End of the World" (essay for Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida, ed. Michael O'Rourke, special issue of Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary 7: Fall 2012)
• "The Dreamlife of Guthlac: Itininerancy, Bare Life, Hagiography" (book chapter for The Politics of Ecology: Land, Life and Law in Medieval Britain, ed. Randy Schiff and Joseph Taylor (for Ohio State University Press)

Presses, Imprints & Labels

• punctum books

an independent, open-access, and print-on-demand book publisher that aims to promote radically creative modes of writing and inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities-assemblage; Eileen Joy, Director

• punctum records

  punctum records: a sound-impress of punctum books is an open-access & vinyl publisher of music and other sonic forms that take creative, forward-flying leaps, tarry in the archive of sensible forms, build pleasurably noisy pandemoniums, and seek to make sound an interventionist medium of both disruption and connection. Sound as connective tissue, tactical media, ambient rain. punctum records is an experiment in bringing together cultural theorists, musicologists, sound artists, and musicians as lovers and fighters in the ruins of the arts and humanities at a moment when noise-information overload meets a flattening out of channels and platforms for the dissemination of music, sonic art, and theory.

• Dead Letter Office

  an imprint of punctum books, in partnership with the BABEL Working Group, Dead Letter Office publishes small chapbook-style works, of approximately 30 to 80 pages, representing work that either has “gone nowhere” or will likely go nowhere, yet retains nevertheless little inkdrops of possibility and beauty and the darkling shape of a more full-bodied form and structure. The DLO imprint also considers actual letters to the dead: belated eulogies, posthumous transmissions to the underworld, love (and hate and other) missives to the departed, funerary telegrams, and various notes and commentaries to be used as devices to water the graveyards where, to cadge from Walter Benjamin, some of the dead are turning by a strange heliotropism toward the sun that is rising in the sky of history.

  

Journals

• postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies

 

a peer-reviewed journal in medieval cultural studies, launched in 2010, published quarterly; a production of the BABEL Working Group and Palgrave Macmillan; Eileen Joy and Myra Seaman, Editors; awarded the 2011 PROSE Award by the American Publishers Association for Best New Journal in the Humanities & Social Sciences and also the 2012 Award for Best New Journal by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers

Vol. 1.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2010): When Did We Become Post/human? (Editors: Eileen A. Joy and Craig Dionne)

Vol. 1.3 (Fall/Winter 2010): Critical Exchanges: Bruce Holsinger's The Premodern Condition/The State(s) of Early English Studies

Vol. 2.1 (Spring 2011): The Animal Turn (Editors: Karl Steel and Peggy McCracken)

Vol. 2.2 (Summer 2011): The Medievalism of Nostalgia (Editors: Helen Dell, Louise D'Arcens, and Andrew Lynch)

Vol. 2.3 (Fall 2011): New Critical Modes (Editors: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Cary Howie)

Vol. 3.1 (Spring 2012): Becoming Media (Editors: Jen Boyle and Martin Foys)

• Crowd Review Experiment: Becoming Media Issue

Vol. 3.2 (Summer 2012): Disability and the Social Body (Cluster Editor: Julie Singer)

Vol. 3.3 (Fall 2012): Cognitive Alterities/Neuromedievalism (Editors: Jane Chance and Antony Passaro)

Vol. 3.4 (Winter 2012): The Intimate Senses (Editors: Holly Dugan and Lara Farina)

Vol. 4.1 (Spring 2013) Ecomaterialism (Editors: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert)

Vol. 4.2 (Summer 2013) Medieval Mobilities (Editors: Laurie Finke, Kathleen Kelly, and Martin Shichtman)

Vol. 4.3 (Autumn 2013) FAULT (Cluster Editor: Anna Klosowska)

• postmedieval FORUM

a semi-annual, online & open-access feature of postmedieval: a journal of cultural studies, edited by Holly Crocker, featuring short responses, as well as dialogue and debate, relative to essays, reviews, and special issue topics appearing in regular issues of the journal.

Forum I: Historicity Without Historicism? Responses to Paul Strohm (October 2011)

Forum II: The State(s) of Review (March 2012)

Forum III: DISSENT (January 2013)

• O-Zone: A Journal of Object Oriented Studies

a peer-reviewed, open-access, and post-disciplinary journal, launched in 2011, devoted to object-oriented studies, both situated within and traversing the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and the arts. The journal invites new work that explores the weird realism, thingliness, and life-worlds of objects, and also aims to cultivate current streams of thought already established within object-oriented studies, while also providing space for new pathways along which disparate voices and bodies of object-oriented knowledges might encounter, influence, perturb, and motivate one another. A production of punctum books; Levi Bryant and Eileen Joy, Editors.

Journal Column

• "babelisms," The Heroic Age

  a regular column, edited by Eileen Joy, featuring essays on the artifacts—real and fictional, textual and otherwise—of early northwestern Europe in relation to the modern arts and postmodern critical thought

  • Issue 11: Daniel Murtaugh, "Absent Beowulf"
  • Issue 12: Helen Bennett, "The Postmodern Hall in Beowulf: Endings Embedded in Beginnings
  • Issue 13: Mary Kate Hurley, "The Ruins of the Past: Beowulf and Bethlehem Steel"
  • Issue 14: "The State(s) of Early English Studies," an essay cluster shared between The Heroic Age and postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies

Review Essays, Books Reviews, Short Essays, & Interviews:

