Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Department of English (1986)
Visiting Scholar, École des Hautes Études, Paris, Latin Seminar (summer, 1975)
Fulbright Scholar, Universität Tübingen (Germany), English and German Departments (1973–1974)
M.A. (English and Creative Writing) University of Chicago, Department of English (1972)
B.A. with Honors, University of Cincinnati (1970),
Major: English
Affiliated Faculty, Creative Writing Program, Arizona State University, Tempe, Spring Semester, 2016–present
Barrett Honors Faculty, Fall Semester, 2015–present
Member, Advisory Board, Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2015–2018
Sun Angel Excellence in the Humanities Research Award (with Rodmanned Nikpour), Arizona State University, Tempe, spring semester, 2015 ($1500)
Barrett Faculty Support Grant (Honors College, ASU) (with Rodmanned Nikpour), Arizona State University, Tempe, fall semester, 2014 ($1600), fall semester, 2013 ($2150)
CLAS Undergraduate Summer Enrichment Award, Arizona State University, Tempe, summer, 2014 ($2400)
Barrett Faculty Support Grant (Honors College, ASU) , Arizona State University, Tempe, fall semester, 2013 ($2150)
Lincoln Ethics Teaching Fellow, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University, Tempe, spring semester, 2013 ($4000)
Grant from The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (August, 2011), for the symposium, "Science, Ethics, and the Transformations of Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries," August, 2011 [co-director with Herbert L. Kessler] ($20,000)
Arizona State University
Seed Grant, "The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Pleasure and Danger in Perception," Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, November, 2007 [co-recipient, with C. Schleif] ($10,000)
Director, NEH Summer Seminars for College and University Teachers on "The Seven Deadly Sins as Cultural Constructions in the Middle Ages" at Darwin College, Cambridge University, July 17–August 18, 2006 ($94,432); at Darwin College, Cambridge University, July 12–August 13, 2004 ($74,773)
Distinguished Scholarship, Research or Creative Work or Activity Award, Trinity University, May, 2004
Visiting Distinguished Professor, Department of History, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, The Netherlands: spring, 2006; summer, 2002
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University , Cambridge, UK: September, 2000–August, 2001
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship: June, 2000–June, 2001
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation / American Council of Learned Societies, Senior Level Fellow: August, 1999–August, 2000
Fellow, National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, North Carolina), through the Lilly Endowment: September, 1999–May, 2000
NEH Summer Stipends: 1999, 1992
Visiting Fellow, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary): spring session, 1999
American Philosophical Society Research Grant: summer, 1995
Residence at Maison Suger, Paris: summer, 1995
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, St. Louis University: October, 1994
Trinity University
Research Travel Grants from the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft": 1989–1990, 1986–1987
Included in Who's Who in America: 2010 edition (2009); Who's Who Among America's Teachers: 8th ed. (2003–2004); Who's Who in the South and Southwest: 25th ed. (1997–1998), 24th ed. (1995–1996); Who's Who in the World: 13th ed. (1995–1996), 12th ed. (1994–1995), 11th ed. (1993–1994), 10th ed. (1992–1993)
Included in Dictionary of International Biography: 23rd ed. (1993–1994), 22nd ed. (1992–1993)
Third Prize, International Hans Christian Andersen Musical Competition, Odense, Denmark: 1980 (libretto)
University of Pennsylvania
Fulbright Full Student Grant to Germany: 1973–1974
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati
Early English
Text Society; International Arthurian Society, North American
Branch; International Medieval Sermon Studies Society; International
Piers Plowman Society; Medieval Academy of America; Modern Language Association of America; New Chaucer Society
Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2007–present
Visiting Professor, Department of English, Universität Graz, summer semester, 2012
Professor, Department of English, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, 1995–2007
Associate Professor, Department of English, Trinity University (San Antonio, TX), 1990–1995; tenured 1993
Assistant Professor ("Hochschulassistent"), Department of English, Universität Tübingen, Germany, 1986–1990
Faculty Research Associate, Department of English, Universität Tübingen, Germany, 1980–1986
Instructor and Research Coordinator, Department of English, Universität Augsburg, Germany, 1979–1980
Teaching Fellow, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, 1978–1979
Instructor, Department of English, Rutgers University, Camden Campus, College of Arts and Sciences, 1977–1979
Tutor for Middle English, Department of English, Universität Tübingen, Germany, 1975–1976
Instructor, Department of English, University of Cincinnati,
1971
Chair, By-Laws Committee, English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, 2014–2015
Chair, Budget and Personnel Committee, English Department, Arizona State University,
Tempe, fall semester, 2009–spring semester, 2010
Chair, Awards Committee, English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, 2007–2012
Organizer, Biennial ASU Chaucer Celebration, Arizona State University, Tempe, March 18, 2016; April 18, 2014 (co-organizer); March 30, 2012 (co-organizer); April 1–2, 2010 (co-organizer); April 3, 2009
Co-director, with C. Schleif, Symposium on "The Fve Senses in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Pleasure and Danger in Perception," Arizona State University, Tempe, January 23–24, 2009
Organizer, Medieval-Renaissance English Literature Faculty Seminar, Arizona State University, Fall, 2007–Spring, 2008
Chair, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Committee, Trinity
University, 1991–2007
Chair, Lecturers and Visiting Scholars Committee, Trinity University, 2002–2005, 1992–1994
Visiting Scholars Coordinator in the project, "Visiting
Scholars in North America," for the Committee on Centers
and Regional Associations of the The Medieval Academy of America,
1991–2004
President, Texas Medieval Association, 2001–2002
Director of series: "Lectures on Medieval Judaism at Trinity University," 1996–2000
Local Coordinator, Annual meeting of the Committee on Centers and Regional Associations of the The Medieval Academy of America, September 26–27, 1997
Local Coordinator, Eighth International Conference of the Texas Medieval Association at Trinity University, September 17–19, 1998; Fifth International Conference of the Texas Medieval Association at Trinity University, September 6–9, 1995
Organizer, Conference on "Poetry and Preaching in the Late Middle Ages," Trinity University, September 11–14, 1993
Member, Budget and Personnel Committee, English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, spring semester, 2016; spring semester, 2009
Member, Graduate College Dissertation Fellowship Subcommittee, English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, spring semester, 2013
Member, MA Comparative Literature Admission Committee, English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, spring semester, 2013
Member, Academic Program Review Committee, English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, fall semester 2012–spring semester, 2013
Member, PhD Admissions Committee–Literature, English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, spring semester, 2010
Member, Ad hoc Committee on Departmental By-Laws, English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, spring semester, 2008–spring semester, 2009
Faculty Senator, Univerity Academic Council and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, spring semester, 2015; fall semester, 2010
Member, NEH Summer Stipend Review Panel, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, summer, 2015; summer, 2013
Member, Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award Selection
Committee, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Arizona State University, Tempe, September, 2007
Member, Advisory Board
(Comité Científico), for the conference on “Sensory Approaches to the Medieval World,” The Medieval Research and Study Group (GIEM) at the National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2016–2017
Consultant, Advisory meeting for “A Sense of Beauty: Medieval Art and the Five Senses,” an exhibition at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, June 13, 2014.
