Kathryn A. Laity
The English Department
The College of Saint Rose
432 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12203
518.485.3778
laityk[at]strose.edu
http://academic2.strose.edu/Arts_and_Humanities/laityk/ [www.kalaity.com]
ACADEMIC
POSITIONS
2010-present Associate
Professor of English (Medieval), The College of Saint Rose
2009-present Coordinator,
Women's Studies Program, The College of Saint Rose
2006-2010 Assistant
Professor of English (Medieval), The College of Saint Rose
2003-2006 Assistant
Professor of English (Medieval), University of Houston-Downtown
2002-2003 Instructor,
University of Houston-Downtown
2001-2002 Instructor,
Manchester Community College
1993-2002 Instructor/Graduate
Assistant, University of Connecticut
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 2003, University of Connecticut — Medieval
Studies
Dissertation: Local Heroes: The Sociocultural Context for
the Development of Vernacular Saints' Lives in Old Irish, Old Norse and Old
English. Committee: Frederick M. Biggs (director), Robert J. Hasenfratz, Thomas N. Hall (University of Illinois-Chicago)
M.A. 1995, University of Connecticut — Medieval
Studies
A.M. 1985,
University of Southern California — International Relations
A.B. 1983,
Michigan State University — James Madison College
TEACHING
COLLEGE OF
SAINT ROSE (all courses have companion Blackboard pages)
English 114: Introduction to Literary
Genres and Traditions
English 134: Medieval Literature
English 206: Creative Writing
English 226: Women & Writing (Early
Periods)
English 230: Topics in Early British
Literature
English 252: Writing for New Media
English 279: Film: Theory and Practice:
"Three Weeks of Terror: A History of Horror Film"
English 328/History 380: Texts and
Contexts in The Middle Ages
English 342: Studies in Medieval
Literature: "Medieval Texts on Film", "Masculinities &
Medieval Film"
English 379: Studies in Film:
"Writers in Motion"
English 516: Survey of Medieval
Literature
English 566: Literature, Performance
and Visual Narrative
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON-DOWNTOWN
English 4390: Topics in Language &
Literature—Medieval Texts on Film, Spring 2004
English 4314: Major
Authors—Chaucer, Fall 2005, Spring 2003
English 3354: Film as Narrative—Horror Film, Summer
2003
English 3340/HUM 3310: Cultural Criticism—Canterbury,
2006
English 3315: Speculative Fiction, Spring 2005
English 3309: Creative Writing, Fall
2003, 2004
English 2313: British Literature from
its Beginnings to 1800, Fall 2002-2006
English 1302: Composition II, Fall
2002-2006
UNIVERSITY OF
CONNECTICUT
English 112: Classical and Medieval
Literature, Spring 2002
English 111: Writing Through
Literature, Fall 2001
English 110: Seminar in Writing, Fall 2000
English 109: Literature &
Composition, 1994-2001
English 105: English Composition, Fall 1993
MANCHESTER
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Writing & Publishing Genre Fiction, Spring 2002
The Truth About Vikings, Spring 2002, Fall 2001
Viking Magic & Mysteries,
Excursions in Learning, February 2002
Bold Warriors
and Gentle Knights: Medieval Masculinities on Film.
Proposal submitted to University Press of Mississippi.
"Avast, Land Lubbers! Reading Lost Girls as a Post-Sadeian Text." Lost Loves: Why Men and Women Make It (or Don’t)
in the Work of Alan Moore. Eds. Todd Comer and Joseph Sommers.
Forthcoming.
"Rite
Here: Ritual, Performance and the Magick of
Place." Studies in
Comics (2011): forthcoming.
"'Won't
Somebody Please Think of the Children?': The Case for
Terry Gilliam's Tideland." Under submission.
"London
Demons: Cursed, Trapped and Haunted in William Heaney's
[Graham Joyce's] Memoirs of a Master
Forger [2008]." 21st
Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels since 2000. Ed. Danel
Olson. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press,
2011. Forthcoming.
"The
Gilda Stories" and "The Vampire Lifestyle." Encyclopedia of the Vampire.