• "In the Para-Academic Playground: An Interview with Eileen Joy" (by Tom White), Glasgow Review of Books, 7 May 2013.
• "Disturbing the Wednesday-ish Business-as-Usual of the University Studium: A Wayzgoose Manifest," continent. 2.4 (2012)
• "Everything We Think Can in Principle Be Thought By Someone Else: A Plea for Scholarship in the Open," special issue on "E-Medieval: Teaching, Research and the Net," ed. Orietta da Rold and Elaine Treharne, Literature Compass 9.12 (Dec. 2012)
• Interview (by Alex Reid, Heather Duncan, and Daniel Schweitzer), Digital Humanities Interview Project, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Dec. 2012.
• "Radical Hope for Medieval and Early Modern Studies" (interview by Michael Ursell), Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies [weblog], Stanford University, 18 Oct. 2012.
• Interview (by Andrew Hines), Figure/Ground Communication, 17 Sep. 2012.
• "Cryptomnesia: A Response to Kathleen Biddick," book chapter in Speculative Medievalisms: Discography, ed. Eileen Joy, Anna Klosowska, Nicola Masciandaro, and Michael O'Rourke (punctum books, 2012)
• "Not Far From, but Close to, the Madding Crowd," postmedieval FORUM II: "The State(s) of Review" (March 2012)
• Review of David Clark and Nicholas Perkins, eds., Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination (D.S. Brewer, 2010), Times Higher Education 3-9 February 2011
• Review of Kathleen Davis and Nadia Altschul, eds., Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of the "Middle Ages" Outside Europe (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2010), Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 11.3 (Winter 2010)
• "The Traherence of the Past" (Editor's Preface), postmedieval 1.3 (Autumn 2010)
• "Before the Trains of Thought Have Been Laid Down So Firmly: The Premodern Post/human" (Editors' Introduction, in When Did We Become Post/human?, co-authored with Craig Dionne, see above under "Books")
• Review of Virginia Burrus, The Sex Lives of Saints: The Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), GLQ: A Journal of Gay & Lesbian Studies 16.1-2 (2010)
• Review of Laura Farina, Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Sixteenth Century Journal 40.4 (Winter 2009)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2005: 4a. Literature: General and Miscellaneous," Old English Newsletter 39.2 (Winter 2007)
• Review of Eleanor Cook, Riddles and Enigmas in Literature (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006), Sixteenth Century Journal 39.1 (Spring 2008)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2004: 4a. Literature: General and Miscellaneous," Old English Newsletter 38.2 (Winter 2006)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2003: 4b. Literature: Individual Poems," Old English Newsletter 37.2 (Winter 2005)
• "After Everything, The Postmodern Beowulf" (book Preface, in The Postmodern Beowulf; see above under "Books")
• Review of Mark D. Meyerson, Daniel Thiery, and Oren Falk, eds., 'A Great Effusion of Blood'?: Interpreting Medieval Violence (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2004), Sixteenth Century Journal 37.3 (Fall 2006)
• Review of Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills, ed., The Monstrous Middle Ages (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2003), Sixteenth Century Journal 37.1 (Spring 2006)
• "James W. Earl's Thinking About Beowulf: Ten Years Later," (short essay) The Heroic Age 8 (June 2005)
• Review of Emily Steiner, Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003), Sixteenth Century Journal 36.2 (Winter 2005)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2002: 4b. Literature: Individual Poems," Old English Newsletter 36.2 (Winter 2004)
• "Mark Leyner" (co-authored with Roy C. Flannagan), Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First-Century American Novelists, vol. 292 (Gale Publishing, 2004)
• "What Counts is Not to Say, but to Say Again: A Response to Thomas A. Bredehoft, 'Anglo-Saxonists and eBay'," (short essay) Old English Newsletter 37.3 (Spring 2004)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2001: 4b. Literature: Individual Poems," Old English Newsletter 35.2 (Winter 2003)
• Review of Nicholas Howe, ed., Visions of Community in the Pre-Modern World (Notre Dame Univ. Press, 2002), Sixteenth Century Journal 34.4 (Winter 2003)
• Review of Blake Eskin, A Life in Pieces: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomiriski (W.W. Norton, 2002), Magill's Literary Annual, 2002 (Salem Press, 2003)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 2000: 4b. Literature: Individual Poems," in Old English Newsletter 35.2 (Winter 2002)
• Review of Allen Frantzen, Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulf to Angels in America (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1998), in Sixteenth Century Journal 33.4 (Winter 2002)
• Review of Susan Sontag, Where the Stress Falls (Farar, Straus and Giroux, 2001), Magill's Literary Annual, 2001 (Salem Press, 2002)
• "The Year's Work in Old English Studies, 1999: 4b. Literature: Individual Poems," in Old English Newsletter 34.2 (Winter 2001)
• Review of Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock, Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon (W.W. Norton, 2000), Magill's Literary Annual, 2000 (Salem Press, 2001)

Figure 3. Catherine Deneuve in Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965)

Weblogs:

• In The Middle (a group medieval studies weblog, fueled by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen @ George Washington University)

  Winner of the 2007 Cliopatria Award for Best Group Weblog in Historical Studies

Selected Posts:

Run, the Future is Coming! Or, Maybe Stand Still and Help to Manifest It? That's the Clockless Nowever Present! (15 May 2013)

A Welcoming Pavilion of Thought: Weird Reading (13 April 2013)

The Ultimate Rear-Avant-Garde: A Radicant-Altermodern Medieval Studies (9 January 2013)

Two Roads Diverged In a Yellow Wood, and I, I Took the One Less Travelled By: Why I Resigned My Professorship (7 October 2012)

These are the Tiny Engines that Power the Sails of Our Adventure: Friendship as a Way of Life (26 September 2012)

The Trust We Hold With Each Other: Why the Wayne State University Situation Matters (11 August 2012)

Disintegrating Allure: A Call for a New Commentariat (27 July 2012)

I'll Take My Medieval Studies Flash-Mobbed and Viral and On the Rocks, Please (17 May 2012)

Like a Radio Left On / On the Outskirts of Identical Cities: Living (with) Fradenburg (5 May 2012)

Fuck Pessimism: Embrace Youngsterism (14 January 2012)

No, Jeffrey Williams, the "Life" of the Theory Journal Has Not Been Brief, It Is Only Beginning (4 November 2011)

I'll Stop the World and Melt With You: A Plea for Inextricability, for Staying Awake, and an Insomniac Humanities (12 October 2011)

