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Mary-Jo Arn

 

e-mail: MA@MedievalAcademy.org
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Last Updated: 2 Feb 11


EDUCATION

 

Medieval Certificate, State University of New York, Binghamton
Ph.D., State University of New York, Binghamton
Dissertation: "The Function of Duality and Trinity in the Structure of Piers Plowman"


EXPERIENCE

2011–

Associate Editor for Reviews, Speculum, Medieval Academy of America

2000–2011

Book Review Manager, Speculum, and Editor, Medieval Academy News, Medieval Academy of America

1998–1999

Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

1994–1997

Associate Professor, Bloomsburg University (tenured)

1991–1994

Assistant Professor, Bloomsburg University

1988-1991

Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania

1980–1987

Assistant Professor, University of Groningen (tenured)


PUBLICATIONS

Book-Length:

ed., Poetry of Charles d'Orléans: A Critical Edition of BnF MS fr. 25458. Charles d'Orléans's Personal Manuscript of His Poetry and That of His Court at Blois, ed. with John Fox, trans. R. Barton Palmer, with a contribution by Stephanie Gibbs Kamath. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies.) Tempe, Ariz.: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, forthcoming 2008. Awarded the seal from the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions.

The Poet's Notebook: The Manuscript of Charles d'Orleans's Lyric Poetry (Paris, BnF MS fr. 25458). (Texts and Transitions, 3.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2008.

ed. (with Linne Mooney), James I and Other Prison Poems, for TEAMS (the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages), Western Michigan University, 2005.

ed., Charles d'Orléans in England, 1415–1440 (Woodbridge, Suff., and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2000; 231 pp.). Collection of scholarly articles.

ed., Fortunes Stabilnes: Charles of Orléans's English Book of Love (Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1995; 624 pp.). Awarded the seal from the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions.

ed., Medieval Food and Drink, Acta 21 (Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1995). Proceedings of the Acta conference on Food and Drink in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, held at Binghamton, New York, in April of 1994.

ed., Historical & Editorial Studies in Medieval & Early Modern English for Johan Gerritsen, with Hanneke Wirtjes (Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1985). Collection of scholarly articles (for the table of contents, see http://karolus.net/public).

Selected articles:

"Manuscrit français, manuscrit anglais: De la ductilité du propos poétique," pp. 19–41, in Lectures de Charles d'Orléans: Les Ballades, ed. Denis Hüe. (Collection "Didact Français.") Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010

"A Need for Books: Charles d'Orléans and His Travelling Libraries in England and France," Journal of the Early Book Society, 12 (2009), 77–98.

"Charles d'Orleans," Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: University of Oxford, 2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com).

"Thomas Chaucer and William Paston Take Care of Business: Harvard Law School Deeds, 349," Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 24 (2002), 237–67.

"Two Manuscripts, One Mind: Charles d'Orléans and the Production of Manuscripts in Two Languages (Paris, BN MS fr. 25458 and London, BL MS Harley 682)," pp. 61–78, in Charles d'Orléans in England, 1415–1440 (see above).

"A 'Lost' Poem by Charles de Nevers Recorded by Charles d'Orléans," Notes and Queries, 244, n.s. 46 (1999), 185–86.

"On Punctuating Medieval Literary Texts," TEXT: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, 7 (1995), 161–74.

"Charles of Orleans: Translator?" in The Medieval Translator, ed. Roger Ellis and Ruth Evans, vol. 4 (University of Exeter Press, 1994), 125–35.

"Charles of Orleans and the Poems of BL MS, Harley 682," English Studies, 74 (1993), 222–35. [on the authorship of the English poetry]

"The Bute Manuscript of The Privity of the Passion (Yale University, Beinecke MS 660)," Manuscripta, 34 (1990), 177–89.

"The Emendation of Wine: Wine Recipes from Beinecke MS 163 ('The Wagstaff Miscellany')," The Yale University Library Gazette, 64 (1990), 109–23.

"A Little-Known Fragment of a Dutch Abraham-and-Sarah Play," Comparative Drama, 17 (1983–84), 318–26. Reprinted in Drama in the Middle Ages (ed., Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe 2nd ser., AMS Press, 1991, a collection of the best articles of the 1980s to appear in Comparative Drama..

"Poetic Form as a Mirror of Meaning in the English Poems of Charles of Orleans," Philological Quarterly, 69 (1990), 13–29.

"Fortunes Stabilnes: The English Poems of Charles of Orleans in their English Context," Fifteenth-Century Studies, 7 (1983), 1–18.

"The Triumph of Grace in Dobest," English Studies, 63 (1982), 506–16.

"Langland's Characterization of Will in the B-text," Dutch Quarterly Review, 11 (1981), 287–301.

"Three Ovidian Women in Chaucer's Troilus: Medea, Helen, Oenone," Chaucer Review, 15 (1980), 1–10.

 



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