Outside Evaluator, Promotion and/or Tenure Review Process, Department of English, Mississippi State University, September, 2016; Department of English, University of Oklahoma, September, 2015; Department of History, University of California at Irvine, October, 2014; Department of English, University of North Texas, August, 2011; Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October, 2010; Department of English, University of New Mexico, October, 2009; Department of English, Mississippi State University, September, 2009; Department of English, Lehigh University, September, 2009; Department of English, Pomona College, June, 2006; Department of History, University of Alberta, September, 2004; Department of History, Whitman College, October, 2002; Department of English, Kent State University, September, 2000
External examiner, PhD Dissertation, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, September, 2009; Medieval Studies Program, University of Ottawa, April, 1994
Doctoral Thesis Proposal Evaluator, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, June, 2006
Member, Editorial Board (Comité Científico) of Cuadernos Medievales, National University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2016–present; Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 2009–present; Gawain Poet Studies, 2010–2012; Arthuriana, journal of the International Arthurian Society–North American Branch, 1997–2000
Manuscript Evaluator for Palgrave Macmillan, November, 2015; Wiley-Blackwell, May, 2015 (book submission proposal); the University of Pennsylvania Press, November, 2013; Boydell and Brewer, January, 2013; August, 2012 (book submission proposals); the University of Illinois Press, September, 2016; February, 2011; the University of Notre Dame Press, October, 2010; Brill Publishers, June, 2010, February, 2010; Yale University Press, June, 2009; The American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, March, 2009, February, 2007, September, 2004, August, 1999; Medieval Institute Press, Kalamazoo, MI, June, 2005, October, 2004; Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, Toronto, Canada, March, 2001
Manuscript Evaluator for Yearbook of Langland Studies, 2014, 2008; Florilegium, 2013; Medium AEvum, 2013; Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 2012; Viator, 2012; Review of English Studies, 2011; Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 2010, 2007; Modern Philology, 2009; The Chaucer Review, 2008–2009, 2005–2006
Reader, fellowship applications for the National Humanities Center, 1999–present; the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies, June, 2016; the American Philosophical Society, January, 2015; The Leverhulme Trust (UK), January, 2001; the Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, October, 2000; Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, April, 1996
Member, Program Committee, annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Austin, TX, April 13–15, 2000
Organizer, sessions on "The Sensuous Body" [co-organizer with Larry Scanlon] and "Sweetness: The Possibilities of Pleasure" [co-organizer with Peggy Knapp and Jessica Rosenfeld], biennial conference of The New Chaucer Society, London, July 10–15, 2016; two sessions on "Edification of the Senses," biennial conference of The New Chaucer Society, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 16–20, 2014 [co-organizer with Larry Scanlon]; "William Peraldus' Summa on the Vices and Virtues and the Foundations of Chaucerian Ethics," biennial conference of The New Chaucer Society, Portland, OR, July 23–26, 2012 [co-organizer with Larry Scanlon]; "The Natural World of Scholasticism: Paris in the Thirteenth Century,"16th Annual ACMRS Conference, Tempe, AZ, February 11–13, 2010; two sessions on "Tasting and Seeing: Pleasures and Dangers of the Mouth and Eye" and "Vision, Visions, and Gendered Identities," 15th Annual ACMRS Conference, Tempe, AZ, February 12–14, 2009; session on "The Seven Deadly Sins as Cultural Constructions in the Middle Ages," 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2007; session on "Constructing Morality in Late-Medieval England," biennial conference of The New Chaucer Society, New York, NY, July, 2006; session on "Opening the Borders of (Im)morality: Vices as Virtues, Virtues as Vices," annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Miami Beach, FL, March 31–April 2, 2005; three sessions on "The Vices as Cultural Constructions," 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2005; session on "Moral Chaucer," MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, December 27–December 30, 2004; session on "The Vices and the Borders of Morality," annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Austin, TX, April 13–15, 2000
Participant, "Technology and Course Design in the Arts and Humanities," ACS-Mellon Sponsored Project, Birmingham-Southern College, June 21–25, 1998
Faculty Advisor, Student Medieval Group, Trinity University, 1991–2007
Director, Student Medieval Drama Group, Universität Augsburg,
1979–1980
Hebrew – reading knowledge for scholarship
Ancient Greek – reading knowledge for scholarship
Latin – command necessary for editorial work
French – command of medieval stages, reading knowledge, some spoken fluency
Italian – reading knowledge for scholarship
Spanish – reading knowledge for scholarship
German – command of medieval stages, fluent in modern German
Welsh – reading knowledge for scholarship of medieval Welsh
Chair, PhD Dissertation Committees, Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe (in progress: Christa Mannen; Sunyoung Lee [comps: March, 2014]; Arthur Russell [comps: January, 2013]); completed: Nathaniel Bump, November, 2015
Member, PhD Dissertation Committees, Department of English,
Arizona State University, Tempe: (in progress: Jessica Brown [comps: April, 2015]; Benjamin Ambler [comps: March, 2014]); completed: Alaya Swann, March, 2014; William Bolton,
March, 2012; Bryan VanGinhoven, February, 2012; Ryan Muckerheide,
June, 2010; Darin Merrill, April, 2009; Department of English, Purdue University (in progress: Ingrid A. Pierce [comps: April, 2015])
Chair, Master's Thesis Committees, Department of English, Arizona
State University, Tempe, completed: Rebecca Bostic [Master's Project],
December, 2010; Constance Trent, November, 2008; School of Historical,
Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University,
Tempe, completed: Shawn McAvoy, December, 2010; Department of
English, Universität Tübingen, completed: Martin Blum,
June, 1990
Member, Master's Thesis Committee, Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, completed: Sarah Coombs Stanhill, August, 2009
Chair, Honor’s Thesis Committee, Barrett Honor’s College, Arizona State University, Tempe, completed: Mary Kupsch, March, 2015
Member, Honor's Thesis Committee, Barrett Honor's College, Arizona State University, Tempe, completed: Emily Reynolds, April, 2011
Director, Honors Theses, Department of English, Trinity University, 1992–1994
| Beowulf | Introduction to Old English |
| Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales | Jews in Medieval Europe |
| Chaucer’s Troilus | King Arthur in English Literature |
| Creative Writing: Poetry | Medieval English Philology |
| Culture & Creativity | Medieval Imagination |
| Curiosity and Medieval Literature | Medieval Masterpieces |
| Deadly Sins in Western Culture | Medieval Narrative and Chaucer |
| English Moralities & Mystery Plays | Middle English Political Poetry |
| Freshman Composition | Old English Heroic Literature |
| Gower’s Confessio Amantis | Old English Saints’ Lives |
| History of the English Language | Short Fiction |
| Introduction to Middle English | Sin & Social Revolt in ME Lit. |
| Introduction to the Novel | Survey of English Literature |
| Introduction to OE-ME Philology | Works of the Gawain-Poet |
A Supplement to Morton W. Bloomfield et al.,
'Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D.'
Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, Research on the Inheritance
of Early and Medieval Christianity, vol. 50. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2008. Pp. 414. ISBN 978-2-503-52857-1
[co-author with István Bejczy].
Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the
Western Middle Ages. Variorum Collected Studies Series,
CS869. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing,
2007. [reprint of 14 essays published originally between 1982
and 2001, with one new essay]. ISBN 978-0-86078-973-4.
The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice
in Early Medieval Thought and Literature. Cambridge Studies
in Medieval Literature, vol. 41. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 246. Digital paperback reprint:
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-521-38522-9.
Paperback reprint: Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press,
2006. ISBN 0-521-026482.
A Catalogue of Latin Texts with Material
on the Vices and Virtues in Manuscripts in Hungary. GRATIA:
Bamberger Schriften zur Renaissanceforschung, vol. 29. Wiesbaden,
Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996. Pp. xii, 125. ISBN 3-447-03815-2.
The Treatise on Vices and Virtues in Latin
and the Vernacular. Typologie des sources du moyen âge
occidental, vol. 68. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1993. Pp. viii,
205; 3 color illustrations. ISBN 2-503-36068-8.
Co-editor, with John Jeffries Martin. "Vices
and Virtues." A series at Yale University Press. Trade Division.
2010–present. [volumes published: A. C. Grayling, Friendship (2013); in preparation: Barbara Rosenwein, Anger]
General Editor. The Chaucer Encyclopedia.
4 vols.
Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. In preparation (under contract).
Co-editor and translator, with Siegfried Wenzel,
Bridget K. Balint, and Edwin Craun. William Peraldus. Summa
de vitiis. Critical Edition and English Translation. 3
vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press. In preparation (under contract).
Editor. Petri Lemovicensis Tractatus moralis
de oculo. Under contract for the series: Corpus Christianorum,
Continuatio Mediaevalis. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.
Co-Editor with Herbert Kessler; editorial assistance by Arthur J. Russell. Science, Ethics, and the Transformations of Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.
Text Image Context. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Under review.
Editor. A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages.
Vol. 2 of A Cultural History of the Senses. London:
Bloomsbury, 2014. Pp. xiii,
266; 46 illustrations. ISBN 978-0-8578-5340-0.
Co-editor with David Hawkes; editorial assistance by Nathaniel Bump.
The Book of Nature and Humanity in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 29. Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. Pp. xxv, 322. ISBN 978-2-503-54921-7.
Co-Editor with Susan J. Ridyard. Sin in
Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition of the Seven
Deadly Sins. York: York Medieval Press, in connection
with Boydell & Brewer, 2012. Pp. xvi, 338. ISBN 978-1-903153-41-3.
Translator. Peter of Limoges. The Moral Treatise
on the Eye. Mediaeval Sources in Translation, 51. Toronto:
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2012. Pp. xxxiii, 271.
ISBN 978-0-88844-301-4.
Co-editor with C. Schleif. Pleasure and
Danger in Perception: The Senses in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Special issue of The Senses & Society 5,1 (2010).
Pp. 168. ISBN 978-1-84788-594-4
Editor. The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities
to Individuals. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions:
History, Culture, Religion, Ideas, vol. 123. Leiden, Boston: Brill,
2007. Pp. xii, 308; 14 illustrations. ISBN 90-04-15785-9
Co-Editor with István Bejczy. Virtue
and Ethics in the Twelfth Century. Brill's Studies in
Intellectual History, vol. 130. Leiden: Brill, 2005. Pp. vi, 393.
ISBN 90-04-14327-0.
Editor. In the Garden of Evil: The Vices
and Culture in the Middle Ages. Papers in Mediaeval Studies,
vol. 18. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press,
2005. Pp. xxiv, 568; 22 illustrations. ISBN 0-88844-818-X.
General Editor. "Lectures on Medieval Judaism
at Trinity University: Occasional Papers." Vol. 1-3. Kalamazoo,
MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1996-2000. [three volumes
published]
Co-Editor with J. A. Alford. Literature and
Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies
in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel. Medieval & Renaissance Texts
& Studies, vol. 118. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance
Texts & Studies, 1995. Pp. ix, 414. ISBN 0-86698-172-1.
"'Venez les bénis ... venez les maudits' : Permanence des listes de vices et vertus contraires dans la morale occidentale (Moyen âge-époque moderne)," in: A. Montoya and A. M. E. A. de Gendt, eds., La pensée sérielle, du Moyen Âge aux Lumières (Geneva), forthcoming. [in French]
"Introduction," in H. L. Kessler and R. G. Newhauser, eds., Science, Ethics, and the Transformations of Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Toronto), forthcoming [co-author with Herbert L. Kessler].
"Morals, Science, and the Edification of the Senses," in H. L. Kessler and R. G. Newhauser, eds., Science, Ethics, and the Transformations of Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Toronto), forthcoming.
"Virtus regens animam: William Peraldus on Guiding the Pleasures of the Senses," in: R. Macdonald, E. K. M. Murphy, and E. L. Swann, eds., Sensing the Sacred: Religion and the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Farnham, UK), forthcoming.
"Sin, the Business of Pleasure, and the Pleasure of Reading: Exemplary Narratives and Other Forms of Sinful Pleasure in William Peraldus' Summa de vitiis," in: P. Nagy and N. Cohen, eds., The Book of Medieval Pleasure (Turnhout), forthcoming.
"The Multisensoriality of Place and the Chaucerian Multisensual," in: A. Kern-Stähler et al., eds., The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England, Intersections 44 (Leiden and Boston, 2016), pp. 199-218.
"Pride, the Prince, and the Prelate: Hamartiology and Restraints on Power," in: P. Gilli, ed., La pathologie du pouvoir: vices, crimes et délits des gouvernants (Antiquité, Moyen Âge, première époque moderne), Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas 198 (Leiden, 2016), pp. 237-62.
"The Senses, the Medieval Sensorium, and Sensing (in) the Middle Ages," in: A. Classen, ed., Handbook of Medieval Culture: Fundamental Aspects and Conditions of the European Middle Ages (Berlin and New York, 2015), vol. 3, pp. 1559-75.
"Educating the Senses on Love or Lust: Richard de Fournival and Peter of Limoges," in: D. Stodola and G. Donavin, eds., Public Declamations: Essays on Medieval Rhetoric, Education, and Letters in Honour of Martin Camargo. Disputatio 27 (Turnhout, 2015), pp. 213-28.
"Introduction: The Sensual Middle Ages," in: R. Newhauser, ed., A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages, A Cultural History of the Senses 2 (London, 2014), pp. 1-22.