Everything We Think Can In Principle Be Thought By Someone Else: A Plea for Open, Collective Scholarship (7 September 2011)

Peer Review, Once More, But This Time With Feeling (13 August 2011)

Willingly Playing the Role of Thing: The Hopes of Persons as Transitional Objects (19 April 2011)

Quasi-Objects and the Interconnectedness of Everything with Everything Else: A Response to Stuart Elden at "Progressive Geographies" (2 February 2011)

Our Wayward and Flickering Existence: Notes Toward an Infinite Regress Historicism (24 December 2010)

Mattering, the Middle Voice, and Magnanimous Self-Donations: A Response to Jeffrey's "Queering the In/Organic" (5 September 2010)

Floundering Around Together: Medieval Blogging Redux (2 July 2010)

It's Never Enough, or, On Being Fucked Up (17 May 2010)

Embracing the Swerve: A Fugitive Medieval Studies (4 April 2010)

Some Other Kind of Relation That is Not Just Possible But Already at Work: Reading, Criticism, Interpretation (30 October 2009)

As Though It Were the Writer's Duty to Create Hope, But Out of What? A Response to "The Language That Locks Others Out" (18 August 2009)

The Arrested Deployment of the Orgies of Childhood: Bersanian Relationalities, Part I (18 June 2009)

And Then There Was One: A Semi-Erotic Anti-Hagiography (2 June 2009)

Some More Thoughts on Pleasure, Even More on Wonder, and Also, Some Regrets: Could Our Medieval Studies, the One We Want, Also Be a Pleasure Garden? (17 May 2009)

While I Was Counting My Pleasures, I Fell Asleep and Dreamed that All My Thoughts Were a Paper Sculpture Garden: A Dialogue with Julie Orlemanski (14 May 2009)

A Time in Which Vagabonds and Skinny Dogs Wander in the Grey Fog: On Sadness (17 April 2009)

Faith of a Kind: Aggressive Hermeneutics, Felicitous Weak Ontologies, and the Possibility of Interpretive Communities (14 March 2009)

Not Yet Living at the Same Time with the Others: Prendergast, Trigg, and Dinshaw on Medievalism and the Supernatural (22 February 2009)

3 Posts on Elizabeth Freeman's Erotohistoriography:

• The Insistent Return of a Corporealized Historiography and Future Making: Elizabeth Freeman's Erotohistoriography (13 January 2009)
• Coming Unstuck in Time: Elizabeth Freeman's Erotohistoiography Redux, Part I (17 January 2009)
• Sadomasochism, Temporality, History: Elizabeth Freeman's Erotohistoriography Redux, Part II (14 February 2009)

Having the Stubbornness to Accept My Gladness in the Ruthless Furnace of the World: Cruising a Possibilistic, Potential Medieval Studies (29 November 2008)

Like an Old Inscription That Has Been Scratched Away and Covered with Leaves: A Meditation on the Face (19 October 2008)

Silence Makes Up the Bulk of My Estate: The Burden of History--Not Then, or Later, But Now (21 September 2008)

What Lies Before Us: Old English Studies, the Agon of Thought, and Our Moments of Unknowingness (22 August 2008)

Time is the Question of the Subject Seized by His or Her Other: The Intensities of an Ardor of a Different Kind in Carolyn Dinshaw's Queer Historicism (10 August 2008)

Of Hospitals, Waiting Rooms, and Singular Unable Bodies (6 June 2008)

Dispatches from the Queer Future, Part I: Happiness, Killjoys, Sticky Objects, and a Plea for Arrested Development (30 May 2008)

It Is Understood By This Time that Everything Is the Same Except Composition and Time: Joan Retallack's The Poethical Wager (3 May 2008)

Towards a Restless Medieval Studies: Redux (29 April 2008)

Here Now Is One Who Will Increase Our Loves: On the Virtues (and Loves) of Beautiful Singularities (11 March 2008)

Between What Is Ours and What is Not Ours: Cary Howie's Claustrophilia, Anachronism, Friendship, and an Open Letter to My Profession (24 Feb. 2008)

The Other Middle Ages, A Place to Believe In, and the Fluidity of Frontiers (17 Feb. 2008)

Tracks Leading to Various Aspects of Existence that are Inaccessible by Any Other Means: Why I Teach Literature (30 Jan. 2008)

The Weight of History, A World Without Force, and The Wind That Shakes the Barley (7 Dec. 2007)

Medieval Studies, Unsettled Subjectivity, and the Thousand Tiny Itinerants of Saint Guthlac's Body (18 Nov. 2007)

The Loving Hope of Working Groups and Humanist Desiring-Revolutions (2 Nov. 2007)

Art Reveals More of Life Than Life Does: Heterosexuality, Erotohistoriography, and Our Perverse Desire for a Pleasurably Queer Medieval Studies (7 Oct. 2007)

• Literature Compass (a literary studies weblog fueld by Blackwell Publishers in Oxford, England)

Selected Posts:

Signaling to Each Other from Inscrutable Depths: A Response to Gabrielle Spiegel's "'Getting Medieval': History and the Torture Memos" (27 March 2009)

I'm a Pleasure Seeker, Looking for the Real Thing: We Are All Presentists Now (14 July 2008)

Figure 4. Emmanuelle Béart and Fanny Ardant in Anne Fontaine's Nathalie (2003)

