Rebecca Krug
Associate Professor
Ph.D. English, Indiana University, 1996
110E Lind Hall
(612)626-7127
krugx001@umn.edu
Rebecca Krug specializes in late medieval English literature and culture. Her current research is concerned with ideas about 'self-help' and emotional experience in the 14th and 15th centuries. Graduate students she has supervised have written dissertations about medieval gossip; sanctity and imitation; alliterative poetry and Troy; and women's speech and the law. Krug was awarded the Red Motley Teaching Award at Minnesota (2007) and the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching at Harvard University (1998). She founded the Medievalists' Writing Workshop, a national research collaborative that meets annually, in 2002. Krug trained as a medievalist at Indiana University and was an assistant professor at Harvard before coming to Minnesota.
Department Affiliations
English; Medieval Studies
Areas of Expertise
Late Medieval literature; religion; culture; literacy; nature; women's studies
Selected Publications
Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Margery Kempe and the Practice of Feeling, in progress.
Medieval Self-Help: Healing, Writing, and Reading in the Middle Ages, in progress.
"Planting in the Middle Ages." The Cultural History of Gardens. Ed. John Dixon Hunt and Michael Leslie, in progress.
"Shakespeare's Medieval Morality: The Merchant of Venice and The Gesta Romanoru." Shakespeare and the Middle Ages. Ed. C. Perry and J. Watkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, under consideration.
"Natural Feeling and Unnatural Mothers: Margery Kempe, St. Bridget, and the Clerk's Tale." Laments for the Lost: Medieval Mourning and Elegy. Ed. J. Tolmie. Brussels: Brepols Publishers, under consideration.
"Margery Kempe." Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature. Ed. L. Scanlon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2007.
"Women and Sanctity." Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture. Ed. A. Galloway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2008.
"The Gawain-Poet." International Encylopaedia for the Middle Ages (supplement to Lexikon des Mittelalaters). Ed. P. Geary. Brussels: Brepols Publishers, 2006.
"The Fifteen Oes." Cultures of Piety. Ed. Anne Clark Bartlett and Thomas Bestul. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. (Transcription, translation, and introductory essay.)Graduate Courses
Chaucer
Medieval Dream Visions
Medieval Literature and Religion
Mystics and Visionaries
Visionary Women: Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich
Women in the Middle Ages
Undergraduate Courses
Angels in Literature and Film
British Survey I
Chaucer
Dream Visions
Introduction to Shakespeare
King Arthur; Medieval and Modern Pairs
Medieval and Renaissance Drama
Survey of Medieval Literature; Textual Analysis