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Simone Martini
Museo Horne, Florence.
Copyright Editrice Giusti de Becocci S.R.L., Italy.

Sister Julia Bolton Holloway, H.F., C.F.D., Ph.D.

Vita

Professor Emerita, Medieval Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
Editor, The Julian of Norwich Project; Facilitator, Oliveleaf Project
Hermit of the Holy Family; Votary, Comunita` dei figli di Dio

Websites: http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/ukraine/324/julian.html On Julian of Norwich: Texts and Contexts;
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/ukraine/324/anglo.html On Anglo-Italian Studies in Florence; http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/Ukraine/324/cfd.html On the Comunità dei figli di Dio in Florence
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/Ukraine/324/oliveleaf.html On the Oliveleaf Project

Birthplace: London, England; Birthdate: 14 April, 1937
Citizenship: British Subject, 1937-; United States, 1967-1992; European Citizen, 1992-
Children: Richard, Colin, Jonathan
Grandchildren: Akita, Caroline, Jasmine, Robin, Aurora, Rowan, Ashalena

Address: via del Partigiano 16, Montebeni, 50014 FIESOLE, ITALY
Telephone: 0039 55 697455 e-mail: juliana@tin.it

Interests: Textual Editing, Julian of Norwich, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, The Gawain/Pearl Poet, Medieval Manuscripts, Paleography, Illuminations, Theology, Hebrew Scriptures, Greek Testament, Monasticism, Ecumenicism, Quakerism, Godfriends, Contemplation, Work, Study, Prayer, Women's Communities, Women Writing, Pilgrimage, Jerusalem, Italy, Books, Libraries, Publishing, Oxford Movement, Ireland, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Birgitta of Sweden, Umilta` of Florence, Friends of God Movement, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Women of the Risorgimento, Carpentry, Bookbinding, Librarianship, Libraries, Painting, Embroidery, Textiles, Restoration, Website Designing, Trauma Healing.

Degrees
GCE 1953 St Mary's School, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex, England
BA 1957 San Jose State University, California: English, French; Great Distinction, Honors, English
MA 1967 University of California, Berkeley: English
PhD 1974 University of California, Berkeley: English (Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies)

Dissertation: 'The Figure of the Pilgrim in Medieval Poetry.' Director: Professor Phillip W. Damon, English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, l974. Published as The Pilgrim and the Book: A Study of Dante, Langland and Chaucer, 1987, 1989, 1993.

Publications:
Books (12)

Brunetto Latini. Il Tesoretto. Edition, Translation, Preface. New York: Garland, 1981. Garland Library of Medieval Literature, 2. Ed. James J. Wilhelm. xliii + 164 pp. Reviewed: Italica; Italianistica: Rivista di letteratura italiana; Speculum. Out of print.
Brunetto Latini: An Analytic Bibliography. London: Grant and Cutler, 1986. Research Bibliographies and Checklists. Ed. Alan Deyermond. 153 pp. Reviewed: Italian Studies; Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie; Les Lettres Romanes; Romanische Forschungen.
The Pilgrim and the Book: A Study of Dante, Langland and Chaucer. Berne, New York: Peter Lang, 1987. Second edition, 1989. xix + 321 pp. Third, revised, edition, 1993. xxii + 303 pp. Reviewed: Studies in the Age of Chaucer; Annali d'Italianistica; Speculum; Journal of Medieval Studies; Medium Aevum.
Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages. Edited, Julia Bolton Holloway, Constance S. Wright and Joan Bechtold. Berne, New York: Peter Lang, 1990. xiii + 336 pp. Reviewed: Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Cited: Hans Küng, Christianity, pp. 439-445, 870.
Birger Gregersson and Thomas Gascoigne. The Life of Saint Birgitta of Sweden. Translated from Middle English by Julia Bolton Holloway. Toronto: Peregrina Publishing, 1991. 64 pp.
Saint Bride and Her Book: Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations Translated from Latin and Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretative Essay. Focus Library of Medieval Women. Series Editor, Jane Chance. Newburyport: Focus Books, 1992. xv + 164 pp. Republished: Boydell and Brewer.
Eileen M. Bolton. Lichens for Vegetable Dyeing. Edited, Julia Bolton Holloway and Karen Leigh Casselman. McMinnville: Robin and Russ, 1992. 43 pp.
Twice-Told Tales: Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri. New York: Peter Lang, 1993. xiv + 552 pp. Reviewed: Speculum.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Aurora Leigh and Other Poems. Edited, John Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton Holloway. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995. xx + 517 pp.
The Julian Library Portfolio. Florence: Julian Library Project, 1996-.
Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature. New York: AMS Press, 1998. [xii] + 278 pp.