PUBLICATIONS & OTHER WORKS - CREATIVE

• "Break In Case of Emergency," "Ruthless Gravity," and "In Residence: Ode to the Collyer Brothers" (poems), presented at "Wordsmirch" (group poetry reading), Mother Foucault's Bookshop, Portland, Oregon (July 2012)
• "The Borges Problem" (postulated art-object), Exhibit: "The Universe Traversed by My Spinal Cord," Head Gallery, New York City (April-June 2011)
• "From the Stylus of Hamlet's Amanuensis: A Poem in Three Registers" (poem), Swink Magazine, February 2011
• "Break Only in Case of Emergency" (prose poem), Whiskey & Fox 4.1, March 2010
• "Personals for the Fictionally Forlorn" (short story), Sou'wester, Spring 2009
• "When It Was Morning" (short story), Sou'wester, Spring 2005
• "About the Author" (short story), Black Warrior Review, Fall/Winter 2000
• "Emma" (short story), in Worlds in Our Words: Contemporary American Women Writers (Boston: Blair Press/Prentice Hall), 1997
• "Lot's Wife" (short story), in Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction (Chicago: Fiction Collective 2 Press), 1995
• "On The Question of Redemption" (poem), The Sun, September 1993
• "Stones: A Love Story" (short story), The Sun, February 1993
• In Wisconsin the Blind Can Hunt (film script), produced and shown at The Atlanta Alternative Film Festival (1991), the Chicago Student Film Festival (1992, 2nd Place Winner: Alternative Category; Judge: Stephen Frears), the Milwaukee Alternative Film Festival (1992)
• "A Sweet, Crunchy Tart" (short story), Short Fiction By Women, 1992
• "All That Food in Limbo" (short story), New Virginia Review, Volume 8, 1991

MAJOR GRANTS SUBMITTED

• "Premodern Humanisms, Modern Sciences, and the Posthuman Humanities" ($71,587 National Endowment for the Humanities "Faculty Humanities Workshops" grant; co-submitted in Sep. 2007 with Myra Seaman, College of Charleston; not funded)
• "The Multiple Histories of Virtue" ($257,500 grant proposal to the University of Chicago's Arete Initiative project, "A New Science of Virtues"; submitted jointly in March 2009 with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington University, Jessica Palmer, National Institutes of Health, and Jonah Lehrer, Seed Magazine; not funded)
• "The Muslim World and the Humanities: Islam in Middle America" ($120,000 National Endowment for the Humanities "Bridging Cultures: Planning and Implementation Grants for Academic Forums and Program Development Workshops"; co-submitted in May 2010 with Steve Tamari, S.I.U.E.; primary partners: Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies @Washington University of Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum, Center for Muslim-Chrisian Understanding @Georgetown University, Missouri History Museum, and Edwardsville Public Library (Illinois); not funded.
• "Inhuman Actors: Tracing the Lives of Objects in Medieval Literature" ($114,700 American Council of Learned Societies Collaborative Research Fellowship; submitted in Sep. 2011 with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington University; not funded)

