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Rebecca Krug

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English 110E LindH

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Narrative

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.


Specialties

  • Late Medieval literature
  • religion
  • culture
  • literacy
  • nature
  • women's studies

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: English, Indiana University, 1996.

Publications

  • Medieval Self-Help: Healing, Writing, and Reading in the Middle Ages. Krug, Rebecca L, Author, forthcoming.
  • "Planting in the Middle Ages." The Cultural History of Gardens.. Krug, Rebecca L, Author, forthcoming.
  • Margery Kempe and the Practice of Feeling. Krug, Rebecca L, Author, forthcoming.
  • "Women and Sanctity." Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture. Ed. A. Galloway. . Krug, Rebecca L, Cambridge University Press, Author, forthcoming.
  • "Margery Kempe." Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature.. Krug, Rebecca L, Cambridge University Press, Author, forthcoming.
  • "The Gawain-Poet.": Krug, Rebecca L, Brepols Publishers, International Encylopaedia for the Middle Ages (supplement to Lexikon des Mittelalaters)., 2006.
  • Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England. Krug, Rebecca L, Cornell University Press, Author, 2002. Link
  • "The Fifteen Oes." Cultures of Piety.: Krug, Rebecca L, Cornell University Press, 1999.
  • "Natural Feeling and Unnatural Mothers: Margery Kempe, St. Bridget, and the Clerk's Tale." Laments for the Lost: Medieval Mourning and Elegy.. Krug, Rebecca L, Brepols Publishers, Author, under consideration.
  • "Shakespeare's Medieval Morality: The Merchant of Venice and The Gesta Romanoru." Shakespeare and the Middle Ages.. Krug, Rebecca L, Oxford University Press, Author, under consideration.

Courses Taught

  • Chaucer
  • Medieval Dream Visions
  • Medieval Literature and Religion
  • Mystics and Visionaries
  • Visionary Women: Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich
  • Women in the Middle Ages
  • Angels in Literature and Film
  • British Survey I
  • Dream Visions
  • Introduction to Shakespeare
  • King Arthur; Medieval and Modern Pairs
  • Medieval and Renaissance Drama
  • Survey of Medieval Literature; Textual Analysis
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