University of Connecticut Medieval Studies

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John Albanese	John_Albanese@baruch.cuny.edu
John Albanese graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 1990 and an M.A. in Philosophy from UConn in 1988. He has been the Director of the Full-Time Honors MBA Program at Baruch College, City University of New York since January 2004. John has been living in New York City for over 6 years, having worked with Doctors Without Borders and Gay Men's Health Crisis. From 1990 to 1996 he held positions in the College of Business Administration and the Office of Continuing Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Sherri L. Brouillette	Sherri.Brouillette@Millersville.edu
Sherri Brouillette graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn. She then earned a M.A. in Applied Linguistics from Texas Tech University and taught English Composition at Texas Tech for three years. She is currently a Professor in the Department of English at Millersville University in Pennsylvania.
Christine F. Cooper	ccooper@english.usu.edu
ChristineF.Cooper graduated with a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2004. After she graduated, Christine received a position as Assistant Professor of English (officially, "British Literature Pre-1500") and member of the Religious Studies Program at Utah State University in Logan, UT. While teaching at Utah State, Christine is working on later medieval hagiographic literature (a project on miracles of literacy, language, and translation) as well as 14-15th century English literature.
Christopher Cottrell	cmc97003@yahoo.com
Chris Cottrell graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2004. He is currently a secondary school teacher in Latin and history.
Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby	coulsongrigsbyc@centenarycollege.edu
Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby graduated with her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies in 2006; her dissertation was entitled "Wormys mete is his body: Embodying the Diseased Spirit of Herod the Great on the Late Medieval English Stage." She holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Santa Clara University and a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Humanities at Centenary College in New Jersey, where she teaches courses in medieval culture and dramatic history.

Erin Donovan	ekdonova@uiuc.edu
Erin Donovan graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2003. She is currently a Doctoral Student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Art History. Erin also participates in the interdisciplinary Medieval Studies program. Her major field of study is Gothic Art and Architecture with a focus on manuscript studies, and her minor field is in Islamic Art and Architecture from the 7th-15th centuries. Erin hopes to write her dissertation on a fifteenth century Flemish illustated manuscript of William of Tyre's History of Outremer. Along with teaching, she is working at the Krannert Art Museum researching the medieval collection and hoping to find a career as a museum curator.
Joshua Eyler	jeyler42@hotmail.com
Josh Eyler graudated with a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2006. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. Josh's dissertation was entitled "Conditioning the Soul: Spiritual Athleticism in Medieval English Theology and Literature."

Christopher Fee	cfee@gettysburg.edu
Chris Fee graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 1995. Currently, Chris is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. He is a specialist in Old English language and literature, with additional teaching and research interests in the History of English, Middle English, Medieval Drama, Old Norse, British, Medieval and Indo-European Mythology, theories of torture, pain, and the body as text, and technology and pedagogy. Chris has published several articles, has given conference presentations on many different topics, and has one book out, one in process, and one under contract. Gods, Heroes, and Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain, written with David Leeming, was published by Oxford in 2001; the paperback was issued in March 2004. Torture and Text in Anglo-Saxon England: The Poetics of Pain is forthcoming from Florida in the course of 2006. Mythology in the Middle Ages, a volume in the Praeger series on the Middle Ages edited by Jane Chance, will be in print a couple of years later, most likely in early 2008. He is also at work on a collaborative multimedia project concerning the Anglo-Saxon Visionary Cross.
Sarah Girard
Sarah graduate with a M.A. in 2007. She has a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in French and German with a Medieval Studies concentration. Her areas of interest are Medieval languages (mostly Germanic and Celtic) and Medieval literature and legends. She is currently teaching Latin in a secondary school in Massachusetts.
Gregory Hays	masque79@hotmail.com
Greg Hays graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2004. After graduation, Greg traveled in Europe and worked in York, England; he is currently studying at the University of York.
M. Wendy Hennequin
Wendy Hennequin graduated with a Ph.D. in English with a concentration in medieval in 2005. She is, at present, working at Tennessee State University. Wendy's dissertation was entitled "Battle-Brave above Women-Kin: Women Warriors in Medieval English Literature," which considers how female warriors are constructed with both masculine and feminine traits and perform both as men and as women.