INVITED TALKS

• Guest Lecturer: "Notes Toward a Theoretics for the Polluted Women of Imaginary Histories," The Newberry Library, Renaissance Consortium Seminar, "Unworthy Bodies: The Other Texts of the Beowulf Manuscript," led by Susan Kim (Jan. 2007)
• Guest Lecturer: "The Question of the Frontier in Herodotus's Histories and Beowulf," Wake Forest University, Humanities Seminar: "The Other Middle Ages," led by Gillian Overing and Ulrike Weithaus (February 2008)
• Featured Speaker: "That Splendid and Terribly Made Spectacle: Beholding Our Dead Enemies," Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH), "Beholding Violence: A Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Representation and Culture" (Feb. - Mar. 2008)
• Featured Speaker: “Between What is Ours and What is Not Ours: Claustrophilia, Attachment, Anachronism, Friendship,” Medieval Club of New York (CUNY Graduate Center, New York City), Lecture Series Panel: “Subjects of Friendship: Medieval and Medievalist” (March 2008)
• Panel Respondent: “Papers from Dr. Kim’s Seminar: The Other Texts of the Beowulf Manuscript,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (May 2008)
• Respondent: "Feminist, Lesbian and Gay, and Queer Responses to Chapter 2, 'Sexual Orientation,' of Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology," Intensive Interdisciplinary Seminar: "Sexuality and Phenomenology: Reading Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology," University College Dublin, co-hosted by The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research and the Humanities Institute of Ireland (May 2008)
• Paper Presenter: "Queer Times, Queer Bodies, and the Erotics of a Nomadic Anglo-Saxon Studies," King’s College London, The Second International Workshop of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, “Anglo-Saxon Futures 2: About Time” (May 2008)
• Guest Lecturer: “Chretien's Yvain and Modern Love,” French 699: Graduate Seminar in Medieval Studies, led by Anna Klosowska (Miami University at Oxford, Ohio), University of Burgundy, Dijon, France (July 2008)
• Panel Discussant: “Gender Trouble, Again,” Panel Session: “Locating Gender in the Middle Ages: A Roundtable Discussion” (co-sponsored by King’s College London and the Gender and Medieval Studies Group), International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (July 2008)
• Featured Speaker: “The Faded, Silvery Imprints of the Bare Feet of Angels: Notes Toward an Historical Poethics," Inaugural Symposium: "Touching the Past," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (November 2008)
• Panel Discussant: "Post-Institutional Assemblages and the Desiring-Machine of BABEL," Panel Session: "Getting the Medieval Studies We Want: Institutional Perspectives," sponsored by the George Washington University Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (May 2009)
• Facilitator: Session 3: "Relationality," Intensive Interdisciplinary Seminar: "Reading Leo Bersani: A Retrospective," University College, Dublin, hosted by The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research in association with the School of English, Drama and Film (June 2009)
• Keynote Speaker: "Reading Beowulf in the Rubble of Grozny: Pre/modern Subjects, Post/human Rights, and the Question of Being-Together," 1st Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference: "Breaking Down Barriers," sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell Compass Journals (October 2009)
• Guest Speaker: "Alexander Penetrated and Undone: Queer Orientations in the Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle," Graduate Seminar, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (October 2009)
• Featured Speaker: "All At One Point," Seminar: "Cary Howie's Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (November 2009)
• Featured Speaker: "A Break Within the Flow of Absolute Consciousness? Malory's Balyn," Department of English, University of Texas at Austin (March 2010)
• Featured Speaker: "Embracing the Swerve : A Fugitive Medieval Studies," Special Forum: "Always Historicize? Historicism, Post-historicism, and Medieval Studies," Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, New York University (April 2010)
• Featured Speaker: "Spiritually Liquefying Speech," "An Afternoon of Queer Post-Medievalism," Cornell University, hosted by the Society for the Humanities, Department of Romance Studies, and the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program (April 2010)
• Featured Speaker: "Assemblage, Faciality, and Event in Malory's Balyn and Balan," Medieval and Renaissance Center Spring Conference: "Medieval Nature and Its Others," New York University (April 2010)
• Featured Speaker: "Like Two Autistic Moonbeams Piercing the Windows of Each Other’s Asylum: Violence, Community, and the Ethics of Care in Chaucer’s The Clerk’s Tale and Lars von Trier’s Breaking the Waves," Visiting Scholar Series, Dept. of English, College of Charleston (September 2010)
• Plenary Speaker: "You Are Here: A Manifesto," Conference: "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (March 2011)
• Featured Speaker: "I Am Ruined But Not Afraid: Poetry as Address," Symposium: "Queer Optimism & Affective Poetry," Poets House, New York City (April 2011)
• Panel Discussant: "The Time of Beowulf Is Infinite in Every Direction: Redux," Panel Session: "Beowulf and History," sponsored by the Oregon Medieval English Literature Society, 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (May 2011)
• Featured Speaker: "I Have Given Up Trying to Recognize You in the Surging Wave of the Next Moment: The Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle as a System in Cascade," Conference: "Literature and Identity Formation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium," Center for Canon and Identity Formation (CIF), University of Copenhagen, Denmark (May 2011)
• Guest Lecturer: "On Michael Haneke's Cache," French 699: Graduate Seminar in Medieval Studies, led by Anna Klosowska (Miami University at Oxford, Ohio), University of Burgundy, Dijon, France (June 2011)
• Featured Instructor: "Toward a Speculative Realist Literary Criticism," The Public School of New York, Brooklyn, New York City (September 2011)
• Featured Speaker: "Toward a Speculative Realist Literary Criticism: Redux," Literature and the Mind & the Medieval Literatures Initiative, University of California-Santa Barbara (October 2011)
• Featured Speaker: "it would be hard to say exactly what I felt: Vibrations in the Archive," School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne (December 2011)
• Featured Speaker: "An Improbable Manner of Being: Medieval Hagiography, Queer Studies, and Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves," Australian Research Council Symposium: "International Medievalism and Popular Culture," University of Western Australia (December 2011)
• Invited Lecturer: "More Notes Toward a Speculative Realist Literary Criticism," Svenska Twitteruniversitet [The Swedish Twitter University] (December 2011)
• Workshop Leader: "Nonhumans: Ecology, Ethics, Objects," Eastern Michigan University (February 2012)
• Featured Speaker: "Oceanic Sorrow: Elegy for Detroit," Symposium: "Ecological Movement," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (February 2012)
• Moderator: Journal of Narrative Theory "Dialogue" Colloquium: "Nonhumans: Ecology, Ethics, Objects" (Featured Speakers: Jeffrey J. Cohen and Timothy Morton), Eastern Michigan University (March 2012)
• Panel Discussant: "Para-Academic Publishing," Public Lecture Series on Para-Academia, The Public School New York, Obervatory Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (April 2012)
• Panel Discussant: "Post-Space: A Virtual Conference on the Future of the Physical," The The Hollow Earth Society, Elsewhere Collaborative (April 2012)
• Panel Discussant: "#Occupy Humanities," Panel Session: "Literature, Theory, and the Future of Medieval Studies: Middle English and Its Others," sponsored by Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University (May 2012)
• Featured Speaker: "Guerrilla Metaphysics, Alien Phenomenology, Massive Addressability, and Other Strange Attractors of a Possible Object Oriented Criticism," Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies Lecture Series, University of Alabama (August 2012)
• Invited Lecturer: "Speculative Realisms: An Object-Oriented Ontology Seminar," Department of English, Northeastern University (September 2012)
• Respondent: "Object-Oriented Feminism," two panels organized by Katherine Behar (featuring: Katherine Behar, Jamie Skye Bianco, Ian Bogost, Patricia Clough, Katherine Hayles, Timothy Morton, Anne Pollock, and Steven Shaviro), 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (September 2012)
• Featured Speaker: "Guerrilla Metaphysics, Alien Phenomenology, Massive Addressability, and Other Strange Attractors of a Possible Object Oriented Criticism: Redux," English Department, University at Buffalo, SUNY (October 2012)
• Featured Lecturer: "Claude Romano's Evential Hermeneutics and Malory's Morte dArthur," English Department, University at Buffalo, SUNY (October 2012)
• Featured Speaker: "Pursuing a Fugitive, Vagabond, Promiscuous, Post/medieval University," DeRoy Lecture Series, Department of English, Wayne State University (November 2012)
• Featured Speaker: "Women Who Take the Ideal All the Way: Lars von Trier's Hagiography," Department of English, University of Sydney (November 2012)
• Featured Speaker: "Pursuing a Fugitive, Vagabond, Promiscuous Post/medieval Studies," Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Western Australia (November 2012)
• Featured Speaker: "Eros, Ethics, and Non-Faciality in Terence Malick's The Thin Red Line and Malory's Tale of Balyn and Balan," Collaboratory: "Faces of Emotion," University of Melbourne (December 2012)
• Featured Speaker: "Celestial Nourishment: Notes Toward a New Commentariat," Medieval Round Table Series: Ancient, Medieval & Early Modern Studies, University of Melbourne (December 2012)
• Panel Discussant: "Social Media and Scholarship: The State of Middle-States Publishing" (special session), MLA Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusetts (Jan. 2013)
• Featured Speaker: "Post/apocalytpic," Symposium: "Ecology of the Inhuman," Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (April 2013)
• Plenary Speaker: "Freedom, Responsibility, and a Non-Sad Militancy" Building Illegitimate Public-ations," Plenary Session: "Publics and Publications for/in Cultural Studies," Cultural Studies Association Conference, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois (May 2013)
• Invited Speaker: Symposium: "Oceanic New York," St. John's University, New York (Sep. 2013)
• Invited Speaker: Workshop: "A Feeling for Things: Jane Bennett," Birbeck College, University of London (Oct. 2013)