Ed. S. T. Joshi. Greenwood Press, Nov 2010.
"Wild
Desire: Gendering the Other in Sinisalo's Troll: A Love Story." Mythic Imagination (Aug 2010).
"Joanna
Russ on Slash Fiction." Guest blog. Teach
Me Tonight: 24 January 2010.
"Heofen rece swealg: Neomedievalism and
Spectacle in Grendel: Transcendence of The Great Big Bad."
Studies in Medievalism 22 (2009):
15-25.
"Medieval
Community: Lessons from The Black Knight." LATCH:
A journal for the study of the Literary Artifact in Theory, Culture, or History
1 (Nov 2008): 134-155.
"Me
and Margery Kempe." Wild Violet (2008).
"Grimma Gaest." Human
Cuisine. Eds. Ken Albala
and Gary Allen. New York: Book Surge, 2008. 209-213.
"Up
on the Roof: Understanding an
Anglo-Saxon Healing Practice." Societas Magica Newsletter
18 (Fall 2007): 1-8.
"Domus inferna Sancti Guthlaci: A
Rediscovery of the Twelfth-Century Narrative of The Saint and the Money Pit." The Interplanetary Journal of Comic Arts: A Festschrift in Honor of
John Lent. Ed. Michael G.
Rhode. Washington DC: JLME, 2007.
13-27.
"Roses, Beads and Bones: Gender, Borders and Slippage
in Tove Jansson's Moomin Comics." Tove Jansson: A Collection of Critical Essays. Eds. Kate McLoughlin
and Malin Lidström Brock.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 166-183.
"The
Virgin Victim: Re-imagining a
medieval folk ballad in The Virgin Spring
and Last House on the Left." Folklore/Cinema: Popular Film as Vernacular
Culture. Eds. Sharon R. Sherman and Mikel J. Koven. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2007. 180-196.
"Imagineer: Clive Barker's
Queering of the Conservative Bent of Horror Literature." Horrifying
Sex: Sexual Difference and the Sexual Other in the Gothic Imagination. Ed. Ruth Bienstock
Anolik. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007. 248-258.
"The Sorcerer." Icons of Horror and the Supernatural.
Ed. S. T. Joshi. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006. 565-589.
"Living
the Mystery: Sacred Drama
Today." The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic 3 (2006): 263-276.
"Reconciling
the Dominions: Brigit as Heroic Saint in the Bethu Brigte." Revising per reader comments from Modern Philology.
"Mr. Punch in Literary Space: Post-Apocalyptic
Performance Ritual in Riddley Walker." Puppetry International Magazine 19 (Spring and Summer 2006): 26-30.
"Picking
up the chalk again." Quiet
Mountain Essays 3.4 (Oct 2005).
"Illusory Adversaries?: Images of Female Power in Sandman: The Kindly Ones." The
Sandman Papers. Ed. Joe Sanders. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2006.
65-76.
"Clive
Barker" and "Books of Blood." Supernatural Literature
of the World: An Encyclopedia. Eds. S. T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 80-84, 138-139.
"Translating
Saint as (Vi)King: St. Olaf in the Heimskringla." Viator 35 (2004): 169-202.
"From SBIGs
to Mildred's Inverse Law of Trailers: Skewing the Narrative of Horror Fan
Consumption." Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fear.
Ed. Steffen Hantke. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2004. 173-190.
"Clive
Barker" and "Ramsey Campbell." Supernatural Fiction Writers. 2nd
edition. Ed. Richard Bleiler. Farmington Hills, MI: Scribners & Sons, 2003: 61-70, 177-188.
"Constructing
a 'Female Hero': Iconography in Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec." International Journal
of Comic Art 4.1 (2002): 163-169.
"False
Positives: The Katherine-Group Saints as Ambiguous Role Models." Magistra 7.2
(2001): 64-99.