"Unerring Faith in the Pulpit: William Peraldus'
Tractatus de fide in the Summa de uirtutibus,"
in: M. Forlivesi, R. Quinto, and S. Vecchio, eds., Fides
Virtus. The Virtue of Faith from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, Archa
Verbi.
Yearbook for the Study of Medieval Theology. Subsidia 12 (Münster, 2014), pp. 389-410.
"Mapping Virtual Pilgrimage in an Early Fifteenth-Century Arma Christi Roll," in: L. H. Cooper and A. Denny-Brown,
eds., The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture: Objects, Representation, and Devotional
Practice (Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT, 2014), pp. 83-112, plates 3.1-3.6
[co-author with Arthur J. Russell].
"The Optics of Ps-Grosseteste: Editing Peter
of Limoges's Tractatus moralis de oculo," in: V. Gillespie
and A. Hudson, eds., Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain
in the Twenty-First Century, Texts and Transitions 5 (Turnhout, 2013), pp. 167-94.
"Introduction: Boundaries of the Human,"
in: D. Hawkes and R. G. Newhauser, eds., The Book of Nature and Humanity
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Arizona Studies
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 29 (Turnhout, 2013), pp. xi-xxv.
[co-author with David Hawkes].
"'These Seaven Devils': The Capital Vices
on the Way to Modernity," in: R. G. Newhauser and S. J. Ridyard,
eds., Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition
of the Seven Deadly Sins (York, 2012), pp. 157-88.
"Introduction: Understanding Sin: Recent Scholarship and
the Capital Vices," in: R. G. Newhauser and S. J. Ridyard, eds.,
Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition
of the Seven Deadly Sins (York, 2012), pp. 1-16.
"Religious Writing: Hagiography, Pastoralia,
Devotional and Contemplative Works," in: L. Scanlon, ed.,
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100
- 1500 (Cambridge, UK, 2009), pp. 37-55.
"The Capital Vices as Medieval Anthropology,"
in: Ch. Flüeler and M. Rohde, eds., Laster im Mittelalter
/ Vices in the Middle Ages, Scrinium Friburgense
/ Veröffentlichungen des Mediävistischen Instituts der
Universität Freiburg 23 (Berlin, New York, 2009),
pp. 105-23.
"On Ambiguity in Moral Theology: When the
Vices Masquerade as Virtues," trans. Andrea Nemeth-Newhauser,
in: R. Newhauser, Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in
the Western Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series,
CS869 (Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT, 2007), essay I (26
pages).
"Introduction: Cultural Construction and the
Vices," in: R. Newhauser, ed., The Seven Deadly Sins:
From Communities to Individuals, Studies in Medieval and
Reformation Traditions: History, Culture, Religion, Ideas 123
(Leiden, Boston, 2007), pp. 1-17.
"Justice and Liberality: Opposition to Avarice
in the Twelfth Century," in: I. Bejczy and R.
Newhauser, eds., Virtue and Ethics in the Twelfth Century,
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 130 (Leiden, 2005), pp.
295-316.
"Introduction," in: R. Newhauser, ed.,
In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle
Ages, Papers in Mediaeval Studies 18 (Toronto, 2005),
pp. vii-xix.
"Avaritia and Paupertas: On
the Place of the Early Franciscans in the History of Avarice,"
in: R. Newhauser, ed., In the Garden of Evil: The Vices
and Culture in the Middle Ages, Papers in
Mediaeval Studies 18 (Toronto, 2005), pp. 324-48.
"Visuality and Moral Culture in the Late Middle
Ages: The Emblematic Conflictus and its Literary Representatives,
the Etymachia, Qui vicerit dabo, and In campo
mundi," in: R. Newhauser, ed., In the Garden of
Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages, Papers
in Mediaeval Studies 18 (Toronto, 2005), pp. 234-76 [co-author,
with Nigel Harris]
"Avarice and the Apocalypse," in: R.
Landes, A. Gow, and D. Van Meter, eds., The Apocalyptic
Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050 (Oxford,
2003), pp. 109-19 [reprinted in my Sin: Essays on the Moral
Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (2007), essay IX].
"The Parson's Tale," in: R. M. Correale
and M. Hamel, eds., Sources and Analogues of The Canterbury
Tales I, Chaucer Studies 28 (Cambridge, UK, 2002), pp.
529-613. Paperback reprint: 2003.
"Zur Zweideutigkeit in der Moraltheologie.
Als Tugenden verkleidete Laster," in: P. von Moos, ed., Der
Fehltritt. Vergehen und Versehen in der Vormoderne, Norm
und Struktur 15 (Köln, Weimar, Wien, 2001), pp. 377-402 [in
German].
"Avaritia und Paupertas: zur
Stellung der frühen Franziskaner in der Geschichte der Habsucht,"
in: G. Melville and A. Kehnel, eds., In proposito paupertatis.
Studien zum Armutsverständnis bei den mittelalterlichen Bettelorden,
Vita regularis 13 (Münster, 2001), pp. 31-49 [in
German; reprinted in my Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition
in the Western Middle Ages (2007), essay X].
"Inter scientiam et populum: Roger
Bacon, Peter of Limoges, and the 'Tractatus moralis de oculo,'"
in: J. A. Aertsen, K. Emery, Jr., and A. Speer, eds., Nach
der Verurteilung von 1277. Philosophie und Theologie an der Universität
von Paris im letzten Viertel des 13. Jahrhunderts. Studien und
Texte / After the Condemnations of 1277. Philosophy and Theology
at the University of Paris in the Last Quarter of the Thirteenth
Century. Studies and Texts, Miscellanea Mediaevalia 28
(Berlin, New York, 2001), pp. 682-703.
"Historicity and Complaint in Song of the
Husbandman," in: S. Fein, ed., Studies in the Harley
Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Contexts of British
Library MS Harley 2253, TEAMS (Kalamazoo, MI, 2000), pp.
203-17.
"The Parson's Tale and Its Generic Affiliations,"
in: D. Raybin and L. T. Holley, eds., Closure in The Canterbury
Tales: The Role of The Parson’s Tale, Studies in
Medieval Culture 41 (Kalamazoo, MI, 2000), pp. 45-76 [reprinted
in my Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western
Middle Ages (2007), essay IV].
"Jesus as the First Dominican? Reflections
on a Sub-theme in the Exemplary Literature of Some Thirteenth-Century
Preachers," in: K. Emery, Jr. and J. Wawrykow, eds., Christ
Among the Medieval Dominicans: Representations of Christ in the
Texts and Images of the Order of Preachers, Notre Dame
Conferences in Medieval Studies 7 (Notre Dame, London, 1998),
pp. 238-55.
"Sources II: Scriptural and Devotional Sources,"
in: D. Brewer and J. Gibson, eds., Companion to the Gawain-Poet
(Woodbridge, UK, 1997), pp. 253-71.
