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Professor Coleman's
interest in the importance of performance and audience reception for
our understanding of medieval literature was fired by the unexpected
convergence of a B.A. in Medieval Studies (Barnard College) and an M.A.
in Anthropology/Folkore (University of Texas at Austin). She pursued
this interest via a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, published
in 1996 as Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval
England and France (Cambridge University Press, 1996; paperback
edition, 2005). In Spring 2006 she and her graduate class on "Medieval
Authorship" took the idea to a new level, by creating a short film
based on a scene of public reading in Chaucer's Troilus and
Criseyde.
Professor Coleman has
published articles on orality-literacy theory and on medieval literary
reception, performance, and patronage in anthologies and in journals
such as Speculum, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Philological
Quarterly, Cahiers de Littérature Orale, and The
British Library Journal. Her next major project is a survey of
medieval "book-iconography," i.e., of manuscript illuminations that
depict the writing, presenting, and reading of books. After that she is
planning a book on the aural diction of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte
Darthur.
Professor Coleman
teaches classes on Anglo-Saxon to late medieval literature as well as
on modern uses of medieval material, such as "medieval films" and the
works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Click here for Professor Coleman's curriculum
vita.
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