Anita
Obermeier Curriculum Vitae March 2011 |
❑ EDUCATION
BA English/History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität,
Munich, 1982-84
❑ PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: Primary
❑ PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS: Secondary
❑ HONORS AND AWARDS Teaching
Honored at the Accessibility Resource Center Faculty Scholars Appreciation Luncheon, UNM, 2011. Research/Scholarship Winner of the Limited Competition for NEH Summer Stipend, UNM 2008. Fellowships Nomination for the Distinguished Dissertation of America Award, ASU, 1992 (1 nomination per university). ❑ PUBLICATIONS
Co-editor with Georgiana Donavin of Romance and Rhetoric: In Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney. Disputatio 19. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. 281 pp.
Seed, Sex, Superiority: Fertility and Sterility in Medieval Literature. Literary Criticism:
Chapter in a Book (Peer-Reviewed) “The Rhetoric of Symbolism: the Grail of Fertility and Sterility.” Romance and Rhetoric: In Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney. Disputatio 19. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010. 193-221. “Witches and the Myth of the Medieval ‘Burning Times.’” Misconceptions about the Middle Ages. Ed. Stephen J. Harris and Bryon L. Grigsby. New York and London: Routledge, 2007. 226-237. Paperback May 2009. “Chaucer’s ‘Retraction’.” Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury
Tales. Eds. Robert Correale and Mary Hamel. Vol. 2. Cambridge: D. S.
Brewer, 2005. 775-808. Paperback July 2009. “Joachim’s Infertility in the St. Anne’s Legend.” Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of Henry Ansgar Kelly. Eds. Donka Minkova and Theresa Tinkle. Bern: Peter Lang, 2003. 289-307. “Medieval Narrative Conventions and the Putative Anti-Medievalism of
Twain’s Yankee.”Reinventing the Middle Ages and
the Renaissance. Ed. William Gentrup. Turnholt: Brepols, 1998. 223-39.
Co-author with Robert E. Bjork of “Date, Author, and Audience of Beowulf.” A
Beowulf Handbook. Eds. Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles. Lincoln:
U of Nebraska P, 1997. 13-34.
“Censorship in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context.” Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice. Eds. Stephen Partridge and Erik Kwakkel. Forthcoming from University of Toronto Press, 2011. 38 pp. Literary Criticism: Articles in
Peer-Reviewed Journals “Postmodernism and the Press in Naomi Mitchison’s To the Chapel
Perilous.” Studies in Medievalism 13 (2004): 237-58. Co-author with Rebecca Kennison of “The Privileging of Visio over Vox in the Mystical Experiences of Hildegard of Bingen and Joan of Arc.” Mystics Quarterly 23:3 (1997): 137-67. “Modern Scandinavian Literature in Translation at the University of Nebraska Press.” Translation Review 29 (1989): 11-17. In
Progress Co-author with Neil Goldberg, “Malaria in Chaucer’s ‘Nun’s Priest’s Tale.’” Under review by Chaucer Review. 8 pp. “Cooking Cranes in Cleanness.” Under review by Medium Aevum. 6 pp. “Margaret Stodeye: An Analogue to Chaucer’s Wife of Bath.” To be submitted to Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 2 pp. “Translation of the theoretical chapter of Theodor Wolpers’ Die
englische Heiligenlegende des Mittelalters: Eine Formgeschichte des
Legendenerzählens von der spätantiken lateinischen Tradition bis zur
Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts. To be submitted to PMLA.
25pp. Literary Criticism: Book Reviews Fichte, Joerg O. From Camelot to Obamalot: Essays on Medieval and Modern Arthurian Literature. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2010. Journal for English and Germanic Philology. Forthcoming, 5 pp. Scattergood, John. Occasions for Writing: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Politics, and Society. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010. Mediävistik. Forthcoming. 5 pp. Miller, Mark. Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Medieval Feminist Forum. Forthcoming, 5 pp. Mieszkowski, Gretchen. Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer’s Pandarus. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Journal for English and Germanic Philology. Forthcoming. 5 pp. Frantzen, Allen J. The Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War. U of Chicago P, 2004. The Medieval Review (online) http://www.hti.umich.edu . May 2004. 5 pp. Benson, Robert G., and Susan J. Ridyard, eds. New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry. D.S. Brewer, 2003. The Medieval Review (online) http://www.hti.umich.edu. March 2004. 5 pp. Utz, Richard. Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A History of Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793-1948. Brepols 2002. Quidditas 23 (2002): 117-20. Baswell, Christopher. Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer. Cambridge UP 1995. In Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. 16-17 (1995-96): 206-8. Classen, Albrecht, ed. Love and Eroticism in the Middle Ages. American Heritage 1995. In Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. 16-17 (1995-96): 208-9. Tharaud, Barry, trans. Beowulf. U of Colorado P, 1990. Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 13 (1993): 103-4.Literary Criticism: Encyclopedia
