LOUISE M. BISHOP Curriculum vitae

212 Chapman Hall
Clark Honors College
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1293
(541) 346-0733, -5414
fax (541) 346-0125
lmbishop@oregon.uoregon.edu

Education | Employment | Publications | Current projects | Reviews | Conference presentations | Public lectures | Awards | Teaching | Other professional activities | Memberships | University service | References

Education

• Ph.D. 1984, Fordham University

Dissertation: Will, Inheritance, Possession and the King: Theories of Redemption and Canon and King's Law in Piers Plowman, Joseph E. Grennen, mentor.

• M.A. 1980, Fordham University
• B.A. 1978, Fairleigh Dickinson University, summa cum laude, Honors College, achievement scholarship

Employment

• June 2008 to present -- Associate Dean, Clark Honors College
• September 2007 to present -- Associate Professor of Literature, Clark Honors College
• September 2001 to September 2007--Assistant Professor of Literature, Clark Honors College
• Jan. 1997-June 2001 -- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon
• 1993-June 2001 -- Senior Instructor, Department of English, University of Oregon
• 1987-1993 -- Instructor, Department of English, University of Oregon
• 1985-1987 -- Associate Dean, Graduate School of Business Administration, Fordham University
• 1983-85 -- Assistant Dean, Graduate School of Business Administration, Fordham University
• 1979-83 -- Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Fordham University

Publications (in print)

• Words, Stones, and Herbs: the Healing Word in Medieval and Early Modern England. Syracuse University Press, November 2007
• "The myth of the flat earth: Did medieval people really believe in a flat, rather than a round, earth?" Misconceptions about the Middle Ages , eds. Bryon L. Grigsby and Stephen J. Harris, Routledge, 2008. 97-101.
• "Raising Authority: Father Chaucer and the Vivification of Print," JEGP 106,3 (July 2007): 336-363
• "‘Of Goddes pryvetee nor of his wyf': The Confusion of Orifices in ‘The Miller’s Tale,’" Texas Studies in Language and Literature 44:3 (Fall 2002): 231-46. Reprinted in Modern Critical Views, published by Facts on File.
• "Queering Medieval Law and Piers Plowman," Yearbook of Langland Studies 15 (2002): 18-24
• "Dame Study and Women's Literacy," Yearbook of Langland Studies 12 (1998): 97-115.
• "Will and the Law of Property in Piers Plowman," Yearbook of Langland Studies 10 (1996): 23-41.
• "Hearing God's Voice: Kind Wit's Call to Labor in Piers Plowman," in The Work of Work, eds. Allen Frantzen and Douglas Moffat, Boydell and Brewer, 1994. 191-205.

(to appear)

• "A Trace of Chaucer in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale" (26 pages in typescript), Performing the Medieval in Shakespeare's Plays, edited by Martha Driver and Sid Ray, McFarland Press (2009).
• "Dangerous Translation in the Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale," The Chaucer Journal (to appear 2009, 43 pages in typescript)

(under review)

• "Teaching Piers Plowman," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching ( 11 pages in typescript)
• " Chaucer as Icon," Icons of the Middle Ages, ed. Lister Matheson, Greenwood Press (12,800-word manuscript)

Current Projects

• Preparing "Old and new, ideal and real: George Eliot's Middlemarch and Chaucer's 'Nun's Priest's Tale'" for submission to College Literature (invited submission)
• "Piers Plowman and the gendered imagination of public space," collaborative essay in preparation for Yearbook of Langland Studies
• "Making Magic in Schiffman's Sorceress," in preparation for submission to Femspec
• "Sibling Relations in The God of Small Things: Raiki, protection, and incest"

Reviews

• John Hines, Voices in the Past: English Literature and Archaeology, JEGP (January 2008): 116-119
• The Middle Ages at Work: Practicing Labor in Late Medieval England, Kellie Robertson and Michael Uebel, eds. , The Yearbook of Langland Studies 20 (2007): 235-240
• Julia Boffey, Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions: An Anthology, The Medieval Review (electronic journal-http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/), June 2005
• Elizabeth Fowler, Literary Character: The Human Figure in Early English Writing, The Medieval Review (electronic journal-http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/), July 2004
• Carolyn Collette, Species, Phantasms, and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in "The Canterbury Tales." The Medieval Review (electronic journal--http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/), July 2002.
• Erik Jager, The Book of the Heart. The Medieval Review (electronic journal--http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/), September 2001
• T. L. Burton, ed. Sidrak and Bokkus: A parallel-text edition from Bodleian Library, Ms Laud Misc. 559 and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793. The Medieval Review (electronic journal--http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/), August 2000
• R.W.McConchie, Lexicography and Physicke: the Record of Sixteenth-Century English Medical Terminology. Prolepsis: The Heidelberg Review of English Studies (electronic journal--http://www.as.uni-hd.de/prolepsis/00_4_bis.html), April 2000
• Douglas Parker, The praier and complaynte of the plowman unto Christe. The Medieval Review (electronic journal--http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/), October 1998
• Evelyn Edson, Mapping Time and Space. Mercator's World Magazine, September/October 1998
• David Wallace, Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms. The Medieval Review (electronic journal--http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/), April 1998
• Carolyn Larrington, Women and Writing in Medieval Europe. Medieval Feminist Newsletter 24 (1998)

