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Literary Criticism : Books

The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European Middle Ages . Editions Rodopi's Series “Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft.” Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999. 314 pp.
Reviews: Arcadia: Zeitschrift für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 34 (1999): 426-29; IASL online (1999) http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/rezensio/liste/classen.htm (both reviews are in German); Medium Aevum 70 (2001): 364; Speculum 78:1 (2003): 236-9; Review forthcoming in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.

Literary Criticism : Chapter in a Book

"Chaucer's 'Retraction'" in Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales (New Chaucer Society Project). Eds. Robert Correale and Mary Hamel. Vol. 2. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. In press and forthcoming Summer 2005. 37 pp.

"Joachim's Infertility in the St. Anne's Legend" in 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" in Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Ed. William Gentrup. Turnholt: Brepols, 1998. 223-39. Review: The Medieval Review (online) http://www.hti.umich.edu

Co-author with Robert E. Bjork of "Date, Author, and Audience of Beowulf" in A Beowulf Handbook. Eds. Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997. 13-34.
Reviews: Speculum; The Medieval Review (online) http://www.hti.umich.edu

In Progress

"The Middle Ages: Not the Witch 'Burning Times'" in Medieval Misconceptions. Eds. Bryon Grigsby and Steve Harris. Under consideration by Routledge. 13 pp.

Literary Criticism : Articles

"Postmodernism and the Press in Naomi Mitchison's To the Chapel Perilous."Studies in Medievalism 13 (2003): 237-58. In press and forthcoming Spring/Summer 2004.

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): 11-16.

In Progress

"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.

"Fear of Censorship: The Manciple's Tale as Ovidian Metaphor." To be submitted to Chaucer Review. 20 pp.

Literary Criticism : Book Reviews

Frantzen, Allen J. The Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War. U of Chicago P, 2004. Forthcoming in The Medieval Review (online) http://www.hti.umich.edu. May 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. Forthcoming in Quidditas 23 (2002). Summer 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.

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 in Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 13 (1993): 103-4.

Literary Criticism : Encyclopedia Articles

"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.

Other Publications

Co-author with Gregory Castle of The Guide to Style for the Department of English at ASU. September 1994. Updated 1996, 1997, 2000. Adapted for UNM 2001. 50 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