"A High Steppin'
Filly: Effluent Juissance in Dame Darcy's Meatcake." Indy:
Spring 1998. Online (25 ms pp) Reprinted as "Dame Darcy
e os poderes da BD" in Quadrado 3:3 (2001): 46-52.
COLUMN
Weekly columnist on technology and
culture, BitchBuzz: Global
Women's Lifestyle Network. March 2009-present.
FICTION
"A Plea on Behalf of the Small Hat League." Humor.
The
State of Imagination 1 (Jan 2011): forthcoming.
The
Mangrove Legacy. Novel (as Kit
Marlowe). Tease Publishing,
Dec 2010.
"Panopticon? Yes,
please!" Humor. Polite Company (Nov
2010).
"Sex and How to Get It." Humour. Polite Company (Nov
2010).
"Fear and Loathing in Deptford." Short story. Women's League of Ale Drinkers
1 (Oct 2010): 29-40.
"High Plains Lazarus." Short story. Rotting Tales. Ed. Jessy
Marie Roberts. Pill Hill Press, 2010.
"The Big Splash." Novella (as
Kit Marlowe). Noble
Romance, 2010.
"The Last Ant." Humour. Wild
Violet 9.2 (2010).
Pelzmantel (revised & expanded edition).
Novel. Immanion Press, 2010.
"Touched by an Angel." Short story. Kalkion (June 2010).
"Lachrymae Draconis." Short story. Realms 2 (Spring 2010): 3-12.
"A Case of Dead Faces." Short story. Nocturnal
Illumination. Ed. Kerry Morgan. Boston: Pagan
Imagination, 2010. 73-84.
"Rothko Red." Flash fiction. FinNALA Newsletter 3.2 (Aug 2009): 6-7.
"Wixey." Short story. Wild
Violet 8.1 (2009).
Unikirja
[Dreambook]. Short
story collection (+ play). Aino Press 2009.
"Kantele." Short story. Kippis 1.1 (Winter 2009): 41-50.
"The Princess and Her Pig." Poem. New
Fairy Tales 1 (October 2008): 18-19.
Book.
Play. Mused 2.3 (September 2008).
"Fluorescence." Short story. The Harrow 11.7 (July 2008).
"Eating the Dream." Short story. Femspec 8.1
(2008): 108-117.
Bell.
Play. Mused 2.1 (March 2008).
Jane
Quiet.
Comic book. Crazy
Mama Productions (March 2008). Issue #1.
"Raising Lempi." Short
story. Circle 100 (Winter 2007):
31-33.
"Tangled up in Some Sort of Cerulean Hue." Short
story. Ephemera 3 (December 2007): 49-52.
"Corrections to the Rules of Fimble
Fowl (for 3 players or 4)."
Humor. Wild Violet 6.2 (2007).
"Palakainen." Short story. New World Finn 7.2
(2007): 4-6.
Con-Eire.
Play. Premiered at Trinoc-con, Raleigh, NC, July 2006. Available via Lulu.
Fiasco.
Play. Presented in workshop reading by UHD English Department, October 2005.
"Vipunen." Short story. New World Finn 6.3
(July-Sept 2005): 22-24. Reprinted in Mythic
Passages (July 2007).
"On Buffalo Bayou." Short story. New Texas (2005): 92-108.
"Sun Thief." Short story. Marion Zimmer Bradley's
Sword and Sorceress XXI. New York: DAW Books, 2004. 133-142.
"Songs of Defiance." Poem. Bayou Review Spring 2006. 53-4.
"Kerttu."
Short story. New World Finn 4.2 (April-June 2004):
7-9.
Pelzmantel: A
Medieval Tale. Novel. Niceville FL: Spilled Candy Books,
2003. Nominated for 2003 Aesop Prize, International Reading Association
Children's Book Award.
"Wordgeryne."
Short story. Lovecraft's Weird Mysteries 5 (May
2002): 42-46.
"Sinikka Journeys North." Short story. The Beltane Papers 25 (2001):
14-19. Reprinted in Mythic Passages
(February/March 2004).
