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Cara Baummer

cara.baummer@uconn.edu

Cara is a M.A. student.

Jeremy DeAngelo

jeremy.deangelo@uconn.edu

Jeremy is a M.A. student.

Brandon is a M.A. student with interests in Old English and Old Norse literature and languages.  He holds a B.A. in English from Houghton College.  His work has been published in Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (4th ed.), and he has presented papers on the concept of Fate in Anglo-Saxon poetry, the role of Beowulf in educational curriculum, and laughter in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.

Erin Heidkamp

eheidkamp@hotmail.com

Erin is a Ph.D. student with research interests in medieval environmental history, German history (the Rhineland, in particular), German literature (Nibelungenlied, Edda), languages (Middle High German and Old Norse), and the Sagas. Erin holds a B.A. degree in Environmental Studies, Conservation and Restoration from Sonoma State University and a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn.  

Wendy Hoofnagle

wendy.hoofnagle@uconn.edu

Wendy is a Ph.D. student with research interests in 12th-13th century English and French vernacular literature. She has a B.A. in English from Potsdam College and a M.A. in Comparative Literature from SUNY Binghamton. The current title of her dissertation is “Lawgivers and Peacemakers: Imagining Courtly Kingship and Early English Hybridity.”  She has several entries published in The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary (ed. Clayton J. Drees, 2001). Wendy is, at present, co-editing a book entitled Otherness and Othering: The Hybridization of Insular Mythology and Identity that is forthcoming in 2008.  Her article, “Charlemagne and the Via Regia: The Impact of the King’s Peace on Anglo-Norman Hybridity,” is forthcoming in 2007 in The Legend of Charlemagne in the Early Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade.  She also has several entries forthcoming in 2007 in the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, including ones on“Adela of Louvain,” “Baldwin of Canterbury,” “Ralph of Diceto,” “Earldom of Gloucester,” “Gilbert Foliot,” “Isabella of Angoulême,” “Battles of Lincoln (1141, 1217),” “Matilda of Boulogne,” “Robert Earl of Gloucester,” and “Battle of the Standard.”

Melissa Lalli

Melissa is a M.A. student.

Frederic Lardinois

frederic@lardinois.net

Frederic is a Ph.D. student.

Pamela is a M.A. student.

Andrew Maines

agm99001@uconnvm.uconn.edu

Andrew is a Ph.D. student.

Soren Olghrig-Kerrin Marra

Soren is a M.A. student.

Sean is a M.A. student.

Katherine K. O'Sullivan

Katherine.O'Sullivan@uconn.edu

Katherine (Kate) is a Ph.D. student with a major area in Medieval English Literature and minor areas in Theology and History. Her areas of interest include: late Middle English literature (Langland, Gowe, Lydgate, Chaucer), spirituality, mysticism, Lollardy, and medieval philosophy. Her dissertation addresses tears and sorrow in Langland's Piers Plowman. She has a forthcoming article in Mediaevalia entitled, "John Lydgate's Lyf of Our Lady: Translation and Authority in Fifteenth-Century England." Kate is also the Associate Editor of Mystics Quarterly.  

Mark Pearsall

mpearsall281@earthlink.net

Mark is a Ph.D. student with research interests in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Roman Spain, classical philosophy, and early Christianity. He holds a B.A. in Latin and Greek from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a M.A.T. in Latin and Classical Humanities from Boston University. Mark also attended Arcadia University in Athens, Saint Louis University in Madrid, and the Classical Summer Program at the American Academy in Rome. For ten years he has taught high school Latin in Glastonbury, CT, and he has served as the president of ClassConn. Mark recently received a CBE grant for research on Mediterranean history and an NEH grant for the summer institute "Project Sol."

Andrew Pfrenger

apfrenger@yahoo.com

Andrew is a Ph.D. student with research interests in Anglo-Saxon literature & language (esp. kinship and law), Old Norse, Piers Plowman, and medieval drama. He has a B.A. in English from Florida State University and a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn. Andrew also served in the Peace Corps in the Russian Far East.

Britt Rothauser

britt.rothauser@uconn.edu

Laura Shafer

Laura is a M.A. student.

Kisha Tracy

aquitaine1980@yahoo.com

Kisha is a Ph.D. student. She holds a B.A. in English from the University of Evansville and a M.A. in Medieval Studies from UConn. Her main interests are Middle English and French literature; her current dissertation title is “Writing Memory: Reinvention and the Tradition of Confession in Middle English Literature.” Kisha has an article published in L’Esplumeoir (Societe Internationale des Amis de Merlin) entitled “Un Héritage vertueux: présence, capacités, et caractère de la mère de Merlin.”  Her article “Character Memory and Reinvention of the Past in Béroul’s Roman de Tristan” recently appeared in the 2006 issue of Tristania.  In addition, she presented at the London Chaucer Conference in April 2007 with a project entitled “Sins of the Past: Chaucer and the Temporality of Confession.” She is also currently the Program Assistant for the Medieval Studies Program.

Jeanette is a Ph.D. student.