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Mason Stokes, Associate Professor of English

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GreenspanKate Greenspan
Associate Professor

B.A., Skidmore College
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Graduate work:  Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany (Medieval Studies)

Office: Palamountain 324
Phone:(518) 580-5167
Email: kgreensp@skidmore.edu



Teaching and Research Interests:

  • Chaucer
  • Medieval Drama
  • History of the English Language and Imagination
  • Manuscript Studies
  • Orality, Aurality and Literacy in the Middle Ages

Courses Taught:

  • SSP 100: The Nature of Comedy
  • EN 105: The Beast Within: Animals and Humans in the Middle Ages
  • EN 105: The Debate About Women in the Middle Ages
  • EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • EN 229: Special Studies: Introduction to Medieval Literature
  • EN 229: Special Studies: Stories of English
  • EN 229: Special Studies: Medieval Lyric
  • EN 341: Medieval Drama
  • EN 341: Medieval Romance
  • EN 342: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
  • EN 342: Chaucer and the Classical World
  • EN 363: The Ethics and Arts of Love

 Selected Publications:

  • Magdalena von Freiburg: Selections from her Vitæ and Meditative Works, forthcoming from Boydell & Brewer.
  • "Autohagiography," in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. Margaret Schaus, Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 12, (New York 2006) pp. 53-56.