"Walpurgisnacht." Short story. The Seeker Journal
13.5 (2001): 6-9.
"A Gift
House." Short story. Masters of Terror's House of Horror (April 1998). Online.
"The Eleventh Commandment." Short story. Rictus 9 (1997).
Online.
"Another
Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale About Obsession." Short story. Dream
Forge (November 1996). Online.
"Revelation." Short story. The
Official Clive Barker Page, Online, www.clivebarker.com. Winner, MGM/United Artists/Clive
Barker's Lord of Illusions Short
Story Contest, November 1995.
REVIEWS
King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes. Book review. Femspec 10.2 (Dec 2010):
98-99.
Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy by
Robin Anne Reid, ed. Book review. Femspec 10.2 (Dec 2010):
100-102.
Women and the Divine: Touching
Transcendence by Gillian Howie and J'annine Jobling, eds. Book review. Femspec 10.2 (Dec 2010): 103-105.
Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre,
and the Limits of Epic Masculinity by Sara S. Poor and Jana K. Schulman, eds. Book review. The
Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (Fall 2010): 256-258.
Faust:
My Soul Be Damned for the World by E. A. Bucchianeri.
Book review. Journal
of Folklore Research (Mar 2010).
Deleuze
and Horror
by Anna Powell. Book review. Journal of the Fantastic in
the Arts 19.1 (2009): 119-122.
"Vampires in
Lapland." DVD Review. Up Against the Wall 11 (Feb/Mar
2008).
Monsters
of our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear by Marina Warner. Book
review. Journal
of Folklore Research (Jan 2008).
Moomin:
The Complete Tove Jansson
Comic Strip, Vol. 2,
by Tove Jansson. Book
review. New World Finn 7.4 (Winter 2007): 25.
The
Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer. DVD review. Up Against the Wall 10 (December
2007).
The Mindscape of Alan Moore. DVD review. Up Against the Wall 10 (December
2007).
The
Magical Self: Body, Society and the Supernatural in Early Modern Rural Finland by Laura Stark. Book Review. Journal of Folklore Research (Sept
2007).
"Jodorowsky
Box." DVD Review. Up Against the Wall 8 (September
2007).
Moomin
Book One: The Complete Tove Jansson
Comic Strip by
Tove Jansson.
Book Review. International
Journal of Comic Art 9.1 (2007): 710-11.
Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot. Book Review. Up Against the Wall 7 (June 2007).
"Fun with
Sledgehammers or in Search of the Sampo." DVD Review [Jade Warrior]. Up Against the Wall 6 (April 2007).
"Standing on the
Beach: Terry Gilliam's Tideland." DVD Review. Up Against the Wall 6 (April 2007).
"Boskone
44: or Life as a Small Press Author at a Big Con." Con Review. IROSF 4.3 (March 2007).
How
Very Interesting: Peter Cook's Universe and All that Surrounds It by Paul Hamilton, Peter
Gordon and Dan Kieran. Book
Review. Up Against the Wall 4 (Dec 2006).
Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft by Michael D. Bailey. Book Review. Journal
for the Academic Study of Magic 3 (2006): 321-323.
Meet
the Beatles
by Steven D. Stark. Book Review. Journal
of Popular Culture 39.3 (2006): 504-505.
Anglo-Saxon Propaganda in the Bayeux
Tapestry by
Meredith Clermont-Ferrand. Book Review. English
Language Notes 43.3 (2005): 84-89.
Troll:
A Love Story
by Johanna Sinisalo. Book review. New World Finn 5.3 (July-September
2004): 26.
Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael
Niemi. Book
review. New World Finn 5.2
(April-June 2004): 26.
"Japanese Magic: The Girl-Friendly Films of Hayao Miyazaki." With Wendy Goldberg. Film review. Femspec
5.2 (2005): 142-3.
Coldheart
Canyon by
Clive Barker. Book review. The Beltane Papers 27 (2002): 54-55.
The
Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe by Chip Rowe. Book review.
Other Voices 1.2 (1998). Online.