In Press: Tales within Tales: Apuleius through Time. Edited, Constance S. Wright and Julia Bolton Holloway. New York: AMS Press.

In Press: Saint Bride and Her Book: Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations. Translated from Latin and Middle English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretative Essay. Library of Medieval Women. Series Editor, Jane Chance. Boydell and Brewer, 1999.

In Press: Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love. Ed. Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P. and Julia Bolton Holloway. Florence, 1999. 2 volumes.

[For verification of most titles, check 'Holloway, Julia Bolton' in British Library Catalogue on line: http://opac97.bl.uk ]

Articles, Chapters, Booklets (66)

'I, John Maundeville Knight.' Tournaments Illuminated, 9 (1975), 25-35.
'Aurora Leigh and Jane Eyre.' Brontë Society Transactions, 17 (1977), 126-132.
'Dante's Commedia: Egyptian Spoils, Roman Jubilee, Florence's Patron.' Studies in Medieval Culture, 12 (1978), 97-104.
'Haworth and The Waste Land.' Yeats Eliot Review, 6 (1979), 22-23.
'Boyhood and Bodleian.' Oxford, 30 (1978), 38-46.
'Medieval Pilgrimage.' Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Ed. Joseph Gibaldi. New York: Modern Language Association, 1980. Pp. 143-148.
'Medieval Liturgical Drama, the Commedia, Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales. American Benedictine Review, 32 (1981), 114-121.
'Semus Sumus: Joyce and Pilgrimage.' Thought, 56 (1981), 212-225. Republished in Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature, 1998, pp. 217-242.
'The Asse to the Harpe: Boethian Music in Chaucer.' Boethius and the Liberal Arts. Ed. Michael Masi. Berne: Peter Lang, 1981. Pp. 175-186. To be republished in Tales within Tales: Apuleius through Time, ed. Constance S. Wright, Julia Bolton Holloway, New York: AMS.
'Not Babilon, nor great Alcairo.' Milton Quarterly, 15 (1981), 92-94.
'Monks and Plays.' Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART/RALPH) 10 (1983), 10-12.
'Death and the Emperor in Dante, Browning, Dickinson and Stevens.' Studies in Medievalism, 2:3 (1983), 67-72.
'Feminist Gandhi.' Gandhi in the Postmodern Age: Issues in War and Peace. Ed. Sanford Krolick, Betty Cannon. Golden: Colorado School of Mines Press, 1984. Pp. 61-64.
'The 'Dream of the Rood' and Liturgical Drama.' Comparative Drama, 18 (1984), 19-37. Republished in Drama in the Middle Ages, Second Series, ed. Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe, New York: AMS, 1992, pp. 24-42. Republished in Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature, 1998, pp. 47-66.
'Strawberries and Mulberries: Ulysses and Othello.' Hypatia: Essays in Classics, Comparative Literature, and Philosophy Presented to Hazel E. Barnes on her Seventieth Birthday. Ed. William M. Calder III, Ulrich K. Goldsmith and Phyllis B. Kenevan. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 1985. Pp. 123-136.
'Alfonso el Sabio, Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri.' Thought, 60 (1985), 468-483.
'Introduction to Medieval Culture.' Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Ed. Miriam Y. Miller, Jane Chance. New York: Modern Language Association, 1986. Pp. 161-170. Reviewed: Envoi, etc.
'Brunetto Latini and England.' Manuscripta, 31 (1987), 11-21.
'Verbal Icons: Paradigms of Death and Birth.' Studies in Iconography, 11 (1987), 95-110.
'The Poet in the Poem.' Allegoresis. Ed. Stephen J. Russell. New York: Garland, 1987. Pp. 109-132. Reviewed: TLS; Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Republished in Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature, 1998, pp. 121-141.
'Chancery and Comedy: Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri.' Lectura Dantis, 3 (1988) 73-94.
'The Vita Nuova: Paradigms of Pilgrimage.' Dante Studies, 103 (1985/1989), 103-124. Republished, Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature, 1998, pp. 101-120.
'The Road through Roncesvalles: Alfonsine Formation of Brunetto Latini and Dante: Diplomacy and Literature.' In Emperor of Learning: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and His Thirteenth-Century Renaissance. Ed. Robert I. Burns. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990. Pp. 109-123, 239-247.
'Crosses and Boxes: Latin and Vernacular.' In Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages, 1990. Pp. 58-87.
'Convents, Courts and Colleges: Chaucer's Prioress and Second Nun.' In Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages, 1990. Pp. 198-219.
'A Bridgettine Document from the Florentine Paradiso written at Vadstena, 1397, and its Context: Un documento brigidino del monastero 'Paradiso' di Firenze scritto in Vadstena nel 1397 ed il suo contesto.' In Santa Brigida profeta dei tempi nuovi: Saint Bridget prophetess of new ages. Rome: Casa Generalizia Suore Santa Brigida, 1991. Pp. 860-900. Prefaced: John Paul II.
'Bride, Margery, Julian and Alice: Bridget of Sweden's Textual Community in Medieval England.' Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Ed. Sandra McEntire. New York: Garland, 1992. Pp. 203-222. Republished in Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature, 1998, pp. 142-172.
'The Monastic Context of Hildegard's Ordo Virtutum.' The 'Ordo Virtutum' of Hildegard of Bingen. Ed. Audrey Davidson. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992. Pp. 63-77.
'Slaves and Princes: Terence through Time.' The Influence of the Classical World on Medieval Literature, Architecture, Music and Culture. Ed. Fidel Fajardo. Edwin Mellen Press, 1992.
'Julian of Norwich's Showings: Chronicles of a Mystic'. The Tablet, 11 May, 1996. Pp. 610-611.
'Saint Birgitta of Sweden and Brigittine Music'. Women Composers: Music Through the Ages. Ed. Martha Furman Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman. New York: G.K. Hall/ Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1996. I. 78-83.
'Saint Birgitta of Sweden, Saint Catherine of Siena: Saints, Secretaries, Scribes, Supporters'. Birgittiana, 1 (1996), 29-45. Prefaced: John Paul II.
'Julian of Norwich's Showings in a Nutshell: Her Manuscripts and their Cultural Contexts', Birgittiana 4 (1997/98), 129-151.