Conference Presentations

• "The Reading Heart from Reginald Pecock to Thomas Elyot,"Cognitive Allegory Workshop, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 26 June, 2009. Invited participant. (Conference website)
• "The Reading Heart from Reginald Pecock to Thomas Elyot," Medieval Association of the Pacific, Albuqurque, NM, March 2009.
• Teaching panel on Piers Plowman, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2008
• "Reclaiming the Healing Word," 18th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2007. (Conference website)
• "Similitude and difference: “verray matrimonye” and affinity in Piers Plowman and The Reule of Cristen Religion," Fourth International Piers Plowman Conference May 17-19, 2007, University of Pennsylvania. (Conference website)
  
• "Natural passion and moral virtue: Pecock and ‘Truth'," New Chaucer Society Congress, New York City, July 2006
• "Early Modern Medicine: Self-help and State Authority in Thomas Elyot's Castel of Helth (1541)," Medicine Across Cultures: 600-1600, the Nineteenth Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference, New York City, December 2004
• “Piers Plowman and the gendered imagination of public space,” Third International Langland Conference, Birmingham, England, July 2003
• "'And you shall be whole': Vernacular medical reading and cure," Leeds International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2003
• "Old and new, ideal and real: George Eliot's Middlemarch and Chaucer's 'Nun's Priest's Tale,'" Modern Language Association, New York City, December 2002
• "A lady's ‘verily' ‘s as potent as a lord's": Counsel and Contraries in The Tale of Melibee and The Winter's Tale," New Chaucer Society Congress, Boulder, Colorado, July 2002
• "Noli me tangere and a medical recipe: discursive intersections," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2002
• "Langland's Physicians and Illness as Metaphor," Medieval Academy, Tempe, AZ, March 2001
• "London Contexts: Medicine," New Chaucer Society congress, London, July 2000
• "Healing Words, Healing Images: Women's Work as Professional Healers," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2000
• Invited respondent, Second International Langland Conference, Asheville, NC, July 1999
• "Reading, Cure, and Gender: The Case of Late Medieval English Medical and Poetic Texts," Vernacularity: The Politics of Language and Style, annual conference of the Medieval/Renaissance Seminar at the University of Western Ontario, March 1999
• "Explosive Vernacular in the Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale and Passus X of Piers Plowman," SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, November 1998
• "Chaucer and Langland: the Case of the Dream Vision," Panel organizer, New Chaucer Society, Sorbonne, Paris, July 1998. Click here for panel website.
• Respondent, Hildegard of Bingen conference, University of Oregon, February 1998
• "Latin and Vernacular: Roger Bacon and the Contexts of Langland's Reading," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1998
• "The Homeopathic Metaphor and Medieval Medical Texts," Oregon Humanities Center, January 1998
• "‘Mesure is medicine’: the Intersection of Cure and Curae in Piers Plowman," Medieval Association of the Pacific, Hawaii, March 1997
• "Teaching Chaucer and Langland," New Chaucer Society, Los Angeles, July 1996
• "Teaching Piers Plowman," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1996
• "‘Aske the heighe weie’: Dame Study and the Practice of Literacy in Piers Plowman," Berkeley, April 1996
• "'Of Goddes pryvetee nor of his wyf': the Confusion of Orifices in Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale,'" New Chaucer Society Congress, Dublin, July 1994
• "Will and the Law of Property in Piers Plowman," Leeds (U.K.) International Medieval Conference, July 1994
• "Pride and the Subversion of Hierarchy in Genesis B and the English Fall of Man Plays," Medieval Association of the Pacific, March 1994
• "The Call of the Plow: Religious Work and Religious Metaphor in the Fourteenth Century," Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1992
• "Medieval Law in Piers Plowman," UO Humanities Center work-in-Progress series, February 1991
• "Langland's Use of Law in Passus XVIII of Piers Plowman," Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 1984
• "Maegth: Women and Kindred in Beowulf," Ohio Conference on Medieval Studies, 1980

