Myra Seaman, Associate Professor
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| - Middle English literature - Medieval cultures - Manuscript study - Cultural Studies - History of English - Arthuriana |
Office: 22A Glebe St. #102 (843) 953-5760 seamanm {at} cofc.edu |
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Profile Dr. Seaman received her Ph.D. in English, with an emphasis on medieval literature, from Claremont Graduate University in 1998. She then taught at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, before joining CofC’s English department in 2000. She teaches courses in English literature of the later Middle Ages (1200-1500) and History of the English Language. Her scholarly work focuses on anonymous Middle English narrative, with her current project a book on late Middle English romance and the household manuscripts in which they frequently appear; she also investigates humanisms and humanities, medieval and modern. |
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Recent Publications and Presentations Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages. Co-edited with Eileen A. Joy, Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey. NY: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007. “Becoming More (than) Human: Affective Posthumanisms, Past and Future,” Journal of Narrative Theory 37.2 (Summer 2007): 246-75. “The Sacrifice of Fiction in The Quest for [the Real] King Arthur.” Co-authored with former C of C undergraduate John Green. In Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages, eds. Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Ramsey. NY: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007. 135-54. “Teaching Chaucer’s Dream Visions: Introducing Students to The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, and The Parliament of Fowls,” in Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems, eds. Angela Jane Weisl and Tison Pugh. New York: MLA, 2007. 97-100. “Post-Incarnated and Divine Machine Bodies,” Southeastern Medieval Association, Daytona Beach, FL, October 2005. (online at http://www.siue.edu/babel/SEMA05EssaySeaman.htm) “The Waning of Middle English Chivalric Romance in The Squyr of Lowe Degre,” Fifteenth-Century Studies 29 (2004): 174-199. “Engendering Genre in Middle English Romance: The Performance of the Feminine in Sir Beues of Hamtoun,” Studies in Philology 98 (2001): 49-75. |
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