"Against
the Water-Elf Disease (Wiþ Water-Ælf
Adle)."
Translation. The Bayou Review Fall 2003: 28.
"Anglo-Saxon Charm Against a Wen." Dual-text translation. The
Seeker Journal 13.5 (2001): 12-13.
"Against
a Swarm of Bees: An Anglo-Saxon Charm." Dual-text translation. The Seeker Journal
13.3 (2001): 11.
"Erce: Earth
Goddess—An Anglo-Saxon Charm." Dual-text translation. Avalon Rising 1.3 (1999):
14-15. Reprinted as "Erce: Earth
Goddess." The Seeker Journal
13.2 (2001): 18-19. Reprinted as
"Erce: Earth Goddess." The Pagan's Muse. Ed. Jane Raeburn. New York: Citadel Press, 2003: 80-82.
"Rite
Here: Ritual, Performance and the Magick of
Place." Magus: Transdisciplinary Approaches to
the Work of Alan Moore, University of Northampton, May
28-29, 2010.
“A
Bigger, Better Beowulf: Masculinity & Medieval Film.” 40th
Annual Popular Culture Association Conference, St. Louis MO, March 31-April 3,
2010.
"Poe
and 'Palakainen'" (reading). Poe and the Writers
of New England, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. October 29-31, 2009.
"Revising Masculiinity in Beowulf. " Studies
in Medievalism Conference, Siena College. October 8-10, 2009.
"Harry
Potter and Medieval Magic." Sterup Medieval
Festival. September 12, 2009.
"140
Characters: Narrative and New Media." Great Writing Conference, University of
Bangor. June 19-21,2009.
"Avast Land Lubbers!: Reading Lost Girls as Post-Sadeian
Text." Angela Carter: A Critical Exploration, University of Northampton.
June 5-6, 2009.
Organizer
and presider, "Teaching Medieval Texts with
Popular Culture" sponsored by the Medieval Popular Culture Area, Popular
Culture Association. 44th International Congress
on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 7-10, 2009.
Organizer and presider, Medieval
Popular Culture panels. 39th Annual Popular Culture Association
Conference, New Orleans LA, April 8-11, 2009.
Organizer
and presider, "Medieval Masculinities on
Film" sponsored by the Medieval Popular Culture Area, Popular Culture Association.
43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, MI. May 8-11,
2008.
"'We'll
Have to Invent a New Language': Medievalism and Gender Construction in Moira Buffini's Silence."
Bone Dreams Conference, University of Oxford. April 26, 2008.
Guest
speaker. RELG 250, Women and Religion (Honors), Religious Studies Department,
Siena College. April 11, 2008.
Panelist,
"The World of Tolkien." William K. Sanford Town
Library, Colonie, NY. April 1, 2008.
"Phror, becadom, sissirishic and huwf: Alan
Moore writes without some pictures." 38th Annual Popular
Culture Association Conference, San Francisco, CA. March 19-22, 2008.
Guest
speaker. SSP 100.36, Myth Conceptions, Classics Department,
Skidmore College. November 8, 2007.
"Heofen rece swealg :
Neomedievalism and Spectacle in Grendel: Transcendence of The Great Big Bad." 22nd
Annual Conference on Medievalism, London, ON. October 4-6, 2007.
"Domus Inferna Sancti Guthlaci: A Rediscovery of the Twelfth-Century
Narrative of The Saint and the Money Pit." 42nd
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 10-13, 2007.
"Medieval
Community: Lessons from The Black Knight." 42nd
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 10-13, 2007.
"Finnish
Charms: Appropriating Folk Magic from the
Kalevala and
Kanteletar." Forging Folklore Conference,
Harvard University. May 3-5, 2007.
"Pissing,
Shagging and Roaring: Performing
Masculinity in Beowulf and Grendel."
37th Annual Popular Culture Association
Conference, Boston MA. April 4-7, 2007.
"Roses,
Beads and Bones: Gender, Borders and Slippage in Tove
Jansson's Moomin
Comics." Tove
Jansson Conference, Oxford, England. March 24, 2007.