"The Treatise on Vices and Virtues as a Medieval
Genre and Its Structural Foundations in the Classical Tradition,"
in: B. Carlos Bazán et al., eds., Les philosophies
morales et politiques au Moyen Âge/Moral and Political Philosophies
in the Middle Ages, Proceedings of the Ninth International
Congress of Medieval Philosophy (Ottawa, 17–22 August 1992), Publications
du Laboratoire de la pensée ancienne et médiévale,
Université d’Ottawa, I,1 (Ottawa, Canada, 1995), vol.
1, pp. 420-28 [reprinted in my Sin: Essays on the Moral
Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (2007), essay II].
"Nature’s Moral Eye: Peter of Limoges’
Tractatus moralis de oculo," in: S. J. Ridyard and
R. G. Benson, eds., Man and Nature in the Middle Ages,
Sewanee Mediaeval Studies 6 (Sewanee, TN, 1995), pp. 125-36.
"'Strong it is to flitte:' A Middle
English Poem on Death and Its Pastoral Context," in: R. G.
Newhauser and J. A. Alford, eds., Literature and Religion
in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor
of Siegfried Wenzel, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies
118 (Binghamton, NY, 1995), pp. 319-36.
"alle sunde hant vnterschidunge: Der
Tugend- und Lastertraktat als literarische Gattung im Mittelalter,"
in: J. Janota et al., eds., Festschrift Walter Haug und
Burghart Wachinger (Tübingen, Germany, 1992), vol.
1, pp. 287-303 [in German; reprinted in my Sin: Essays on
the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (2007),
essay III].
"Aspects of the Development of the Imperative
in Early Modern English," in: R. Tracy et al., eds., Who
Climbs the Grammar-Tree (Festschrift for D.A. Reibel on
the Occasion of his 60th Birthday), Linguistische Arbeiten 281
(Tübingen, Germany, 1992), pp. 93-106 [co-author with Andrea
Németh-Newhauser].
"Der 'Tractatus moralis de oculo'
des Petrus von Limoges und seine exempla," in: W.
Haug and B. Wachinger, eds., Exempel und Exempelsammlungen,
Fortuna vitrea 2 (Tübingen, Germany, 1991), pp. 95-136 [in
German].
"Court Festivities in Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight: Paradigm and Transformation," in: D. Altenburg
et al., eds., Feste und Feiern im Mittelalter. Paderborner
Symposion des Mediävistenverbandes (Sigmaringen,
Germany, 1991), pp. 461-68.
"From Treatise to Sermon: Johannes Herolt
on the novem peccata aliena," in: T. L. Amos et al.,
eds., De ore domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Age,
Medieval Institute Publications. Studies in Medieval Culture 27
(Kalamazoo, MI, 1989), pp. 185-209 [reprinted in my Sin:
Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages
(2007), essay V].
"Augustinian Vitium curiositatis and
its Reception," in: E. B. King and J. T. Schaefer, eds.,
Saint Augustine and his Influence in the Middle Ages, Sewanee
Mediaeval Studies 3 (Sewanee, TN, 1988), pp. 99-124 [reprinted
in my Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western
Middle Ages (2007), essay XIV].
"The Sin of Curiosity and the Cistercians,"
in: J. R. Sommerfeldt, ed., Erudition at God’s Service,
Studies in Medieval Cistercian History 11, Cistercian Studies
Series 98 (Kalamazoo, MI, 1987), pp. 71-95 [reprinted in my Sin:
Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages
(2007), essay XV].
"The Love of Money as Deadly Sin and Deadly
Disease," in: J. O. Fichte et al., eds., Zusammenhänge,
Einflüsse, Wirkungen. Kongressakten zum ersten Symposium
des Mediävistenverbandes in Tübingen, 1984 (Berlin,
New York, 1986), pp. 315-26 [reprinted in my Sin: Essays
on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (2007),
essay VII].
Fourteen articles on: "Bruges," "Chaldea,"
"Hermus," "Lydia," "Mediterranean Sea,"
"Nineveh," "Orcades," "Persia,"
"Samaria," "Scotland," "Serien,"
"Sicily," "Sinai," "Ypres," forthcoming
in: R. Newhauser, gen. ed., The Chaucer Encyclopedia
(volume under contract, Oxford).
Fifty-three articles as co-author on: "Boulogne,"
"Cithaeron," "Cologne," "Corinth,"
"Cyprus," "Ethiopia," "Etna," "Euphrates,"
"Europe," "Gotland," "Horeb," "India,"
"Indus," "Jaconitos," "Jerusalem,"
"Kayrrud," "Lacedaemon," "Lincoln,"
"Libya," "Lithuania," "Lombardy,"
"Macedonia," "Medes," "Mercenrike,"
"Messene," "Middelburg," "Milan,"
"Miletus," "Palmyra," "Paris," "Pavia,"
"Penmarch," "Portugal," "Prussia,"
"Red Sea," "Rhodope," "Rome," "Russia,"
"Saluzzo," "Sarai," "Scythia," "Simois,"
"Syria," "Tars," "Tartary," "Thebes-2,"
"Thessaly," "Thule," "Tramyssene,"
"Tunis," "Tyre," "Venice," "Verona,"
forthcoming in: R. Newhauser, gen. ed., The Chaucer
Encyclopedia (volume under contract, Oxford).
Two articles in Encyclopedia
of the Bible and Its Reception: "Hate, Hatred, IV: Christianity, B. Medieval Times" vol. 11 (Berlin and New York, 2015), 396-98; "Coveting, Desiring, IV: Christianity," vol. 5 (Berlin and New
York, 2012), 942-44.
"Curiosity," in: K. Pollmann, ed., The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine,
vol. 2 (Oxford, 2013), 849-52.
Two articles on: "Confession and Penance"
and "Manuals of Confession," in: D. Dyas, ed., The
English Parish Church Through the Centuries, CD-ROM (York,
UK, 2010). 1407 and 1845 words respectively.
"Vices and Virtues," in: R. E. Bjork,
ed., The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Oxford,
2010), vol. 4, pp. 1696-97.
Two articles on: “Tugenden und Laster” and “Kirchliche Tugenden und Laster,” in: G. Melville and M. Staub, eds., Enzyklopädie des Mittelalters, 2 vols. (Darmstadt, 2008; 2nd ed., 2013), vol. 1, 177-78 and 178-82 [in German]. English translation: "Virtues and Vices" and "Virtues and Vices in the Church," in: Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages, forthcoming.
"Virtues and Vices," in: W. C.
Jordan, ed., Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Supplement 1
(New York, 2004), pp. 628-33.
Two articles on: "Jerusalem" and "Jewish
Travelers," in: J. B. Friedman and K. M. Figg, eds., Trade,
Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia,
Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1899 (New York, 2000),
pp. 300-02, 303-04.
Two articles on: "Tugenden und Laster, Tugend-
und Lasterkataloge (Englische Literatur)" in: Lexikon
des Mittelalters, vol. 8 (München, Germany,
1996), col. 1088; "Predigt (mittelenglisch)," vol. 7
(1994), cols. 179-80 [in German].