Public lectures

• "The Blue Light in the Living Room: Do the Media Promote or Discourage Tribalism?" Fortnightly Club, Eugene, March 2008
• "Family Values as Political Concept," Fortnightly Club, Eugene, April 2002, published by Mother's Movement Online, April 2004
• "Making a Difference," Mortarboard Induction, April 2001
• "The Medicine of Gender," Retired Professors Association, University of Oregon, April 1999
• "Making Pericles Work," Learning-in-Retirement, Eugene, OR , January 1999
• "Campfire Songs and the Disappearance of Public Singing," Fortnightly Club, Eugene, May 1997
• "A Labor of Love: Women Scholars and the Middle Ages," the University Women's Association, October 1991
• "Medieval Cosmology," two lectures for "Understanding the Middle Ages," an institute sponsored by the Oregon Council for the Humanities, June 1991
• "Maker of All There Is: Sacred History as Story," Pendleton, Bend and Ashland, sponsored by the Oregon Council for the Humanities, August 1989

Awards

• Oregon Humanities Center Fellowship, Fall 2003
• New Faculty Summer Research Award, Summer 2002
• Mortarboard Professor of the Month, March 2000
• Faculty Writing Across the Curriculum grant, Winter and Spring 2000
• Center for the Study of Women in Society Research Grant, Winter 1999
• ITSSC Short Course (one of 12 faculty selected for program), Summer 1997
• NCSA Avignon program, Fall 1996
• NEH Summer Institute on Chaucer and Langland, 1995
• Ersted Teaching Award, 1993, University of Oregon
• Planning Grant, 1992, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Oregon
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1984, Fordham University
• Charles Donahue Prize for Medieval Literature, 1981, Fordham University

Teaching
Follow links to the website on Medicine and Gender from http://fhp.uoregon.edu/
Read the interview about teaching at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~tep/lizard/bishop.html

Medicine/science and literature, Old English literature, Middle English literature, medieval drama, Elizabethan literature

• HC 424: Pens and Needles
• ENG 620: Medieval Dream Visions
• ENG 427: Chaucer
• ENG 410: The Idea of the Vernacular
• ENG 410: Middle English Mystics
• ENG 204: Survey of English Literature, Medieval through early Renaissance
• ENG 205: Survey of English Literature, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• ENG 399: Medieval Dream Visions; Middle English Survey
• ENG 207, 208: Shakespeare
• HUM 210: Introduction to the Middle Ages
• ENG 199: The Middle Ages and the Movies

World literature, genre courses, international courses, film

• ENG 308: Epic and Romance
• HC 221 , 222, 223: Honors College World Literature
• ENG 104, 105, 106: Introduction to Literature
• ENG 108: World Literature
• ICOL 101: Intercultural Identities

Other professional activities

• External Reader, Ashgate Publishing (1999), Exemplaria (2005), Oxford University Press (2007)
• Councillor, Medieval Association of the Pacific, 1997-2000
• Director, "Teaching the Past in the Present" project, an initiative of the Feminist Humanities Project, Center for the Study of Women in Society, 1997-present; see the Teaching and Tea website
• Member-at-Large, Alpha Chapter of Oregon, Phi Beta Kappa, 1999-2000
• Organizer, "Teaching the Past in the Present," CSWS-sponsored conference, October, 1997
• Organizer, "Margins and the Medieval Imagination," manuscript exhibition at the University of Oregon Museum of Art, February 27 through April 24, 1994
• Organizer, "Peripheral Visions: Reading the Margins in the Middle Ages," conference with 27 invited speakers at the University of Oregon, April 7-9, 1994
• Organizer, fall medievalists' retreats, University of Oregon, 1990-93

Memberships

• Modern Language Association
• Medieval Academy
• Medica, the Society for the Study of Medieval Medicine and Healing
• International Langland Society
• Medieval Association of the Pacific
• New Chaucer Society
• Alpha of Oregon Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa (President, 1998-99, Member-at-Large 1999-2002, Membership Chair 2001-02)
• Friends of the University Library
• Friends of the Museum of Natural History

University service

• Campus planning advisory group for west campus, September 2001
• Teaching Effectiveness Program Advisory Group, 2000-01
• CSWS Executive Board, 1999-2001
• International Resource Center Advisory Committee, 2000-02
• University Distinguished Awards committee, 1999, 2000
• CSWS Grant Awards committee, 1998-99
• Board member, Friends of the University Libraries (1992-99, president 1997-98)
• Inaugural Event, Honors College, September 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
• NCSA Review panel, Angers, 1997
• NCSA Interview panel, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001
• University grievance committee, 1990-91, 1995-96 (chair)
• University Child Care and Family Support Committee, 1991-1998 (chair, 1992-95)
• English Department Council, 1993-95
• University Human Resources administrator review, Spring 1994
• GTF Teaching Award Committee, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

References

• Prof. C. David Benson, Dept. of English, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
• Prof. John M. Bowers, Dept. of English, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5011
• Prof. Hoyt N. Duggan, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903
• Prof. Karen Ford, Dept. of English, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1286
• Prof. Elizabeth Fowler, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903
• Prof. James Simpson, Dept. of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

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