"Sorceress and Anchoress: Visualizing
the Lives of Medieval Women." 41st International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 3-7, 2006.
Panelist,
"Writing the Middle Ages for Young Readers: A Roundtable." 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, MI. May 3-7,
2006.
"'Half
a Giant': Performing 'Green' Masculinity in Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight." 36th Annual Popular Culture
Association Conference, Atlanta GA. April 12-16,2006.
"Joy
of Warriors: Juliana's Masculine
Ecstasies." Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, Cambridge, England. January 6-8, 2006.
"'I
would like to have him as my friend':
Masculinizing the Conversion in Njal's saga." Modern Language Association Conference, Washington D.
C. December 27-30, 2005.
"The Body
of the Earth in Anglo-Saxon Charms: An Eco-critical
Perspective." Texas Medieval Association Conference,
Houston, TX. October 14-16,
2005.
"How to Cure Elf-shot and Fend off a Wen." The
Witching Hour: Harry Potter Symposium, Salem, MA. October 6-10, 2005.
"A Dozen or So Weird (but true!) Facts about the Middle
Ages." Trinoc-Con, Raleigh, NC. July 15-17, 2005.
"Casting the Circle: Ritual and the Body of the
Goddess." The
Conference on Women and the Divine, Liverpool, England. June 17-19, 2005.
"You do not have the right to remain silent: Women and
Magic in the Corrector et
medicus of Burchard of
Worms." 40th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 5-8, 2005
"Imagineer: Clive Barker's
Queering of the Conservative Bent of Horror Literature." 2005 NEMLA Convention, Cambridge, MA. March 31-April 2, 2005.
"The City as the Body of the Poet: William
Blake's London in Alan Moore's Angel
Passage. 35th Annual Popular Culture
Association, San Diego, CA.
March 23-26, 2005.
Organizer, Medieval Popular Culture
Area. 35th Annual Popular Culture Association, San Diego, CA. March 23-26, 2005.
"Blood Feasts and Roof Riding: Women as Witches in
Anglo-Saxon England." 2004 South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Roanoke, VA.
November 12-14, 2004.
Co-Organizer. Thinking About Teaching: Approaches to General
Education and the Core Curriculum, UHD, Houston, TX. October 1, 2004.
Public Relations Assistant/Academic
Liaison. Mythic Journeys, Atlanta, GA. June 3-6, 2004.
"'Viþ wif
gemædlan':
Women as Witches in Anglo-Saxon England." 39th International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.
May 6-9, 2004.
"Medieval
Research Without Tears." Fantastic Genres, New Paltz, NY.
April 30-May 2, 2004.
Organizer,
Medieval Popular Culture Area.
34th Annual Popular Culture Association,
San Antonio, TX. April
7-10, 2004.
"Alas,
Comitatus!: Writing about Medieval Texts in
Sophomore Lit." Sharing
Voices: Second Annual Conference on Teaching and Writing, Houston, TX. February 27, 2004.
"Smokescreens: Transparent Disguises, Fog and Smoke in
the Fóstbrœ∂ra saga." 38th International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.
May 7-11, 2003.
Organizer,
Medieval Popular Culture Area.
33rd Annual Popular Culture Association, New
Orleans, LA. April 16-19,
2003.
"Living
the Mystery: Sacred Drama Today."
33rd Annual Popular Culture Association,
New Orleans, LA. April
16-19, 2003.
"Inevitable
Enmity." Invited speaker,
NEH-sponsored Symposium on The Book of
Kings, Walters Art Museum, October 2002.
"'It
is a trifling matter for God, my lord':
St. Óláf's Practical Magic in the Heimskringla." 37th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 2-5, 2002.
"Translating
Saint as (Vi)king: St. Óláfr
in the Heimskringla." 36th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 3-6, 2001.
"Construction
of a 'Female Hero': Iconography in
Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec." 31st
Annual Popular Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA. April 11-14, 2001.