Julian Library Portfolio: 'Preface and Sampler'; 'Sacrament and Gospel'; ''Contemplating on Hebrew'; 'Julian's Mystic Philosophy: Augustine, Boethius, Dionysius, Gregory, Benedict, Dante'; 'Helena, Egeria, and Paula: The Bible and Women Pilgrims'; 'Hilda and Caedmon: The Dream of the Rood'; 'The Most Ancient of St Gregory the Great by a Monk or Nun of Whitby'; 'La Beata Umiltà: Contemplating on Holy Humility'; 'Godfriends: The Continental Medieval Mystics'; 'The Mystics' Internet: Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, Margery of Lynn, Francesca of Rome'; 'Henry Suso: Horologium Sapientiae 'Computer of Wisdom''; 'Jan van Ruusbroec, The Sparkling Stone'; 'Julian of Norwich: The Westminster Cathedral/Abbey Manuscript'; 'Anchoress and Cardinal: Textual Communities and Gendered Audiences'; The Soul a City: Margery and Julian'; 'A Julian-Related Manuscript in Norwich Castle'; Julian's Showings in a Nutshell: Her Manuscripts and Their Cultural Contexts'; John of the Cross: If You Would be Perfect'; 'Margaret Gascoigne/Bridget More; Contemplating on Julian'; 'Colections: An English Nun in Exile'; 'Mother Agnes Mason, C.H.F., Foundress, Community of the Holy Family'; 'Sacred Conversation: Contemplative Art'; 'Royal Priesthood: Theory into Practise'; 'The Lord's Prayer: Our Father: Julian of Norwich, Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, Edith Stein'; 'Heavenwindow: Prayers for Contemplation'; 'David and Solomon: Sexual Abuse and the Clergy'; 'Aleph/Alpha: Alcoholics Anonymous, the Deaf, and Julian'; 'Cruelty and Mercy: Medieval Models for Modern Times'; 'The Sabbath a Bride: Christianity and Sexuality'; 'Tangled Tales', etc. Many titles available in hard copy, in Florentine bound portfolios, juliana@tin.it