and Handbook Articles “J. M. Manly.” Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms, Methods, Trends. Ed. Albrecht Classen.3 vols. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2010. 3: 2511-15. “F. N. Robinson.” Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms, Methods, Trends. Ed. Albrecht Classen.3 vols. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2010. 3: 2594-99. Co-author with Marisa Sikes. “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale.” The Literary Encyclopedia (online) http://www.litencyc.com/index.php. October 2009. 9 pp. “Chaucer’s ‘Retraction’.” The Literary Encyclopedia (online) http://www.litencyc.com/index.php. June 2008. 9 pp. “Apuleius, Lucius.” Cyclopedia of World Authors, Revised Third Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1997. 82. The Clan of the Cave Bear.Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Literature, Supplement. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1997. 241-3. “Faludi, Susan.” Cyclopedia of World Authors, Revised Third Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1997. 657. “Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung.” Cyclopedia of World Authors, Revised Third Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1997. 862-3. “Navarre, Marguerite de.” Cyclopedia of World Authors, Revised Third Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1997. 1354-5. “Petrarch.” Cyclopedia of World Authors, Revised Third Edition.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1997. 1590-1. In Press Co-author with Marisa Sikes. “Augustine’s Retractationes.” A Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine from 430 to 2000. Ed. Karla Pollmann. Oxford: Oxford UP. Forthcoming, 2011. 13 pp. “The Manciple’s Prologue and Tale.” The Literary Encyclopedia (online) http://www.litencyc.com/index.php. Forthcoming May 2011. 8 pp. Translations: Monographs German translation of Death Valley: A Scenic Wonderland (Death Valley: Ein Landschaftswunder). By Steven L. Walker. Flagstaff: Canyonlands Publications, 1996. 50 pp. German translation of Everglades: Wondrous River of Life (Everglades: Faszinierender Fluß des Lebens). By Steven L. Walker and Matti P. Majorin. Scottsdale, AZ: Camelback Design Group, Inc. and Elan Publishing, 1994. 70pp. German translation of Grand Canyon: A Scenic Wonderland (Grand Canyon:
Ein Landschaftswunder). By Steven L. Walker. Flagstaff:
Canyonlands Publications, 1993. 30 pp.
Translations: Conference Papers German translation of “Christian Hebraists of the Seventeenth Century: Philosemites or Antisemites?” By Allison P. Coudert, ASU, 1995. 20 pp. German translation of “Leibniz and the Kabbala” By Allison P. Coudert, ASU, 1994. 12 pp. English translation of “Vom Massenaufstand bis zum Untergang der DDR” (From the Uprising of the Masses to the Demise of the GDR). By Wolf-Dieter Eberwein et al. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, 1992. 30 pp. Translations: Software German translation of software, Demo program, and documentation for PC Globe 5.0, Brøderbund Software, Inc., 1992.
Co-author with Gregory Castle of TheGuide to Style for the Department of English at ASU. September 1994. Updated 1996, 1997, 2000. Adapted for UNM 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009. 55 pp. “Isabella's Great Start.” Women's International Network (WIN),
Nov. 2000: (an article on water birth and midwifery in the US). Journal
is now defunct. Article available at: http://www.unm.edu/~aobermei/Scholarship/WINMagazin.html Read the part of Lady Mead and the narrator parts (Passus 2-4) in the Chaucer Studio recording of the Middle English Piers Plowman. 2009. Forthcoming.
Cathy
Robbins, “Cooking with King Richard II,” Su Casa Magazine 8.2
(2002): 95-101. ❑ CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “The Unfinished Logos: Medieval Images of the Pregnant Virgin Mary.” 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2010. “Teaching Arthur at a Minority/Majority University.” For Roundtable Discussion on “Teaching King Arthur and Ethnicity/Race.” 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2010. “Malory’s and the Vulgate Quest’s Grail of Fertility and Sterility.” Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of Puget Sound, March 2010. “Malaria in Chaucer’s Time.” Sixteenth Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Conference on “Humanity and the Natural World in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,” Arizona State University, February 2010. “The Ricardian and Gowerian Context of Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale.” Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of New Mexico, March 2009. “Cartoons, Cinema, and Cuisine: Creating Arthurian Intertexts” at the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2008. “The Rhetoric of Symbolism: The Grail of Fertility and Sterility” at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (joint with the Medieval Association of the Pacific), Vancouver, BC, April 2008. “Self-Criticism and Self-Promotion in Chaucer’s and Gower’s Prologues and Epilogues” at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2007. “Seed and Sex in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales” at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2006. “Fertile Men and Sterile Women in Arthurian Legends” at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, Westminster College, March 2006. “Food and Feast in Cleanness” at the Eleventh Annual ACMRS Conference on “Feast, Famine, and Fasting: Food and Material Consumption in Medieval and Renaissance Culture” in Tempe, Arizona, February 2005. “Censorship in The Manciple's Tale as Ovidian and Ricardian Metaphor” at the 34th UBC Medieval Workshop: Medieval Authorship: Theory and Practice, University of British Columbia, November 2004. “Of Monarchies and Movies: Fertility and Sterility Issues in Braveheart and The Mists of Avalon” at the International Conference on Medievalism, St. Louis University, October 2003. “Joachim’s Infertility in the St. Anne’s Legend” at New Perspectives on Medieval English Topics: A Conference in Honor of H. A. Kelly, UCLA, June 2003. “Virginal Offspring: Kinship Structures in the St. Anne’s and the Grail Legends” at the Annual ACMRS conference, Arizona State University, February 2003. “Postmodernism and the Press in Naomi Mitchison’s To the Chapel Perilous” at the Annual Conference on Medievalism, Northern Iowa University, October 2002. “The Lapidaries of Alfonso The Wise and Hildegard of Bingen” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2002. “Male Infertility in the St. Anne's Legend” at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of San Diego, March 2002. “Fear of Censorship: ‘The Manciple’s Tale’ as Ovidian Metaphor” at the Annual ACMRS conference, Arizona State University, February 2000. “The Lapidary Medicine of Hildegard of Bingen” at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of British Columbia, February 2000. “’The Manciple’s Tale’: A Metaphor for Chaucer’s Self-Critical Roles” at Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of Hawaii, March 1997. “Gender Differences in Medieval Auctorial Self-Criticism” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1996. “Grappling with Feminine Inspiration: Self-Critical Strategies in Petrarch's Writing” at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of San Diego, March 1996. “The Word Made Flesh: Visio vs. Vox in Female Medieval Mystics” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1995. “Narratological Intertextuality: Medieval Literary Genres and Writing in Twain’s Yankee” at the Annual Conference of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University, February 1995. “The Author and Audience of Beowulf” at the Old English Colloquium, University of California, Berkeley, March 1993. “Chaucer’s ‘Retraction’ in Its European Context” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1992. “Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European Middle Ages” at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America and the Medieval Association of the Pacific, Vancouver, April 1990.❑ “Gestating Jesus: Images of the Medieval Pregnant Virgin Mary.” Institute for Medieval Studies Works in Progress Series. December, 2010. “Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims.” Albuquerque Academy Medieval Day, November 2009, 2010. “Fertility and Sterility in the Grail Legend.” OSHER course “Holy Grail and Arthurian Legends,” UNM Extended University, October 2009. “Feasting with King Richard II.” Albuquerque Academy Medieval Day, November 2005, 2006, 2008. Workshop on “Publishing in Scholarly Journals.” Medieval Studies Student Association, UNM, April 2008. “Did the Middle Ages Burn Witches?” at the Albuquerque Academy Medieval Day, November 2007. “Witches and the Myth of the Medieval ‘Burning Times’” at the Institute for Medieval Studies Spring Lecture Series, UNM April 2007. “Participation and Ownership in the Literature Classroom” at the First Annual Success in the Classroom Conference. February 2006. “Feasting with King Richard II” at the Albuquerque Academy Medieval Day, November 2005, 2006. “Of Monarchies and Movies: Fertility and Sterility in Braveheart and The Mists of Avalon” for the Gender Studies Colloquium at the University of Munich, July 2004, and for the Feminist Research Institute, UNM, February 2004. “Medievalist: A Career Path” at Roosevelt Middle School, Tijeras/Cedar Crest, May 2004. Workshop on “Curriculum Vitae Writing” (with Jay Rubenstein/History) for the Medieval Studies Student Association, UNM, April 2004. “The Medieval Christian World View” for the Integrating Seminar, College of Santa Fe, April 2001-2005. “Medieval Medicine” at the Albuquerque Academy Medieval Day, November 2002, 2003. “Chaucer’s Nuns, Wives, and Virgins” at the IMS Outreach Seminar on “Chaucer in Context: Society, Politics, and Gender” for Secondary School Teachers, UNM, October 2003. “Transgressing with Pen and Sword: Medieval Warrior Women” for Warrior Women, UNM, October 2003. “Self-Knowledge and Self-Promotion” for the Medieval Academy of America Roundtable Discussion on Graduate Student Professionalization at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2003. Workshop on “Abstract Writing, Paper Presentation, and Session Chairing” for the Medieval Studies Student Association, UNM, February 2003. “Anne’s Seed: Joachim’s Infertility in the St. Anne’s Legend” at the English Department Faculty Colloquium Series, November 2002. “The Matter of Araby in Chaucer and Medieval Poetry” at the IMS Seminar on “Chaucer, Art, and Islam” for Secondary School Teachers, UNM, October 2001. Led Discussion on Sexuality and Gender Roles in the Film Chasing Amy for MU Student Activities at ASU, November 1998. Led Discussion on Sexuality and Gender Roles in the Film The Seven-Year Itch for MU Student Activities at ASU, October 1996. “Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘Flowering Judas’” at All Saints’ Catholic Newman Student Center at ASU, October 19
Very strong reading knowledge of Classical
and Medieval Latin, Old and Middle High German, Old English, French,
Italian, and Spanish.
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