"'Most
Foul, Strange, and Unnatural': Shakespeare's Hamlet as Gothic Touchstone." 30th Annual Popular Culture
Association, New Orleans, LA.
April 19-22, 2000.
"Reconciling
the Dominions: Brigit as Heroic Saint in the Bethu Brigte." 34th International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI.
May 6-9, 1999.
Panelist.
Technology and Pedagogy Workshop and Roundtable Discussion: "Viking
Studies: An Interdisciplinary and Interactive Seminar on the Language,
Literature, History, and Culture of Medieval Scandinavia." 34th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 6-9, 1999.
"Fairy
Tales Told and Retold: Jeff Smith's Bone
and Linda Medley's Castle Waiting." 28th
Annual Popular Culture Association, Orlando FL. April 1998.
"'Our Dreams Are
Tales': Female Comics Artists Reveal Their Sleeping Stories." International Comics
and Animation Festival, Washington, D.C. September 1997.
Panel
Organizer. "Saint
Margaret." 32nd
Annual Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. May 1997.
Panel
Organizer. "Virgin Saints and
Cultural Hegemony." 32nd Annual Conference on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University.
May 1997.
Co-Coordinator,
15th Annual Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference, University
of Connecticut. April 1997.
"'A
High Steppin' Filly': Effluent Jouissance
in Dame Darcy's Meat Cake." 27th Popular Culture Conference, San
Antonio. March 1997.
"'For
the grure þaet grap hire': Horrific Imagery in the Katherine Group
Texts." 31st Annual Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University. May 1996.
"Illusory
Adversaries?: Images of Female Power in Sandman: The Kindly Ones." 26th
Popular Culture Conference, Las Vegas. March 1996.
"False
Positives: The Katherine-Group Saints as Ambiguous Role Models." 30th
Annual Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. May 1995.
"Evil
Rival: Mebd in The
Táin."
12th Annual Medieval Studies Graduate
Student Conference, University of Connecticut. April 1994.
"'Truth'
and 'Gentillesse' in the 'Former Age': Chaucer's Franklin's Tale." 15th
Medieval Conference, Plymouth State College. April 1994.
Old
and Middle English Language, Literature and Culture; Old Norse Language,
Literature and Culture; Comparative Mythology; Magic in History; Folklore;
Women Writers; Feminist Studies; Popular Culture; Cultural Studies; Creative
Writing; Film; Comics; Visual Information and Media Literacy
Old
English, Middle English, Old Icelandic, Modern Swedish, Gothic, Old High
German, Middle High German, Modern German, Old Irish, Latin
PERFORMANCES
"Runo
46: The Bear." With Minna Popkin. Kalevala Day, Finnish-American
Heritage Society, Canterbury, CT, February 25, 2007.
"Our
Favorite Things." Collegium Mysterium (playing kantele, percussion).
Houston, TX, May 2006.
"Calling
on the Mythic Muse." Words and Music Workshop, Writers' Colony at Dairy
Hollow, Eureka Springs, AR, May 2005.
"Iberian Treasures
III." Collegium Mysterium (playing kantele
[Finnish harp]). Houston, TX, February 2003.
"Light of the
Nations." CitySingers of Hartford (as
reader). Manchester & Bristol,
CT, March 2002.
"Magic & the
Creation of the Kantele." Louhi's Daughters. Kalevala Day, Finnish-American Heritage Society,
Canterbury, CT, February 2002.
"Music
and Magic of The Kalevala."
Louhi's
Daughters. Finn Fest,
Philadelphia PA, July 2001.
"Creation
of the Kantele." With Minna Popkin. Midsummer Festival, Saima
Park, MA, June 2001.
"Kantele Trio."
Louhi's Daughters.
Midsummer, Connecticut Audubon Society, Glastonbury, CT, June 2001.
"Music
and Magic of The Kalevala." Louhi's Daughters. Kalevala Day, Finnish-American Heritage Society,
Canterbury, CT, March 2001.
