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Laurel Amtower

Department of English and Comparative Literature
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182

Education:

  • Ph.D. University of Washington, 1993
  • M.A. University of Washington, 1989
  • B.A. University of California, Irvine, 1987

Academic Employment

  • Professor, San Diego State University, 2004-present
  • Associate Professor, San Diego State University, 2000-2004
  • Assistant Professor, San Diego State University 1997-2000
  • Assistant Professor, CSU San Marcos 1994-97

Research and Teaching Interests

Medieval Literature, Folklore and Mythology, Literary Theory

Publications

Books:

  • Engaging Words: The Culture of the Reading in the Later Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000
  • The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England: Her Life and Representation (edited). With Dorothea Kehler. Arizona: MRTS, 2003
  • A Companion to Chaucer and His Contemporaries. With Jacqueline Vanhoutte. Ontario: Broadview Press, under contract.

Articles:

  • "Private Desire and Public Identity in Trobairitz Poetry." Dalhousie French Review (2005): forthcoming.
  • The Challenge of Philology and Comparative Study of the Late Middle Ages." YCGL 51 (2003-4): 7-16.
  • "Chaucer's Sely Widows," in The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England, Arizona: MRTS, 2003, pp. 119-132.
  • "A Marriage of True Minds" (with Dorothea Kehler, Sherry Little, Laura Emery, Jeanette Shumaker, and Jeanie Grant Moore), Issues in Writing 11.2 (2001): 168-90.
  • "Authorizing the Reader in Chaucer's House of Fame," Philological Quarterly 79.3 (2000): 273-91
  • "'This Idol Thou Ador'st: The Iconography of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore," Papers on Language and Literature 34 (1998): 179-206
  • "The Ethics of Subjectivity in Hamlet," Studies in the Humanities 21 (1996): 120-33
  • "Mimetic Desire and the Misappropriation of the Ideal in the Knight's Tale," Exemplaria 8 (1996): 125-44
  • "Some Codicological Considerations for the Interpretation of the Junius Poems," English Language Notes 30 (1993): 1-10
  • "Courtly Code and Conjointure: The Rhetoric of Identity in Erec et Enide," Neophilologus 77 (1993): 179-89

Book Reviews and Notes:

  • "Review of Periodical Articles on Hamlet, 2001-2002." Ed. Dorothea Kehler. Hamlet Studies 25 (2003): forthcoming.
  • "Andrew Cowell:. At Play in the Tavern: Signs, Coins, and Bodies in the Middle Ages," Envoi 10.2 (2001, publ. 2003), 183-185.
  • "Review of Periodical Articles on Hamlet, 2000-2001." Ed. Dorothea Kehler. Hamlet Studies 24 (2002): 138-149.
  • "Review of Periodical Articles on Hamlet, 1999-2000." Ed. Dorothea Kehler. Hamlet Studies 23 (2001): 120-37.
  • "Edward I. Condren: Chaucer and the Energy of Creation," JEGP 100.3 (2001): 435-37
  • "Gayle Margherita: The Romance of Origins," Envoi 7.1 (1999): 58-62
  • "Peter Beidler: Masculinities in Chaucer," Envoi 7.2 (1998): 113-21
  • "Joyce Coleman: Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France," Envoi 6.2 (1997): 170-76
  • "Seth Lehrer: Literary History and the Challenge of Philology," Envoi 6.1 (1997): 96-103
  • "Jane Chance, ed.: Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages" (Review), Arthuriana 7.1 (1997): 146-7
  • "M. Victoria Guerin: The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy," English Language Notes 34 (1996): 92-3
  • "Steven F. Kruger: Dreaming in the Middle Ages," Chaucer Yearbook 4 (1996): 61-6
  • "Susan Crane: Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," Aestel 3 (1995): 97-105

Fiction:

  • Maggie Starr and the Demon Cat (serialized novel), Asahi News 22-23 (November 13, 1994-April 1995