Frank Krajewski
Frank graduated with a M.A. in 2007. He has a B.A. in Greek and Latin from Connecticut College and a B.A in History from the University of Virginia. He has taught (briefly) at Hartford High School and Norwich Free Academy. His areas of interest are Byzantium, Later Latin, and Northern European vernacular literature in Old Irish and Old Norse.
Steve Lahey	slahey3@unl.edu
Steve Lahey graduated with a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 1996. Currently, Steve is a Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska. His areas of specialization are the history of philosophy and historical theology. Steve is an Episcopal priest serving two little parishes in rural Nebraska (St. Augustine's, DeWitt, and Trinity Memorial, Crete), and he is busy working on a book on Wyclif for Oxford's Great Medieval Thinkers series and translating Wyclif's Trialogus into English. Steve also won the 2007 John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America for his Philosophy and Politics in the Thought of John Wyclif (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Kate Laity	laityk@strose.edu
Kate Laity graduated with a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2003. At present, she is an Assistant Professor of English (Medieval) at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. Kate is a member of the Executive Committee of the Old Norse Language and Literature Discussion Group of MLA and national chair of the Medieval Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association.
Katharine Lawson	lit_happens@hotmail.com
Kate Lawson graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2005.
Bridget Hart Martin	abridgenamedhart@hotmail.com
Bridget Hart Martin graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2006.

Suzanne Paquette
Suzanne Paquette graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2005.
S. Elizabeth Passmore	epassmore@usi.edu
Betsy Passmore graduated with a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2005. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, where she teaches History of the English Language, Chaucer, and other medieval and university core courses. She was recently granted a Lilly Endowment summer fellowship to revise her dissertation, entitled “The Loathly Lady Transformed: A Literary and Cultural Analysis of the Medieval Irish and English Hag-Beauty Tales.” Betsy has published articles on the figure of Hunger in Piers Plowman and on the significance of medieval male writers writing about medieval women, and her forthcoming co-edited essay collection, The English Loathly Lady Tales: Boundaries, Traditions, Motifs (MIP, 2006), includes one of her own essays. Her research interests include medieval English romance, medieval Irish literature, and literary fairy tales.
Nadia Pawelchak	nadia.pawelchak@uconn.edu
Nadia Pawelchak graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2006.

Rebecca Perry	rebecca.m.perry@huskymail.uconn.edu
Rebecca Perry graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2006.

Andrea Rossi-Reder	andrea.rossi-reder@conncoll.edu
Andrea Rossi-Reder graduated with a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 1992. She is currently Interim Dean of Freshmen at Connecticut College in New London. After graduating from UConn, she taught at Albertson College and then at Baylor University. She has been directing the Writing Center at Connecticut College for the past three years, a position she plans to return to next year. Andrea wrote her dissertation at UConn under the direction of Fred Biggs on the Physiologus and beast lore in Anglo-Saxon England. Her most recent publication is "Embodying Christ; Embodying Nation: Aelfric's Saints Agatha and Lucy" in Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Robert E. Bjork, Carol Braun Pasternack, and Lisa M.C. Weston (M.R.T.S., 2005), pp. 183-202.
David Seaman	dseaman@clir.org
David Seaman graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 1986. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation, a consortium of 39 libraries and related agencies pioneering new digital technologies to extend their collections and services, and was founding director of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library from 1992-2002.
William. A. Senior	wsenior@broward.edu
William Senior graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 1977. After receiving his M.A., William went on to get a Ph.D. from Notre Dame in Medieval/Renaissance in 1982. He is now an Associate Professor in English at Broward Community College in Florida.
John P. Sexton	jsexton26@hotmail.com
John graduated with a Ph.D. in 2007. His dissertation was entitled “In the Saint’s Embrace: The Sanctuary Privilege in Medieval Religious Writing.” He holds a B.A. with a dual History and Literature concentration from Goddard College and a M.A. from the University of Connecticut. His research interests include Icelandic studies, Middle English and Early Modern literature, and religious history. His publications include an essay on the Knight's Tale, co-written with Joshua Eyler, which appeared in the summer 2006 issue of The Chaucer Review. He currently holds a position at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Charlotte Stanford	charlotte_stanford@byu.edu
Charlotte Stanford graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 1997. She then received her Ph.D. in Art History from The Pennsylvania State University in 2003. Charlotte is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University in Utah. Her main interests are gothic architecture and medieval devotional practices.
Dan Stokes	ddstokes@aol.com
Dan Stokes graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 2006. He is currently working on his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester.

Paul Victor	pauvict@uflib.ufl.edu
Paul Victor graduated with a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn in 1998. He is now an Assistant University Librarian focusing on reference and instruction in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Smathers Library at the University of Florida. He also offers research assistance and library instruction to University of Florida students and faculty in the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.