FULL-TIME FACULTY PROFILE: DR. JENNIFER GARRISON

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Dr. Jennifer Garrison Assistant Professor, English Phone: (403) 254-3758 Jennifer.Garrison (at) stmu.ca Office: A210 PhD English, Rutgers University MA English, Rutgers University BA English (Honours), University of Alberta Specialization/research interests: middle English literature and culture; old English language and literature; Chaucer; renaissance literature; Shakespeare Faculty Profile: English Professor Finds Passion for Medieval Literature

recent and current scholarly activity

“Liturgy and Loss: Pearl and the Ritual Reform of the Aristocratic Subject,”Chaucer Review, Issue 44.3 (2010).

“Failed Signification: Corpus Christi and Corpus Mysticum in Piers Plowman,” Yearbook of Langland Studies, Volume 23 (2009).

Conference Presentations
"Allegory and Affect." 5th International Piers Plowman Society Conference at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, April 14-17, 2011

“Masculinity’s Self-Destruction: Philomela in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde.” 44th International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2009.

“Liturgy and Loss: The Eucharist and the Ritual Transformation of the Self in Pearl.” 43rd International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2008.

“Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne and the Visual Nature of Lay Devotion.” 42nd International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2007.

“Theology and Identification: Exempla in Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne.” Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium, NYC Inter-University Doctoral Consortium, Stony Brook Manhattan, New York, NY, April 2007.

“National and Bodily Unity in Ælfric’s Life of St. Edmund.” 41st International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2006.

“Challenging Restraint in the Old English Judith.” Anglo-Saxon Futures: The First International Workshop of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium, King’s College London, March 2006.