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CONFERENCE PAPERS AND LECTURES
“Ubi sunt: Women Visionaries in Medieval Britain’. Medieval Academy of America meeting , Chicago, IL. March 2009.
“Mr and Mrs Kempe: Portrait of a Marriage.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Tempe, AZ. February 2008.
“Tudor Torsos: Reading Reproduction in Philippa Gregory’s Novels.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference, Tempe, AZ. February 2007
“Who’s Writing Now? Issues of Authorship in Women’s Mystical Writing.” Tasks and Themes in the Study of Late Medieval and Early Modern Religion IV. June 3, 2005. Cambridge, England.
“Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Margery Kempe as Underground Preacher.” Association for the Study of Church History/American Historical Association Conference, Seattle, WA, January 7-10, 2005.
“Birgitta of Sweden: the Woman and her Words”. Invited lecture for Women and the Word: Gender and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, DePaul University, Chicago, Feb. 11 -13, 2004.
“A Marriage Made for Heaven: the Vies Occitanes of Elzear of Sabran and Delphine of Puimichel.” Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, San Diego, CA., March 22-3, 2002.
“Family as Pagans in the Vies Occitanes of Elzear of Sabran and Delphine of Puimichel.” Framing the Family: Representation and Narrative in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods, Tempe, AZ., March 2-3, 2002
“Visions of My Youth: Representations of the Childhood of Medieval Women Visionaries.” Medieval Women at the Millennium Colloquium, York, England, July 2000
“The Celestial Court: Aspects of Courtly Literature in Medieval Visionary Writing.” Session organizer, Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, Santa Fe, NM, October 1999
“Drinking from the Golden Cup: Courtly Ritual and Order in the Liber specialis gratiae of Mechtild of Hackeborn.” Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, Santa Fe, NM, October 1999
“Modelling Mysticism: Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1999.
“Learning to be a Visionary: the Transmission of Mystical Knowledge in The Book of Margery Kempe and the Revelaciones of Bridget of Sweden.” European Research Conference on Women in the Christian Tradition, Seefeld, Austria, October 1998.
“Drinking from the Golden Cup: Courtly Ritual and Order in the Liber specialis gratiae of Mechtild of Hackeborn.” International Courtly Literature Society Congress, Vancouver, Canada, July 1998.
“The Court of Heaven in Medieval Visionary Literature.” Session organizer, International Courtly Literature Society Congress, Vancouver, Canada, July 1998.
“Rewriting the Letter: Variations in the Middle English Translation of the Epistola ad Reges of Alfonso of Jaén.” International Conference on the Translation of St. Birgitta of Sweden’s Works into the European Vernaculars, Beverley, England, July 1997.
“Vision, Gender, Time: Four Medieval Visionaries.” Camargo Foundation Fellows’ Lecture, Cassis, France, January 1997.
Round Table Organizer and Chair, Conference on New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The European Impact of the Holy Women of LiPge, LiPge, Belgium, December 1996.
“Crowned a Queen in Heaven: Coronation and Ritual in Pearl and in the Chronicles of Richard II.” Invited lecture for the London Society for Medieval Studies, November 1996.
“Words of Flame and Moving Cloud: The Articulation Debate in the Revelations of Medieval Women Visionaries.” Conference on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, Göttingen, Germany, July 1996.
“Women Writing the Vision.” Chair, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 1996.
“I Did It My Way: Evasion, Avoidance and Outright Disobedience in the Presentation of Medieval Women Visionaries.” Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, York, January 1996.
“Visions of Medieval Motherhood: Margery Kempe and Glűckel of Hameln.” Invited lecture for the Oxford Branch of WIZO, December 1995.
“An Eternity of Mills and Boon: The Construction of Women in Medieval Vision and Modern Romance.” Romance and Roses Conference, Liverpool, November 1995.
“Richard Rolle and Female Affective Piety.” Invited lecture for the University of Tűrku, Finland, Medieval Studies Seminar, University of York, November 1995.
Round Table participant, European Science Foundation Conference on Women in the Christian Tradition, Strasbourg, France, October 1995.
“Out of the Mouths of Babes: Authority in Pearl and the Chronicles of Richard II.” Youth in the Middle Ages Conference, University of York, April 1995.
“Beholding Men's Members: The Sexualizing of Transgression in The Book of Margery Kempe” (revised version). Medieval Theology and the Natural Body Conference, University of York, March 1995.
“All Girls Together: Community, Gender and the Visionaries of Helfta.” Gender in Medieval Studies Conference, Greggynog, Wales, January 1995.
“Waiting in the Text: Positioning Women in Modern Romance Fiction and Medieval Vision.” Invited Lecture for Rhodes College Department of English, Memphis, Tennessee, February 1995.
“Continental Holy Women in Medieval England: Influences and Representations.” Session Organizer and Chair, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 1994.
“Beholding Men's Members: The Sexualizing of Transgression in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, University of Leeds, January 1994.
“God's Almighty Hand: Women Co-Writing the Book.” Women and the Book in the Middle Ages Conference, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, August, 1993.
“Women's Words, Men's Language: discretio spirituum as Discourse in the Writing of Medieval Women Visionaries.” The Fourth Cardiff Conference on the Art and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, Conques, France, July 1993.
“The Language of Love: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction”
(revised version). Lancaster University Women's Studies Conference, March 1993.
“Sex and the Single Nun: Medieval Erotic Vision and Modern Romance Fiction.” Invited Lecture for the York Medieval Society, May 1992.
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