In Jerusalem: Essays on Pilgrimage and Literature, 1998: 'Golden Apples, Wild Geese'; 'Travelers' Supreme Fictions: Homer and Plato'; 'Helena, Paula, Eustochium, Egeria'; 'Apocalpyse Palimpsest: The Song of Roland'; 'The Wife and the Pardoner'; 'Pilgrim Perceptions: Literature's Labyrinths'; 'To Be A Pilgrim'.

See also Otfried Lieberknecht's Websites on Dante Studies: http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome/html and http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/lit/Italian/Danindex.html

In Press: New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press: Entries for Dame Gertrude More, O.S.B., Mother Agnes Mason, C.H.F.

Reviews, Notices, Notes (34)

C.P. Snow. The New Men. Peninsula Living (March 26, 1961), 30-31.
Elizabeth Drew. T.S. Eliot: The Design of his Poetry. Peninsula Living (April 16, 1961), 28.
Jonathan Sumption. Pilgrimage: Image of Medieval Religion. Journal of the American Academy of Religion (henceforth JAAR), 44 (1976), 570.
Christian Zacher. Curiosity and Pilgrimage. JAAR, 44 (1976), 730.
Julian Jaynes. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. JAAR, 45 (1977), 398.
Donald Howard. The Idea of the Canterbury Tales. JAAR, 45 (1977), 541.
'Fleury Easter Liturgical Plays.' Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama (henceforth RORD), 21 (1978), 95-96.
Richard Kay. Dante's Swift and Strong. JAAR, 46 (1978), 611.
Kenelm Foster. The Two Dantes. JAAR, 46 (1978), 612.
James McGowan. Thomas Garrett. JAAR, 47 (1978), 153.
'Filius Getronis.' RORD, 23 (1979), 139.
Charles Jones. St Nicholas of Myra, Bari and Manhattan. JAAR, 47 (1979), 808.
John Adair. The Pilgrim's Way. JAAR, 47 (1979), 449.
'Haworth and The Waste Land.' Yeats Eliot Review, 6 (1979/1980), 22-23.
'Resuscitatio Lazari.' RORD, 23 (1980), 87.
Giuseppe Mazzotta. Dante, Poet of the Desert. JAAR, 50 (1982), 331.
'Chaucer's Daughters. Christine de Pizan. The Book of the City of Ladies. Linda Simon. Of Virtue Rare: Margaret Beaufort, Matriarch of the House of Tudor.' Bloomsbury Review, 3 (1983), 7.
James J. Wilhelm. Il Miglior Fabbro: The Cult of the Difficult in Daniel, Dante and Pound. Studies in Medievalism, 2:3 (1983), 97-101.
Rosemary B. Reuther, Rosemary S. Keller. Women and Religion in America, the Colonial and Revolutionary Period: A Documentary History. Friends Journal (May, 1984), 23.
Michael Green, James J. O'Connell. De Historia et Veritate Unicornis: On the History and Truth of the Unicorn. Bloomsbury Review, 4 (June/July, 1984), 7, 30.
Christian Feminism: Visions of a New Humanities. Ed. Judith Weidman. Friends Journal (Dec., 1984), 26.
James A. Freeman, Anthony Low. Urbane Milton: The Latin Poetry. Milton Studies, 19. Classical and Modern Literature, 6 (1985), 61-65.
Matthew Fox. Hildegard of Bingen. Bloomsbury Review, 6 (Nov., 1985), 7.
Medieval Women's Visionary Literature and Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias. Religion and Literature, 19 (Spring, 1987), 78-82, 95.
Marcelle Thiebaux. Writings of Medieval Women. Annali d'Italianistica, 7 (1989), 444-446.
Denis Meehan. Gregory Nazianzus: Three Poems. Envoi 2:1 (1990), 188-192.
Birgitta of Sweden: Life and Selected Writings, ed. Marguerite Tjader Harris, Albert Ryle Kezel, Tore Nyberg. EDAM, 15 (1992), 29-32.
Betsy Bowden. 18th Century Modernizations of The Canterbury Tales. Scriblerian, 1993.
'Annunciation and Brigittine Nuns at Choir'. The Bernard H. Breslauer Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Ed. William M. Voekle and Roger S. Wieck. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993. Pp. 49, 196-7.
Marion Glasscoe. English Medieval Mystics: Games of Faith. Medium Aevum, 1994.
Stefano Asperti, Carlo I d'Angiò e i trovatori: Componenti 'provenzali' e angioine nella tradizione manoscritta della lirica trobadorica. Speculum, 1997.
Lynn Staley. Margery Kempe and the Dissenting Fictions. Mystic-L Book Reviews, 1997.
The Cloud of Unknowing. Ed. Patrick J. Gallacher. Arthuriana, 1997.

