Professor Lauren KieferProfessor Lauren KieferEnglish Department
Champlain Valley Hall
English 444 - Arthurian Legend
English 310 - Middle English Literature
English 160 - Introduction to Poetry
English 101 - Writing about Biology
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, 1985-1994
Ph.D. in Medieval Studies
Major Subject: Middle English literature
Minor Subjects: Latin literature, Old French literature
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 1981-1985
B.A. with Distinction in English and Classics
SUNY PLATTSBURGH, August 1994-present
Assistant Professor, Department of English
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, August 1993-January 1994
Lecturer, J.S. Knight Writing Program
Modern Language Association
John Gower Society
Societas Ovidiana (president, June 1998 - May 1999)
"Breaking the Mold: How John Gower Secularizes the Exemplum," Mediaevalia 23.1 (forthcoming).
"Selections from Confessio Amantis," chap. 3 of Medieval Literature for Children, ed. Daniel Kline (New York: Routledge, 2003), 45-61.
"War Romanticized: The Evolution of the Chivalric Ideal," in War and Its Uses: Conflict and Creativity, ed. Bruce A. Butterfield and Jürgen Kleist, Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities 6 (New York: Peter Lang, 1999) 1-36.
"'A Good War Spoiled,' Part Two: Troy in the Late Middle Ages," in The Spoils of War: The Bright and Bitter Fruits of Human Conflict, ed. Bruce A. Butterfield and Jürgen Kleist, Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities 5 (New York: Peter Lang, 1997) 13-39.
"My Family First: Draft-Dodging Parents in the Confessio Amantis," in Children
and Family in the Middle Ages, Essays in Medieval
Studies 12 (Chicago: Illinois Medieval Association, 1996) 55-68.
"No Hollywood Ending: Ovidian Satire in Two Medieval Lover's Confessions," Thirty-eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7 to 10, 2003.
"Perverse Ovid and Kindly Gower," Thirty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6 to 9, 1999.
"That Queer Monster, the Artist: The Fate of Pygmalion, Narcissus and Iphis in Gower's Confessio Amantis," 114th Convention of the Modern Language Association of America, San Francisco, California, December 27 to 30, 1998.
"John Gower as Ovidian Poet: The Case of Penelope's Letter," Thirty-second International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 8 to 11, 1997.
"The Subversive Exemplum," Thirty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9 to 12, 1996.
"Towards a More Than Carnal Union: Desire for Wholeness in the Confessio Amantis," 111th Convention of the Modern Language Association of America, Chicago, Illinois, December 27 to 30, 1995.
"My Family First: Draft-Dodging Parents in the Confessio Amantis," Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association, Northern Illinois University, February 24 and 25, 1995.
Chair, "Ovidian Arts of Love," Thirty-sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 3 to 6, 2001.
Chair, "Transforming Romance--Romance Transformations," Thirty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6 to 9, 1999.
Organizer, "Ovid Moralized, Immoralized, and Immortalized I," Thirty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6 to 9, 1999.
Organizer, "Ovid Moralized, Immoralized, and Immortalized II: The Ovide Moralisé," Thirty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6 to 9, 1999.
President, Societas Ovidiana, June 1998 - May 1999.
Organizer and Chair, "Ovid's Metamorphoses: Medieval Translations and Transformations," Thirty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7 to 10, 1998.
Organizer, "Medieval Studies and Computer Assisted Instruction," Thirty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7 to 10, 1998.
"Pygmalion: Satire of a Poet," Champlain Valley Hall Colloquium, Plattsburgh SUNY, November 29, 2000.
"Innocents or Impostors?: Lesbians in Classical Literature," Women's Studies Forum, Plattsburgh SUNY, September 16, 1999.
"War Romanticized: The Evolution of the Chivalric Ideal," Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Series Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities, Plattsburgh SUNY, October 2 to 4, 1997.
"The Miller's Tale" (adapted, narrated, and coached), Studio Theatre, Plattsburgh SUNY, September 27, 1997.
"Lyrics in Honor of Spring," Stafford Middle School Renaissance Faire, Plattsburgh, April 26, 1997.
"Nauplius and Palamedes: The Sordid Underside of the Trojan War," Fifth Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium in the Series Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities, Plattsburgh SUNY, March 3 and 4, 1995.
modern French
Middle English
medieval and classical Latin
Old French
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