LOUISE M. BISHOP
Curriculum vitae
Clark Honors College
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1293
(541) 346-0733, -5414
fax (541) 346-0125
lmbishop@oregon.uoregon.edu
Dissertation: Will, Inheritance, Possession and the King: Theories of Redemption and Canon and King's Law in Piers Plowman, Joseph E. Grennen, mentor.
Words, Stones, and Herbs: the Healing Word in Medieval and Early Modern England. Syracuse University Press, 2007. 250 pages
“Piers Plowman: Text and Context,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 21, 1 (Spring 2014): 27-36.
"Raising Authority: Father Chaucer and the Vivification of Print," JEGP 106, 3 (July 2007): 336-63.
"‘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 (2006).
"Dangerous Translation in the Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale," The Chaucer Journal. Accepted by the editor, Jean Jost, in 2005. 43 pages in typescript.
"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.
"Reginald Pecock's reading heart and the health of body and soul," Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture, ed. Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015. 139-58.
“English and Latin in late medieval England: what medical and poetic texts tell us,” Latin Language and World Cultures, ed. Dasappan Vattathil, S.J., The Media House, Delhi [India], 2013: 89-100.
“Chaucer,” in Icons of the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia of Medieval Masters, ed. Lister Matheson. Greenwood Press, 2011. 2 volumes. Volume 1, 175-204.
"A Trace of Chaucer in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale," Shakespeare and the Middle Ages, eds. Martha Driver and Sid Ray. McFarland Press, 2009. 232-244.
"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. Paperback edition in process.
"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.
“Gottfredson steers UO in the right direction,” Eugene Register Guard, June 20, 2013, http://registerguard.com/rg/opinion/30035674-78/university-faculty-state-board-public.html.csp
“Belonging in Belongings,” Oregon Humanities, summer 2009: 29-32.
“Boomers’ children are born leaders,” Eugene Register Guard, November 13, 2008, http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/opinion/2474467-47/story.csp
“Family values as political concept,” Mothers Movement Online, April 2004, http://www.mothersmovement.org/features/family_values/family_values.htm
"Old and new, ideal and real:
George Eliot's Middlemarch and Chaucer's 'Nun's Priest's Tale'"
"Piers Plowman and the gendered imagination of public space"
"Making Magic in Schiffman's Sorceress"
"Sibling Relations in The
God of Small Things: Raiki, protection, and incest"
Lawrence Warner, The Myth of “Piers Plowman”: Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive, Notes and Queries (2016): 113-4.
Emily Steiner, Reading Piers Plowman, Yearbook of Langland Studies 28 (2015): 239-245.
Jennifer Vaught, Rhetorics of Bodily Disease and Health in Medieval and Early Modern England, JEGP 112.2 (April 2013): 246-248.
Lawrence Warner, The Lost History of Piers Plowman, The Medieval Review (on-line publication), October 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/13592
William F. Woods, Chaucerian Spaces: Spatial Poetics in Chaucer's Opening Tales, Speculum 84 (2009): 1122-3.
John Hines, Voices in the Past: English Literature and Archaeology, JEGP 107 (2008): 116-119.
The Middle Ages at Work, eds. Michael Uebel and Kellie Robertson. 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://hdl.handle.net/2022/5306), July 2002
Erik Jager, The Book of the Heart. The Medieval Review (electronic journal--http://hdl.handle.net/2022/5079), 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://hdl.handle.net/2022/4811), 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://hdl.handle.net/2022/4587), 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://hdl.handle.net/2022/4548), April 1998
Carolyn Larrington, Women and Writing in Medieval Europe. Medieval Feminist Newsletter 25 (1998)
“Chaucer’s Line and Rising Theater: Transhistorical London in G. A. Sala’s ‘Wat Tyler, MP, An Operatic Extravaganza’ (1869),” New Chaucer Society Congress, London, July 2016 (withdrawn)
“Sic transit gloria: The Knight’s Tale and The Two Noble Kinsmen,” New Chaucer Society Congress, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2014
"'Gnawen God with the gorge': the ethics of excess and the limits of imagination," Leeds International Conference, UK, July 2011
"Desire in Langland and Shakespeare," Fifth International Piers Plowman Society Congress, Oxford, UK, April 2011
"Chronology as History: Chaucer, Langland, Shakespeare," New Chaucer Society Congress, Sienna, Italy, July 2010
"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
“The History of Comedy,” Fornightly Club, Eugene, November 2016
“Turn the Board,” Round Table Club, Eugene, November 2014
"Literature into Film: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,¨ Fortnightly Club, Eugene, October 2012
"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
Herman Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2014
Lorry Lokey Humanities and Science initiative, with Daniel Rosenberg and Samantha Hopkins, 2008-9
Oregon Research and Grant-writing workshop, June 2006
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
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
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
External Reader, Notes and Queries (2017), Viator (2015), Modern Philology (2013), Chaucer Review (2012, 2015), AVISTA (2012), Yearbook of Langland Studies (2011), Ashgate Publishing (1999, 2010), Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (2006), 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
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, Vice President 2012-14)
Friends of the Museum of Natural History
Membership on dissertation committees in the English Department:
Alison Ganze Langdon: PhD awarded December 2002
Sharity Nelson: PhD awarded September 2013
Chelsea Henson: PhD awarded June 2012
Timothy Asay: PhD awarded December 2014
William Fogarty: PhD awarded June 2015
William Driscoll: PhD awarded Spring 2017
Alexis Kielb
Faculty Advisory Committee (elected), 2011-13, co-chair 2012-13
Senate Executive Committee, 2012-13
Clark Honors College Dean Search Co
mmittee, 2012-13
College Scholars Advisory Board, CAS, 2011-14
Site license advisory committee, 2009-11
AFAB Study Abroad Committee, 2010-12
Faculty Advisory Council (elected), 2011-13
College Scholars steering committee, 2011-13
Panelist, "Memory, Belief, Ritual," Art History Association spring symposium, April 2010
Associate Deans working group, 2009-11, convened by Vice Provost Lisa Freinkel 2013-14
Blackboard advisory group, 2008-11, LMS (Blackboard) review committee, convened by Dean of Libraries Deb Carver 2013-14
Explore identity (Michele Norris visit) steering committee 2013-14
Stamps Scholarship review committee 2013-14
CSWS Executive Committee, 2008-10
Honors College futures committee, Julne 2007
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
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
'Tres digiti scribunt. totum corpusque laborat.
Scribere qui nescit. nullum putet esse laborem.
Dum digiti scribunt uix cetera membra quiescunt'
British Library, ms. Harley 3013 (ASMMF 272), f. 96r
This page created by Louise M. Bishop Last updated 28 September 2014