Figure 5. Irene Jacob in Krystof Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique (1991)

CONFERENCE - CO-FOUNDER

• Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

• "Blue" (10th Biennial Conference of the Assoc. for the Study of Literature and the Environment [ASLE], Lawrence, KS, 2013)
• "Institutional Change/Paradigm Change," co-presented with Aranye Fradenburg, for "The Future We Want" session, organized by Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington University (48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2013)
• "Not Disciplinarity, but Ecology," for "Literature and Other Disciplines: In Honor of Eugene Vance," Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature Division (MLA Annual Convention, Boston, MA, 2013)
• "These are the Tiny Engines that Power the Sails of Our Adventure: Friendship as a Way of Life (Again, and Again)," co-presented with Anna Klosowska (2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, Boston, MA, 2012)
• "Disintegrating Allure: A Call for a New Commentariat" (18th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Portland, OR, 2012)
• The Post/human Technics of Chivalric Techne in Chretien's Yvain" (International Medieval Society Symposium, Paris, France, 2012)
• "Post/apocalyptic" (47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2012)
• "Postal Networks, Affect, and Going Astray: Aesthetic Solidarity" (Network Archaeologies Conference, Oxford, OH, 2012)
• "Not Wanting to Escape Out of the Snare as a Sparrow: The Importance of Being Embodied in the Old English Seven Sleepers" (Biennial Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Madison, WI, 2011)
• "I Will Restore to You the Years that the Locust Hath Eaten: Spencer Reece's Addresses" (46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2011)
• "Cryptomnesia: A Response to Kathleen Biddick," with Anna Klosowska (Speculative Medievalisms: A Laboratory-Atelier, London, UK, 2011)
• "Shafts or Freight Tunnels Constructed Between Objects that Otherwise Would Remain Quarantined in Private Vacuums: Chaucer’s Griselda and Lars von Trier’s Bess McNeill" (17th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Siena, Italy, 2010)
• "It's Never Enough, or, On Being Fucked Up" (45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2010)
• "I Wanted to See the Innermost Part of India: The Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle" (35th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Nashville, TN, 2009)
• "Alexander Penetrated and Undone: Queer Orientations in the Old English Letter of Alexander to Aristotle" (International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 2009)
• "The Light of Her Face was the Index of a Voluptuous Multiplicity of Guthlacs: Desire and Incest in the Lives of Saint Guthlac" (44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2009)
• "He Did Not Know Him by the Visage: Nomads, Combinards, and the Knight with Two Swords" (Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia, PA, 2008)
• "Eros and Event in Malory's Tale of Balyn and Balan" (34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Saint Louis, MO, 2008)
• "The Thousand Tiny Itinerants of Saint Guthlac’s Body: Redux" (International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, 2008)
• "Dying Is an Art, Like Everything Else: The Lowly, Unsettled Aesthetics of Guthlac-Becoming" (43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2008)
• "You Must Change Your Life: Woody Allen's Another Woman" (Southern Illinois University Spring Colloquium: Thinking About the University, Edwardsville, IL, 2008)
• "The Thousand Tiny Itinerants of Saint Guthlac's Body" (49th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, Ohio, 2007)
• "Beyond Feminist, Gender, Queer, Everything Studies: Notes Toward an Enamored Medieval Studies " (42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2007)
• "White Trash Macbeth: Scotland, PA and the Deadly Seriousness of Comedy" (48th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL, 2006)
• "The Seven Sleepers, Eros, and the Unincorporable Infinite of the Human Person" (41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006)
• "Eros, Love, Regard, and the Humanities" (41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006)
• "The Wild, Uncontrolled Time of the Individual-Becoming" (31st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Daytona Beach, FL, 2005)
• "The Shadow of the Blackbird Crossed the Wonders of the East, To and Fro" (31st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Daytona Beach, FL, 2005)
• "honour desires the body's pain: The Posthuman Circuits of Chivalric Desire in Chretien de Troyes's Yvain and the Iraq War" (Midwest Conference on British Studies, Notre Dame, IN, 2005)
• "Because They Were Scandalous in Their Bodies: The Old English Wonders of the East and the Mutilation of the Women of Gujarat, India" (Annual Medieval Academy Meeting, Miami, FL, 2005)
• "Because the Mountain is All Aflame: The Old English Wonders of the East and the Mutilation of the Women of Gujarat, India" (22nd Annual Conference of the Illinois Medieval Association, Carbondale, IL, 2005)
• "The Cannibal Poetics and Hypnotic Glimmer of the Chivalric Self in Medieval Romance and the Iraq War" (Southern Illinois University Spring Colloquium: Thinking About Masculinity, Edwardsville, IL, 2005)
• "Medieval Community/Liquid Modernity" (30th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Charleston, SC, 2004)
• "Beyond the State in the State: Beowulf, Levinas, and the Ethics of Hospitality" (39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2004)
• "Empire and the Obscure Object of Terrorism" (Southern Illinois University Spring Colloquium: Thinking About Empire, Edwardsville, IL, 2004)
• "My Borders Have Only Ever Been Broached By Books: Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin" (29th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Fayetteville, AK, 2003)
• "The Elsewhere Ghosts of Beowulf" (38^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2003)
• "Last Things and Lieux de Memoire: The Electronic Beowulf and The Last Supper" (28^th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Tallahassee, FL, 2002)
• "The Time of Beowulf is Infinite in Every Direction" (37^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2002)
• "Beowulf and the Curators, Bound and Unbound" (27^th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, New Orleans, LA, 2001)
• "Beowulf, Broken Symmetries, and the Edge of Chaos" (Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, 2000)
• "John Mitchell Kemble and the Floating Wreck of History" (26th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Asheville, NC, 2000)
• "They Talked Too Much: Elegy for the Early English Text Society" (35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2000)  
• "Theses for a Philosophy of Teaching" (Values in Higher Education Conference, Knoxville, TN, 1996)  
• "'In Hys blod He wesch my wede on dese, and coronde clene in vergynty': Pearl and Female Spirituality" (65th Annual Convention of SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, 1995; nominated for Graduate Student Essay Prize)
• "What is Seized: Beowulf as Cultural Memory" (30th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 1995)  
• "'Mais quelle etreinte etait-ce la?': The Individual, the Community and God in Camara Laye's Le Regard du roi" (35th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Seattle, WA,1992)