Also see http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/ukraine/324/index.html: numerous reviews to be found on its Juliansite, Oliveleaf Site, Anglo-Italian Studies Site

Radio, Television Programs (13)

Dublin, 1973. On James Joyce. With Leslie Fiedler. Dublin, Irish Radio.
Quincy, 1973. On Book of Kells. Quincy, Television.
Quincy, 1974. Second Shepherds' Play. In Middle English. Quincy College Radio.
Boulder, 1982. Reading James Joyce. With Edward Nolan. KGNU Radio.
Boulder, 2/27/83. On Gandhi. KGNU. Won Art of Peace Prize.
Boulder, 4/19/84. 'Alfonso el Sabio: 700 Years After.' KGNU.
Boulder, 12/25/84. 'Shepherds and Kings.' With Edward Nolan. KGNU.
Boulder, 1985. 'The Dream of the Rood.' Magistra Ludi. KGNU.
Boulder, 1985. 'Terence through Time: An Afro-Roman Playwright.' KGNU.
Boulder, 1985. 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.' Magistra Ludi. KGNU.
Boulder, 1989. 'Tales within Tales: Apuleius and Chaucer.' KGNU.
Boulder, 1990. 'Mandalas.' With Elizabeth Plamondon, Davÿiad Carrÿaasco. KGNU.
Boulder, 1991. 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.' KGNU.

Program Notes, Theatre Productions (7)

Officium Peregrinorum. Easter Monday, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1991.
Visitatio Sepulchri. Easter, 1977.
Filius Getronis. Eve of St Nicholas, 1978.
Resuscitatio Lazari. Lent, 1979, St Benedict's Eve, 1980.
From twelfth-century manuscript, Orléans 201, Fleury Playbook, performed in Latin Gregorian chant with assistance of Father Gerard Farrell, O.S.B.

Websites:

http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/ukraine/324/julian.html

Simone Martini
Museo Horne, Florence
© Editrice Giusti de Becocci S.R.L., Italy.

On Julian of Norwich's Showings and their Contexts.

http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/ukraine/324/anglo.html

The Anglo-Italian Studies Website, Florence, with the Brownings' Casa Guidi, Eton College.

http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/ukraine/324/cfd.html

The Comunità dei figli di Dio of don Divo Barsotti, C.F.D., Website.

http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/ukraine/324/oliveleaf.html

The Oliveleaf Website.

Discussion Lists (apply to juliana@tin.it):

Godfriends

Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love

oliveleaf

Conferences Organized (8)

1984 Alfonso el Sabio: 700 Years After. Spanish Government; Graduate Committee on Arts and Humanities; Graduate Committee, Medieval Studies
1985 Terence through Time: An Afro-Roman Playwright's Influence on Western Culture. Colorado Endowment for the Humanities; Graduate Committee on Arts and Humanities; Graduate Committee, Medieval Studies; Black Studies Program
1989 Apuleius and Chaucer: Tales within Tales. Colorado Endowment for the Humanities (CEH); Graduate Committee on Medieval Studies, etc.
1990 On Giants' Shoulders: Medieval Classicism. Comparative Literature, Classics, Medieval Studies; Distaves and Inkwells: Women in the Middle Ages. Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies; Opening up the Canon. Center on Theory in the Humanities, Comparative Literature, English, Humanities.
1992 On Giants' Shoulders: Medieval Classicism II. Humanities, Classics, Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies.

2000 projected: 'La Citta` e il Libro: Florence and the Book' Florence, Italy, International Congress and Website for Italians Abroad, in Italian and English.