"John Gower's Sweet Tooth," The Review of English Studies N.S. 64 [267] (2013), 752-69.
"A Hybrid Life of John the Baptist: The Middle English Text of MS Harley 2250,"
Anglia. 130.2 (2012), 218-39. [co-author with
William E. Bolton].
"Foreword: The Senses in the Intellectual
History of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," Pleasure
and Danger in Perception: The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and
Renaissance. Special issue of The Senses & Society
5,1 (2010), 5-9.
"Peter of Limoges, Optics, and the Science
of the Senses," Pleasure and Danger in Perception:
The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Special
issue of The Senses & Society 5.1 (2010), 28-44.
"Theory and Practice: The Senses in the Middle
Ages," The Senses & Society 4,3 (2009),
367-72 [review article of Rethinking the Medieval Senses:
Heritage, Fascinations, Frames, ed. Stephen G. Nichols,
Andreas Kablitz, and Alison Calhoun (Baltimore, 2008) and C. M.
Woolgar, The Senses in Late Medieval England (New
Haven, 2006)].
"Preaching the 'Contrary Virtues,'"
Mediaeval Studies 70 (2008), 135-62. [reprinted in: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, vol. 159, ed. L. J. Trudeau (Detroit, etc., 2014), 266-81]
"The Work of an English Scribe in a Manuscript
in Estonia," Scriptorium 62.1 (2008), 139-48,
plate 19 [co-author with Tiina Kala and Meelis Friedenthal].
"Two Newly Discovered Abbreviations of Simon
of Hinton's Summa Iuniorum, Concentrating on the Virtues
and Vices," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum
75 (2005), 95-144 [co-author, with István P. Bejczy].
"A Middle English Poem on the Fleeting Nature
of Material Wealth," Medium Ævum 71.1
(2002), 74-81.
"The Meaning of Gawain's Greed,"
Studies in Philology 87.4 (1990), 410-26 [reprinted
in my Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western
Middle Ages (2007), essay XI].
"A la redécouverte de Willem Jordaens,"
Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique 84.2
(1989), 371-79 [review article of Alf Önnerfors, ed., Willem
Jordaens Conflictus virtutum et viciorum, Abhandlungen der
Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 74 (Opladen,
1986) and Lawrence J. Johnson, ed., Wilhelm Jordaens’s
Avellana: A Fourteenth-Century Virtue-Vice Debate, Speculum
Anniversary Monographs 9 (Cambridge, MA, 1985)] [in French;
reprinted in my Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the
Western Middle Ages (2007), essay VI].
"Towards modus in habendo: Transformations
in the Idea of Avarice. The Early Penitentials through the Carolingian
Reforms," Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für
Rechtsgeschichte 106, Kanonistische Abteilung 75 (1989),
1-22 [reprinted in my Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition
in the Western Middle Ages (2007), essay VIII].
"Latin Texts with Material on the Virtues
and Vices in Manuscripts in Hungary: Catalogue II," Manuscripta
33.1 (1989), 3-14.
"Latin Texts with Material on the Virtues
and Vices in Manuscripts in Hungary: Catalogue I," Manuscripta
31.2 (1987), 102-15.
"Patristic Poggio? The Evidence of Gyõr,
Egyházmegyei Könyvtár MS. I.4," Rinascimento
26 (1986), 231-39 [reprinted in my Sin: Essays on the Moral
Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (2007), essay XII].
"Towards a History of Human Curiosity: A Prolegomenon
to its Medieval Phase," Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift
56 (1982), 559-75 [reprinted in my Sin: Essays on the Moral
Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (2007), essay XIII].
"The Text of Galand of Reigny’s 'De
Colloquio Vitiorum’ from his 'Parabolarium,'"
Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 17 (1982), 108-19.
"The Merlini Allegoria in English,"
English Literary Renaissance 10,1 (1980), 120-32.
"A Note on Cyfranc Lludd a Llefelys,"
The Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies 28,4
(1980), 612.
Thomas Rubel, Der Sünder als Stilmodell. Schullektüre im 13. Jahrhundert am Beispiel des Militarius. Mit kritischer Edition und Untersuchungen zur Stoffgeschichte. Studium Litterarum 18 (Berlin, 2009), in: The Journal of Medieval Latin 26 (2016), forthcoming.
Two Middle English Translations of Friar
Laurent's Somme le roi: Critical Edition, ed. Emmanuelle
Roux. Textes vernaculaires du moyen âge 8 (Turnhout, 2010),
in: JEGP 112.2 (2013): 236-38.
David Aers, Salvation and Sin. Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (Notre Dame, IN, 2009), in: Studies in the Age of Chaucer 34 (2012), 359-61.
Speculum vitae. A Reading Edition,
ed. Ralph Hanna, 2 vols. Early English Text Society o.s. 331-32
(Oxford, 2008), in: JEGP 111.1 (2012), 136-38.
Frances McCormack, Chaucer and the Culture
of Dissent. The Lollard Context and Subtext of the Parson's Tale
(Dublin, 2007), in: JEGP 109.1 (2010), 132-34...
Arnoldus Gheyloven Roterodamus, Gnotosolitos
parvus, ed. Anton G. Weiler. Corpus Christianorum Continuatio
Mediaeualis 212 (Turnhout, 2008), in: Speculum 84.4
(2009), 1047-49.
Peter Bauer, From Subsistence to Exchange
and Other Essays. With an Introduction by Amartya Sen
(Princeton, 2000), in: Common Knowledge 9.1 (2003),
165.
Book for a Simple and Devout Woman. A Late
Middle English Adaptation of Peraldus's Summa de Vitiis et Virtutibus
and Friar Laurent's Somme le Roi, edited from British Library
Mss Harley 6571 and Additional 30944, ed. F. N. M. Diekstra,
Mediaevalia Groningana, 24. (Groningen, 1998), in: JEGP
101.2 (2002), 250-53.
Elias of Thriplow, Serium senectutis,
ed, and trans. Roger Hillas, Medieval & Renaissance Texts
& Studies, volume 116 (Binghamton, NY, 1995), in: Speculum
76.4 (2001), 1033-35.
Helen Cooper, Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The
Canterbury Tales, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1996), in: JEGP
97.3 (1998), 416-18.
Lesley Smith, trans., Medieval Exegesis in
Translation: Commentaries on the Book of Ruth, (with an
Introduction and Notes) (Kalamazoo, MI, 1996), in: Arthuriana
8.3 (1998), 84-85.
Thomas Honegger, From Phoenix to Chauntecleer:
Medieval English Animal Poetry (Tübingen, Basil,
1996), in: Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19 (1997),
255-58.
Mary A. Rouse and Richard H. Rouse, Authentic
Witnesses: Approaches to Medieval Texts and Manuscripts
(Notre Dame, IN, 1991), in: Libraries & Culture
30.1 (1995), 115-17.
Walter S. Phelan, The Christmas Hero and
Yuletide Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter, 1992), in: Studies in the Age
of Chaucer 16 (1994), 245-248.