Conference Papers and Presentations

  • "Shakespeare and the Sandman," Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, March 2005
  • "Zombies and the Craft of Poetry in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess," TEMA, September 2004.
  • "Shakespeare and the Single Woman," Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, April 2004.
  • "The Idea of Shakespeare in Neil Gaiman and the Graphic Novel," 11th Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, October 2003
  • "Transcending Constraints: Agency and Value in Early Modern Drama" (panel co-chair), Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, April 2003
  • "Skeptical Bodies: Wives, Midwives, and Alewives in the Chester Cycle," Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, March 2002
  • "Chaucer's Widows," Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, April, 2001.
  • "The Image of the Book in the Middle Ages," Early British Literature Colloquium, University of Northern Texas, November 2000
  • "'To dresse yt in best fassion': Rethinking the Reformation of the Mystery Plays," SCMLA 57th Annual Meeting, November 2000
  • "Reforming Readers in the Chester Mystery Cycle," Shakespeare Association of America, April 2000
  • "The Image of Reading in Fourteenth-Century Books of Hours," Thirty-Fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1999
  • "Tradition, Authority, and the Individual Reader in Chaucer's House of Fame," Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Western Conference on British Studies, October, 1997
  • "Reading and Foresight in Troilus and Criseyde," Twelfth International Conference on Medievalism, August, 1997
  • "The Disintegration of the Romance Ideal in Malory's England," Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, September 1996
  • "Tempering the Will in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, March 1996
  • "So watz I rauyste wyth glymme pure": Dreaming and Self- Knowledge in The Pearl," Annual Conference of the Texas Medieval Association, September 1995
  • "'I, Conscience, Knowe this, for Kynde Wit Me Taughte': Reappraising the Subject in the Texts of Piers Plowman," International Medieval Congress at Leeds, July 1995
  • "Imagination and the Poetics of the Understanding in The Pearl," 30th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1995
  • "Language and Psychology in the Dream of the Wife of Bath," Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, March 1995
  • "'This Idol Thou Ador'st': Iconographic Misrepresentation in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore," Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, March 1994
  • "Mimetic Desire and the Misappropriation of the Ideal in The Knight's Tale," Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, March 1994
  • "Medieval Dream Symbolism and the Nun's Priest's Tale," 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1993
  • "The Wife of Bath and the Forging of Identity," Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference, March 1993
  • "Text and Audience: A Codicological Reading of the Junius Manuscript," 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1992
  • "The Twelfth-Century Theologians and the Concept of Allegory," Conference on Christianity and Literature, May 1992
  • "The Vernon Lyrics and the Resistance to Poetic Discourse," Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, February 1992

Honors and Awards

  • Warner Faculty Excellence Award, San Diego State University, 2005
  • Cal Microgrant, 2005
  • Warner Faculty Excellence Award, San Diego State University, 2003
  • Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Grant, SDSU, 2001
  • Outstanding Faculty Award, SDSU, 2000
  • Faculty Development Grant, SDSU, 2000
  • RSCA Grant, SDSU,1997-98
  • Faculty Development Grant, SDSU, 1998
  • TULIP Technology Grant, 1995
  • Susannah J. McMurphy Dissertation Fellowship, 1993
  • Colin J. Slim Memorial Scholarship, 1985

Service

  • Academic Senate, 1994-97
  • Senate Executive Committee, 1996-97
  • General Education Committee, 1996-97
  • Library Advisory Committee, 1995-97
  • Student Grievance Committee, 1996-97
  • College of Arts and Sciences Executive Committee, 1994-5
  • Humanities Core, 1995-97
  • Operation Co-op (Academic Partnerships in the Community), 1996
  • Writing Center, 1995-97
  • Honor's Program Coordinator, 1997-98
  • Faculty Development Grant Committee, 1998, 2000
  • English and Comparative Literature Curriculum Committee, 1998-2000
  • Advisory Committee 1999-2000
  • English Club Advisor, 1998-2000
  • Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee, 1999-2002
  • Commencement Committee, 1998-present
  • Sigma Tau Delta Advisor, 1999-present
  • College of Arts and Letters Undergraduate Council, 2001-present
  • ACLA 2003 Conference Co-chair

Organizations

  • American Comparative Literature Association
  • Early Book Society
  • Modern Language Association
  • Medieval Association of the Pacific
  • New Chaucer Society
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Shakespeare Association of America
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