CONFERENCE - ORGANIZER

• 3rd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group: "on the beach: precariousness, risk, forms of life, affinity, and play at the edge of the world"
• Critical/Liberal/Arts 2 (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, September 2013)
• Critical/Liberal/Arts 1 (University of California, Irvine, April 2013)
• 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group: "cruising in the ruins: the question of disciplinarity in the post/medieval university" (Boston College, Northeastern University, M.I.T., and Tufts University, September 2012)
  • "Medievalists Explore the Art of Being Interdisciplinary" (MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences)
  • "BABEL 2012: Doingness, Interdisciplinarity, and the Digital Humanties (An Afterthought)" (Jen Boyle: Early Modern, Network Studies, Theory)
  • "BABEL 2012" (Steve Mentz: The Bookfish)
  • "Let's FAIL Together: Yeah Yeah YEAH" (Jonathan Hsy: In The Middle)
  • "Friendship as Futurity: BABEL 2012" (Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: In The Middle)
  • "City of History, City of Love: Reflectons on BABEL Boston 2012" (Mary Kate Hurley: In The Middle)
  • "Material Collective @BABEL 2012" (Maggie Williams: Material Collective)
  • "BABEL 2012: I Had a Time, A Polychronous Time, Which I am Still Having Now Then" (Chris Piuma: es lepus)
• Speculative Medievalisms 2: A Laboratory-Atelier (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, September 2011)
• Speculative Medievalisms 1: A Laboratory-Atelier (King's College London, January 2011)
  • Audiofiles for Speculative Medievalisms @ King's College London
• 1st Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group: "after the end: medieval studies, the humanities, and the post-catastrophe" (University of Texas at Austin, November 2010)
• 34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association: "Bodies, Embodiments, Becomings" (Saint Louis University, October 2008)

CONFERENCE (and other) SESSIONS - ORGANIZER

• "The World is But a Thurghfare: Transit, Transport, Scapes, and Flows" (19th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Rekjavik, Iceland, 2014)
• BABEL Working Group: I. "Blunder"; 2. "Plunder" (48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2013)
• postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies: "Thriving" (48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2013)
• "Going Postal: Networks, Affect, and Retro-Technologies" (2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, Boston, MA, 2012)
• punctum books + The Public School New York + Hollow Earth Society: "Para-Academic Publishing" (Brooklyn, NY, 2012)
• BABEL Working Group: I. "Fuck This: On Finally Letting Go"; 2. "Fuck Me: On Never Letting Go" (47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2012)
• postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies: "Burn After Reading: Miniature Manifestos for a Future Post/medieval Studies" (47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2012)
• "Visions of the Flesh" (Biennial Conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, Madison, WI, 2011)
• BABEL Working Group + postmedieval: "Wondrous Cosmology: Physics, Poetics, Biology" (Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Worlds, George Washington University, 2011)
• postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies: "The Transcultural Middle Ages" (46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2011)
• BABEL Working Group: 1. "Madness, Methodology, Medievalisms"; 2. "Queering the Muse: Medieval Poetry and Contemporary Poetics" (46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2011)
• postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies: 1. "The Post-Abysmal: Exegesis, Ethics, Saturation"; 11. "The Post-Abysmal: Optimism, Devotion, Radiance" (45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2010)
• BABEL Working Group: 1. "On the Question of Style"; 2. "On Collaboration" (45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2010)
• BABEL Working Group: "Knowing and Unknowing Pleasures" (35th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Nashville, TN, 2009)
• BABEL Working Group: 1. "Are We Enjoying Ourselves? The Place of Pleasure in Medieval Scholarship"; 2. "Are We Serious Enough Yet? The Place of Ethics in Medieval Scholarship" (44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2009)
• BABEL Working Group: "The Turn to the Post/human: Desires, Bodies, Selves, Histories" (Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Philadelphia, PA, 2008)
• BABEL Working Group: 1. "Eros and Phenomenology" I & II; 2. "Bodies In Between"; 3. "The Place of the Medieval in the Present" (34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Saint Louis, MO, 2008)
• BABEL Working Group: 1. "Is There a Theory in the House of Old English Studies?"; 2. "What Is the Place of the Present in Medieval Studies?" (43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2008)
• BABEL Working Group and Journal of Narrative Theory: "Theorizing Real Subtexts: Downward Mobility and the Revisions of the Past" (49th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Cleveland, OH, 2007)
• BABEL Working Group: 1. "Premodern to Modern Humanisms"; 2. "What Happened to Theory in Medieval Studies?" (42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2007)
• BABEL Working Group and Journal of Narrative Theory: "High Stakes/Lowbrow: Early Modern Texts and Medieval Fantasies in Pop Culture and Film" (48th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Society, Chicago, IL, 2006)
• BABEL Working Group: "Premodern to Modern Humanisms: Beginnings"; 2. "Premodern to Modern Humanisms: Endings" (32nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Oxford, MS, 2006)
• BABEL Working Group: 1. "Medieval to Modern Humanisms"; 2. "Is Beowulf Postmodern Yet?" I & II (41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2006)
• BABEL Working Group: 1. "Medieval Humanisms/Modern Humanisms"; 2. "Premodern and Posthuman: Bodies, Borders, and Histories"; 3. "The Scandalous and Amazonian Bodies of the Old English Wonders of the East" (31st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Daytona Beach, FL, 2005)
• BABEL Working Group: "Premodern and Posthuman: Bodies, Borders, and Histories" (51st Annual Midwest Conference on British Studies, Notre Dame, IN, 2005)
• "Lions, Goats, Wolves, and Receding Heir Lines: The Corporeal and Psychic Orders of the Anxious, Violent, Outlaw Male" (2nd Annual College of Arts and Sciences Colloquium, "Thinking About Masculinity," SIUE, 2005)
• Group for Postfeminist Scholarship: "Remaking the Middle Ages on Reality Television" (30th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Charleston, SC, 2004)
• Group for Postfeminist Scholarship: "Postfeminist Critique and the Premodern Text" (39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2004)