Siegfried Wenzel, ed. and trans., Summa virtutum
de remediis anime, The Chaucer Library (Athens, GA, 1984)
in: Speculum 62.3 (1987), 750-52.
Morton W. Bloomfield et al., Incipits of
Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D.,
The Mediaeval Academy of America, Publication 88 (Cambridge, MA,
1979) in: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 16 (1981),
340-43.
Producer and Host, "A Poetry Journal,"
KRTU radio (91.7 FM) (aired once per month, 10,
1998–5, 1999); KPOZ radio (1310 AM) (aired once
per month, 6–8, 1998)
Poems in Sofer (1998), EXEMPLA
(1974), The Little Magazine (1972).
The Tinderbox: Libretto for a Children’s
Musical based on the Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen (1980).
Stories (in German) in EXEMPLA (1975).
Poetry readings: Third Annual University of
Mary Hardin-Baylor Literary Festival (January 7–9, 1999); Gemini Ink, San Antonio, TX (December 4, 1998 – together
with Steven Kellman, Phillip Lopate, and Susan McAfee Monday).
Interview for the broadcast on "Greed,"
part of a seven-part series on "The Seven Deadly Sins,"
premiered January 2, 2009, on The History Channel.
Interview for the broadcast "The Triumph of
Avarice" for the radio program "Encounter," on
Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation),
aired 4 September, 2005; available at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/encounter/stories/2005/1458031.htm
"Hungary’s Jewish Community Shows New
Vitality," The Jewish Journal of San Antonio
16.3 (August, 1990), 24.
"'The Past is Never Gone, It is Not Even
Past': Jews in the Federal Republic of Germany," Explorations
[Princeton, N.J.] 2.3 (summer, 1988), 3.
"Seeing-Believing-Knowing-Intent," RSE Grant Worshop on Understanding the Senses, University of Glasgow, July 6, 2016 (invited presentation).
“The Seven Deadly Sins,” at The Spirit of the Senses Salon, Phoenix, Arizona, May 28, 2015 (invited presentation).
"Genesis and the Western Literary Imagination," in the panel: Creation Stories in Creation: A Comparative Discussion of Creation Narratives and Human Cultures, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, April 22, 2015 (invited presentation).
“Greed,” The Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics Speakeasy Series, Arizona State University, October 20, 2014 (invited presentation).
"Pride and the Prince: Hamartiology and Restraints on Power," at the conference on "Pathologie du pouvoir: vices, crimes et délits des gouvernants (Antiquité, Moyen Âge, temps Modernes)," Centre d’études médiévales de Montpellier, France, December, 2013 (invited presentation).
"Tasting Decadence in the Works of John Gower," keynote address at the Medieval English Studies Symposium, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, November 29-30, 2013 (invited presentation).
"Morals, Science, and the Edification of the Senses," at the symposium on “Science, Ethics, and the Transformations of Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,” The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, September 28, 2013.
"Multisensoriality and the Chaucerian Multisensual," keynote address at the conference on "The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures: Literature and Language," University of Bern, 7–8 June 2013 (invited presentation).
"Vice in the Thirteenth Century: Editing William Peraldus' Summa de vitiis," Duke University, February 25, 2013 (invited presentation).
"The Peraldus Project: The Edition, Translation, and Transmission of the Summa de vitiis," keynote address at the Graduate Student Conference, German Department, University of Virginia, February 22, 2013 (invited presentation).
"Chaucerian Narration and the Senses," Englisches Seminar der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, June 19, 2012 (invited presentation).
"Seven Sins in Early Modern England," British and American Studies, Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, June 14, 2012 (invited presentation).
"'Come ye blessed ... come ye cursed': On
the Continuity of the Vices and the Contrary Virtues in Western
Ethics," at the conference on "Serial Thinking: From
the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment," University of Groningen,
The Netherlands, June 7–8, 2012 (invited presentation).
"John Gower's Sweet Tooth," at the symposium
on "Les cinq sens au Moyen Age: Approches Croisées
et Interdisciplinaires," CESCM, University of Poitiers, June
1–2, 2012 (invited presentation).
"The Chaucerian Multisensual," Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (invited presentation,
September 21, 2011).
"Unerring Faith in the Pulpit: William Peraldus'
Tractatus de fide in the Summa de virtutibus," at the conference
"Fides Virtus. The Virtue of Faith in the Context of the
Theological Virtues. Exegesis, Moral Theology, and Pastoral Care
from the 12th to the Early 16th Century," Facoltà
Teologica del Triveneto, Padua, Italy, 6–9 July, 2011 (invited
presentation).
"Chaucer and the Medieval Senses," Medieval
English Research Seminar, Faculty of English Language and Literature,
University of Oxford, Trinity Term 2011 (invited presentation,
May 18, 2011).
"The Optics of Ps-Grosseteste: Peter of Limoges's
Tractatus moralis de oculo," at Editing Medieval Texts
from Britain in the Twenty-First Century, sponsored by the Early
English Text Society, St. Anne's College, Oxford (invited presentation,
May 21, 2010).
"Blood and Commandments: Symmetry and Morals,"
at Blood: Dynasty, Sacrament, Sacrifice, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, CA (invited lecture February 26, 2010).
"'These seaven devils': The Capital Vices
on the Way to Modernity," The Center for Cultural and Ethnic
Studies, National University, La Jolla, CA (invited lecture, November
19, 2009).
"Senses, Sins, and the Legitimacy of Sensory
Perception," at the symposium on "The Five Senses in
the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Pleasure and Danger in Perception,"
Arizona State University, Tempe, January 23, 2009.
"Sir Gawain and the Ambiguity of Judgment,"
at the conference on "Medieval Relativism and its Legacy,
1230-1450," Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne,
June 5–7, 2008 (invited lecture).
Respondent, session on "Revisiting the Seven
Deadly Sins: Medieval Ethics and Aesthetics," 43rd International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8, 2008 (invited
presentation).
"Sinful Continuities: The Seven Vices – Medieval
to Early-Modern," plenary lecture at the 2007 Sewanee Medieval
Colloquium (invited presentation, March 30–31, 2007).
"'The Miller's Tale': Sinful Curiosity and
Anti-Intellectualism," English Department, Arizona State
University, Tempe (invited lecture, March 1, 2007).
"Conflicting Faith: John, Nicholas, and the
Sin of Curiosity in 'The Miller's Tale,'" at the Medieval
Graduate Doctoral Conference, Department of English, Harvard University
(invited lecture, February 22, 2007).
"The Seven Deadly Sins: Past and Present,"
Darwin College, Cambridge University (invited lecture, August
10, 2006).
"Editing Peter of Limoges," at the University
of Tartu, Estonia (invited lecture, May 12, 2006).
"Preaching the 'Contrary Virtues,' "
at the conference on "Preaching the Virtues in the Middle
Ages (13th-15th Centuries)," Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
(invited conference, April 20–21, 2006).