"Anglo-Saxon
Yule." Winter Solstice,
Connecticut Audubon Society, Glastonbury, CT, December 2000.
"Väinämöinen and Aino." Louhi's Daughters. Kalevala Day, Finnish-American Heritage Society,
Canterbury, CT, February 2000.
ACADEMIC
SERVICE
National
Area Chair, Medieval Popular Culture Area, Popular Culture Association,
2002-present.
Member,
Editorial Advisory Board, Femspec, 2007-present
Member, Editorial Board, International
Journal of Comic Art, 1998-present.
Coordinator,
Women's & Gender Studies, CSR Summer 2009-present; Member, Women's Studies
Steering Committee, CSR 2006-present.
Co-sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta, CSR 2008-present.
Member,
English Department Graduate Committee, CSR 2006-present
Member, English Department Events Committee, CSR 2006-2008.
Producer/Presenter,
Prose at the Rose (radio program),
CSR 2007-present.
Assessment
Working Group for the Middle States Periodic Review Reports, CSR 2008-2009
Security
Advisory Committee, CSR 2008-present
PhD Dissertation examiner, Sean Christopher McMullen, School
of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, 2008.
PhD
Dissertation committee member, Laurel Lacroix,
English Department, University of Houston, 2006.
Faculty Advisor, Bayou Review Literary Magazine, UHD, 2003-2006.
Coordinator, Women's Month, UHD,
2002-2006.
Member, General Education University
Committee, UHD, 2003-2006.
Ex Officio Member, Student Publications Committee,
2003-2006.
Member, Scholarships for Future
Students University Committee, UHD, 2003-2006.
Member, Art Acquisition University
Committee, UHD, 2003-2006.
Member, English Curriculum Committee,
UHD, 2003-2006.
Member, Composition/1302 Committee,
UHD, 2002-2006.
Member, Post-Colonial & Modern British Literature Search
Committees, UHD, 2002-2003.
Freshman English Orientation Committee, UConn,
Summer 2001.
Workshop
Leader for the Freshman English Storrs Workshop, UConn,
April 2001.
Workshop
Leader for the Freshman English Stamford Workshop, UConn,
March 2001.
Workshop:
"Putting Course Materials for Teaching on the Internet." UConn, Spring 2000; Fall 2000.
Assistant, London Study Abroad Program, UConn,
Fall 1999.
Web Manager, Medieval Studies Program, UConn,
1995-1999.
Co-Coordinator, 15th Annual Medieval Studies Graduate Student
Conference, UConn, April 1997.
Mentor for New Instructors, Freshman
English, UConn, 1996-2001.
Editor, Medieval Studies Newsletter, UConn, 1994-1995.
Research Assistant for Professor C. David Benson, Spring 1994.
Co-ordinator,
Faculty Affairs, Harvard Medical School, 1990-1993.
Assistant, Registrar's Office, Harvard
School of Public Health, 1988-1990.
Graduate Affairs Advisor, Chemistry
Department, University of Southern California, 1985-1988.
AWARDS
AND HONORS
2009 Professional Development Grant, Reassigned Time Grant,
The College of Saint Rose
2007 Scholars and Artists Grant, The College of Saint Rose
2006 Finlandia Foundation Grant
2005 UHD Faculty Scholarship/Creativity Award
2005 Eureka Short Story Fellowship
Nominee, 2005 UHD Teaching Award
Nominee, Aesop Prize of the Children's Folklore Section of
the American Folklore Society 2003
Nominee, International Reading Association Children's Book
Award 2003
Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Medieval Studies Program,
1993—2002.
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship,
Graduate School, University of Connecticut, 1999.
Winner, MGM/United Artists/Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions Short Story Contest,
November 1995.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Phi Kappa Phi
Sigma Tau Delta (Beta Phi)
Modern Language Association
Old Norse Language and Literature
Discussion Group, Executive Committee
National
Popular Culture Association
National Area Chair—Medieval
Popular Culture
Mythic Imagination Institute
Education Committee
Societas Magica
Member
Newsletter
Editor (2007-present)