Figure 6. Daniel Auteil and Juliette Binoche in Michael Haneke's Caché (2005)

SELECTED COURSES

Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville

• English 111 Introduction to Literature: Beholding Violence in Drama and Film
• English 208 Topics in Early British Literature: Into the Wild
• English 214: Topics in World Literature, Ancient to Medieval: War, Violence, and Heroism
• English 404 Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
• English 421 Poetry & Prose of the Medieval Period: The Arthurian Remix
• English 441b Contemporary Literature, Fiction: Fantastic/Slipstream/Realism
• English 480 Major Authors: John Milton, Neil Labute, and the Question of Sin (Fall 2009)
• English 480 Major Authors: Mise-en-Abyme in Boccaccio, Chaucer, Borges, Auster (Spring 2012)
• English 496 Scholarly and Critical Editing: Open-Access Publishing Lab
• English 497a Bodies-Becoming & Identity Machines: Post/human Literatures
• English 502 Modern Literary Theory: Objects, Actants, Networks (Spring 2011)
• English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Beowulf, Cultural Memory, & War (Spring 2004)
  • The Beowulf Weblog: SIUE and Université Laval, Quebec
• English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Masculinity, Violence, & the Medieval Romance (Spring 2005)
• English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literaure: The Post/human Middle Ages (Spring 2007)
• English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Writing, Race, and the English Nation (Fall 2007)
• English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Medieval Sex (Spring 2010)
• English 505 Seminar in Medieval Literature: Medieval Supernatural (Fall 2012)
• Interdisciplinary Studies 399 Lord of the Rings and Medieval Heroic Poetry (Summer 2007 & Spring 2008; with Prof. Douglas Simms, Foreign Languages)

Coastal Carolina University

• Honors 101 Honors Seminar: East Meets West
  • selected by the National Collegiate Honors Council as one of the six most outstanding interdisciplinary courses for an Honors Program in the United States; published in NCHC’s journal, Honors in Practice, volume 7.2 (2006): 118-121

AWARDS, HONORS, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Lead Instructor (with Anna Klosowska), Advanced Graduate Seminar, "Asceticism, Eroticism, and the Premodern Foucault," Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois (Jan.-March 2013)
• Advisory Board, "Object Lessons" (book series directed by Ian Bogost and Christopher Schaberg), Continuum-Bloomsbury Publishers & The Atlantic
• Distinguished International Visiting Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellenc:, "History of Emotions, Europe 1100-1800" (Nov. - Dec. 2012)
• $9,622 Seed Grant for Transitional and Exploratory Projects (Southern Illinois University, 2012-13)
• Editorial Board, "Speculative Realisms" (book series directed by Graham Harman), Edinburgh University Press
• $2,520 Seed Grant for Transitional and Exploratory Projects (Southern Illinois University, 2011-12)
• $4,852 Reassigned Time for Research Award (Southern Illinois University, 2008-09)
• Section Editor, Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Comentary (online journal on the philosophy and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia)
• Cliopatria Award for Best Group Weblog: In The Middle (2007)
• $8,000 Summer Research Fellowship (Southern Illinois University, 2007)
• $4,000 Professional Enhancement Grant (Coastal Carolina University, 2006)
• Course Syllabus, “Honors 101: East Meets West” (co-designed and co-taught with six other faculty in the College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Coastal Carolina University in Fall 2005), selected by the National Collegiate Honors Council as one of the six most outstanding interdisciplinary courses for an Honors Program in the United States (published in NCHC’s journal, Honors in Practice 7.2 [2006]: 118-121)
• Ad hoc Reviewer (books): Columbia University Press, Continuum Books, West Virginia University Press
• Ad hoc Reviewer, PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association)
• Ad hoc Reviewer, Culture, Theory and Critique
• Ad hoc Reviewer, Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Ad hoc Reviewer, Modern Philology
• Ad hoc Reviewer, Papers on Language and Literature
• Ad hoc Reviewer and Special Column Editor, The Heroic Age
• Editorial Board, Medieval Section, Literature Compass
• $2,305 Funded University Research Grant (Southern Illinois University, 2005)
• Visiting Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge University (N.E.H. Summer Institute for College Teachers, "Anglo-Saxon England," 2004)
• $6,000 Summer Research Fellowship (Southern Illinois University, 2004)
• Nominee of the Univ. of Tennessee, Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation in the Humanities Award (2003)
• Editorial Board, The Year's Work in Old English Studies (2001-08)
• Residency, Sewanee Writers' Conference (July 1999)
• Chancellor's Citation for Extraordinary Professional Promise (U.T., 1996)
• Mildred Morris Haines and William Elijah Morris Award in Classics (U.T., 1995-96)
• John C. Hodges Award for Exceptional Scholarship (U.T., August 1995)
• Fellow’s Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (May 1995)
• The Classics Honor Society of Eta Sigma Phi (inducted April 1995)
• John C. Hodges Excellence in Teaching Award (U.T., August 1994)
• Graduate Fiction Award (U.T., May 1994 & May 1995)
• John C. Hodges 1st-Year Ph.D. Fellowship (U.T., 1993-94)
• The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (inducted 1992)

Figure 7. Irene Jacob and Philippe Volter in Krystof Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique (1991)

 

*all projects powered by Mon. Sparkles Joy