"Die Hauptlaster als mittelalterliche Anthropologie,"
at the Freiburger Colloquium 2006: "Laster im Mittelalter,"
University of Fribourg, Switzerland (invited conference, February
20–24, 2006).
"Curiosity, Anti-Intellectualism in The Miller's
Tale, and the Legacy of Thales," keynote address at the Graduate
Conference in History and Classics, University of Alberta (invited presentation, March 5,
2005).
"Justice and Liberality: Opposition to Avarice
in the Twelfth Century," at the conference on "Virtue
and Ethics in the Twelfth Century," Katholieke Universiteit
Nijmegen (invited conference, September 5–6, 2003).
"The Treatise on Vices and Virtues, Chaucer's
'Parson's Tale,' and Middle English Works on the Seven Deadly
Sins," at the conference on "Revisiting Chaucer and
Christianity," International Study Center, Canterbury Cathedral
(invited conference, July 21–23, 2003).
"Curiosity in the Dung Heap: Geoffrey Chaucer's
'Miller's Tale' and Anti-Intellectualism," Departments of
History and English, Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (invited
lecture, July 2, 2002)
"Justifying Wealth, Marginalizing Poverty:
Avarice and the Early Franciscans," Department of English,
University of Oklahoma (invited lecture, March 11, 2002).
"Avarice and Poverty: On the Place of the
Early Franciscans in the History of Avarice," Washington
and Lee University (invited lecture, January 24, 2002)
"Curiosity's Fall: The Miller's Tale and Anti-Intellectualism,"
Presidential Address at the Eleventh International Conference
of the Texas Medieval Association at Trinity University, September
1, 2001
"Peter of Limoges and the Transmission of
the Tractatus moralis de oculo," Cambridge University, Faculty
of Classics, Latin Seminar (invited lecture, June 11, 2001)
"On Ambiguity in Moral Theology: When Vices
are Disguised as Virtues," at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program and the Department
of English (invited lecture, March 5, 2001)
"Avaritia and Paupertas: The Place of the
Franciscans in the History of Avarice," at the University
of Swansea, History Department (invited lecture, February 21,
2001)
"Vices Disguised as Virtues: On the Ambiguity
of Moral Concepts," at the University of Birmingham, England,
Graduate Medievalists' Group (invited lecture, December 6, 2000)
"On Ambiguity in Moral Theology," at
the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College,
University of London, Graduate Seminar in Medieval Philosophy
and Theology (invited lecture, November 29, 2000)
"Roger Bacon and Peter of Limoges: On the
Uses of Optics in Moral Discourse (De oculo morali)," Medieval
and Renaissance Studies Program, University of South Carolina
(invited lecture, May 1, 2000).
"Vice and Virtue in an Age of Opulence,"
at "Reason and Virtue in an Age of Opulence," First
Annual Conference of the Gerst Program in Political, Economic,
and Humanistic Studies, Duke University (invited conference, April
28-29, 2000).
"Soaring Eagles or Safety in the Herd: Anchoritic
and Cenobitic Authors on Greed," at "Out of the Desert:
Dry Places in History and the Imagination," Symposium sponsored
by The Claremont Consortium in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
and The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate
University (invited conference, February 24-26, 2000).
"Curiosity's Fall: The Miller's Tale and Anti-Intellectualism,"
at the 20th annual meeting of the Delaware Valley Medieval Association,
Philadelphia (invited plenary lecture, February 5, 2000).
"Towards a History of Greed," University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (invited presentation, 1999)
"Vices Disguised as Virtues: On the Ambiguity
of Moral Theology as Social Communication," at "Der
Fehltritt und die Diskurse über menschliche Interaktionskompetenz,"
Luzern, Switzerland (invited conference, September 30-October
2, 1999)
"Inter scientiam et populum: Peter
of Limoges and the Negotiations of moralia," at "After
the Condemnations of 1277 - The University of Paris in the Last
Quarter of the Thirteenth Century," Tübingen, Germany,
sponsored by the TransCoop Initiative, University of Cologne and
University of Notre Dame (invited conference, May, 1999)
"Pecia manuscripts and the Transmission
of Peter of Limoges' Tractatus moralis de oculo," Department
of Medieval Studies, Central European University (invited lecture,
1999)
"Historicity and Complaint in the 'Song of
the Husbandman,'" at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Modern
Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 5-7, 1998 (invited
participant)
"Medieval Studies in the Undergraduate Curriculum:
A Liberal Arts Perspective," College of Arts and Sciences
and Honors College, University of Oklahoma (invited presentation,
1998)
"Pecia manuscripts and the Transmission
of Peter of Limoges’ Tractatus moralis de oculo,"
University of Oklahoma (invited lecture, 1998)
"Medieval Studies and the Database of Visiting
Medievalists to North America," CARA meeting, University
of Pennsylvania (invited conference, 1998); University of Toronto
(invited conference, 1993); Stanford University (invited conference,
1992)
"Christians–Avarice–Jews: Conceptions
of Greed in Twelfth-Century Europe," at "In the Shadow
of the Millennium: Jews and Christians in Twelfth-Century Europe,"
University of Notre Dame (invited conference, 1996)
"Avarice and the Apocalypse," at "The
Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectations and Social Change
in Western Europe, 968-1033," Boston University (invited
conference, 1996)
"Jesus as a Literary Figure of Authority in
Dominican exempla," at "Christ Among the Medieval
Dominicans," University of Notre Dame (invited conference,
1995)
"Biblical and Devotional Sources of the Gawain-Poet,"
University of Trier, Germany, sponsored by the Departments of
German and English (invited lecture, 1995)
"Chaucer’s ‘Miller’s Tale’
and the Idiom of Moral Discourse," University of Tübingen,
Germany, Department of English (invited lecture, 1995)
"Towards a Future Exegesis: Chaucer’s
‘Miller’s Tale,’" University of Zürich,
Switzerland, Department of English (invited lecture, 1995)
"Chaucer’s Tale of Misplaced Curiosity,"
University of Mannheim, Germany, Department of English (invited
lecture, 1995)
"Greed and the Rabbis," University of
Texas, Austin, Hebrew Studies Program (invited lecture, 1992)
"Ascetic Transformations in Avarice: The Latin
West in the 4th and 5th Centuries," University of Texas,
Austin, Medieval Studies Series (invited lecture, 1991)
"Medieval Studies at Trinity University,"
CARA meeting, Newberry Library, Chicago (invited conference, 1991)
"alle sunde hant vnterschidunge: Der
Tugend- und Lastertraktat als literarische Gattung im Mittelalter,"
University of Trier, Germany, German Department (invited lecture,
1990)
"Der ‘Tractatus moralis de oculo’
des Petrus von Limoges und seine exempla," at "Exempel
und Exempelsammlungen," Schloß Reisensburg bei Günzburg,
Germany (invited conference, 1989)
"The Meaning of Gawain’s Greed,"
University of Missouri, Columbia, Department of English (invited
lecture, 1986)