Home > Faculty : Lianna Farber
Specialties
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Medieval literature and thought
Educational Background
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Ph.D. : English, Harvard University, 1998.
Publications
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Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing: Value, Consent, and Community. Farber, Lianna, Cornell University Press, Author, 2006. Link
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“Aquinas on Marriage.” Aquinas and the Post-Modern World. Farber, Lianna, University of Notre Dame Press, Author, in press.
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“The Creation of Consent in Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale.”: Farber, Lianna, The Chaucer Review, 39.2 , 2004.
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he Ambivalences of Medieval Religious Drama by Rainer Warning: Farber, Lianna, 2002.
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Roosters, Wolves and the Limits of Allegory: Farber, Lianna, Essays in Medieval Studies, 17 81-94, 2001.
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The Language of Trade: An Idea and Its Uses in Late Medieval Britain. Farber, Lianna, book manuscript, none.
Professional Activities
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Department of English Graduate Placement Advisor: 2000 - 2001
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Department of English Undergraduate Scholarships Committee: 2002
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Program Committee, Medieval Academy of America: 2003
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Executive Committee, Center for Medieval Studies: 2000 - present
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Undergraduate Policy Committee, Department of English, Northwestern University: 1998 - 2000
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Department of English Undergraduate Studies Committee: 2001 - present
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Department of English Faculty Affairs Committee: 2000 - 2001
Awards
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Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, ACLS, 2008
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Graduate School Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2001
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McKnight Summer Fellowship, 2001
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Andrew Mellon Dissertation Writing Fellowship, 1996
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Mellon Summer Writing Fellowship, English Department, Harvard, 1995
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Prize Studentship, Centre for History and Economics, King's College, University of Cambridge, 1993 - 1994
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Samuel Colehour Scholarship, Harvard, 1992 - 1993
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Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1991 - 1996
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Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1991 - 1995
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English Prize Fellowship, Harvard, 1991 - 1993
Courses Taught
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EngL 8110 - The Canterbury Tales and Questions of Genre
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Law and Literature
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EngL 3110 - Introduction to Middle English Literature
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EngL 5100 - Intensive Survey of Middle English Literature
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EngL 3110 - Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
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EngL 3960 - Junior-Senior Seminar: Allegory
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EngL 3001W - Textual Interpretation, Analysis, and Investigation
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British Literature to 1800
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Literary Theory from Plato to Modernism
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Lyric Poetry
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