Kate Greenspan
Associate Professor
B.A., Skidmore College
M.A. and Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Graduate work: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany (Medieval Studies)
Office: Palamountain 324
Phone: (518) 580-5167
Email: kgreensp@skidmore.edu
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Chaucer
- Medieval Drama
- History of the English Language and Imagination
- Manuscript Studies
- Orality, Aurality and Literacy in the Middle Ages
Courses Taught:
- SSP 100: The Nature of Comedy
- SSP 100: The Debate About Women in the Middle Ages
- EN 105: The Beast Within: Animals and Humans in the Middle Ages
- EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
- EN 229: Introduction to Medieval Literature
- EN 229: History of the English Language and Imagination
- EN 229: The Medieval Lyric
- EN 341: Medieval Drama
- EN 341: Medieval Romance
- EN 342: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
- EN 342: Chaucer and the Classical World
Selected Publications:
- "Englishing the Saints in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne," in Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain, ed. E. von Contzen and A. Bernau (Manchester: Manchester UP), 2014.
- "Autohagiography," in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. M. Schaus, Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Vol. 12, (New York: Routledge),
2006.
- "Lessens for the Priest, Lessons for the People: Robert Mannyng of Brunne's Audiences for Handlyng Synne." West Virginia University Press, February 2005, pp. 209-221. Electronic form: Project MUSE, John Hopkins University Press.
- "Heresy, Martyrdom and the Miraculous in the Legend of St. Eulalie," in Miracles and the Miraculous in Medieval Germanic and Latin Literature--Germania Latina V, ed. K.E. Olsen, A. Harbus and T. Hofstra, Medievalia Groningeniana New Series 6 (Leuven: Peeters), 2004.
- So Rich a Tapestry: Essays in the Sister Arts and Cultural Studies, ed. Ann Hurley and Kate Greenspan (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP), 1995.