Conferences, Seminars, Lectures, Exhibitions

1966-71 Seminars: Leon Katz, Brendan O Hehir, Jonas Barrish, Phillip Damon, Sir Richard Southern, Etienne Gilson. Advisor: Charles Jones, Charles Muscatine.
1973 International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, Leslie Fiedler's Panel; National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar, 'Allegory and Iconography,' Directed, John Fleming, Princeton University.
1975 International James Joyce Symposium, Paris, France.
1976 Medieval Studies Conference, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 'The Wife of Bath and Jacob's Well'; Medieval Studies Conference, Western Michigan University, 'Semus Sumus: Joyce and Pilgrimage.'
1977 Medieval Studies Conference, Western Michigan, 'Dante's Commedia: Egyptian Spoils, Roman Jubilee, Florence's Patron'; Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Villanova University, 'Egyptian Gold: Pilgrimage Poetry in Dante, Langland and Chaucer.'
1978 Medieval Colloquium, University of the South, Sewanee, 'Dante's Commedia: Egyptian Spoils, Roman Jubilee, Florence's Patron.'
1979 Seminar Participant, 'Medieval Paleography and Codicology,' Directed Jean Preston, Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Princeton University; University of the South, Sewanee, 'Chaucer's Wife and Pardoner: False-Seeming Pilgrims'; University of Pennsylvania Medieval Colloquium, 'The Poet as Pilgrim'; International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan, 'Carnal Allegories: Typology in Medieval Pilgrimage'; International James Joyce Symposium, Zurich, 'Images of Creator and Creation in Augustine, Dante and Joyce'; Participant, English Institute, Harvard University; Modern Language Association National Convention, San Francisco, 'Aurora Leigh's Renaissance.'
1980 Reed College, 'Sacred and Profane: Pilgrimage in Dante and Chaucer'; International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan, 'Arculf's Shipwreck, the Ruthwell Cross and The Dream of the Rood; University of Chicago Summer Latin Workshop, 'The Dream of the Rood: Latin and Vernacular Cultures'; Princeton, Women's Center, 'The Emerging/Submerged Woman.'
1981 St Anselm's College, Benedictine Sesquimillenium, 'Benedictine Drama and the Benedictine Rule'; University of Colorado, Boulder, 'Brunetto Latini: Maestro di Dante Alighieri'; International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan, 'Brunetto Latini: Maestro di Dante Alighieri'; The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange between East and West during the Period of the Crusades Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Attica Correctional Facility, Learning in Exile Conference, 'Boethius the Prisoner, Dante the Exile'; Modern Language Association National Convention, New York, 'The Case for Diplomatic Textual Editing: Brunetto Latini, Il Tesoretto.'
1982 University of Colorado, Boulder, 'Dante in Attica'; Medieval Academy, Western Michigan, 'Methods for Teaching Medieval Materials: Liturgical Drama'; International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan, 'A Chain of Letters: Men and Women of the Church'; Summer Greek and Latin Workshop, University of Chicago, 'Medieval Latin and Liturgical Drama,' Three Lectures; College of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder, Joycelebration, 'Saint James, King James'; South-Eastern Medieval Association Conference, Dallas, 'The Poet as Pilgrim,' Plenary Address.
1983 International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan, 'Alfonso el Sabio, Brunetto Latini, Dante Alighieri'; Colorado School of Mines, Gandhi and the Post-Modern World Conference, 'Gandhi and Feminism'; Boulder, International Women's Week, 'Textile and Text: Penelope and Ulysses.' 1984 University of Colorado, Boulder, Symposium on Medieval Romance Language Manuscripts, 'Alfonso el Sabio, Brunetto Latini, Dante Alighieri'; International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan, 'Alfonso el Sabio, Brunetto Latini, Dante Alighieri: Further Research'; 'Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Introduction to Medieval Culture'; First Drafts Conference, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 'Brunetto Latini Manuscripts in England'; International Chaucer Studies Congress, York University, England, 'Aspects of Pilgrimage in the Ellesmere Portraits'; also given, SMU at University College, Oxford; University of Colorado, Boulder, Scaliger Conference, 'Brunetto Latini and England'; Conference on 'Alfonso el Sabio: 700 Years After'; Exhibition of Medieval Manuscript Leaves at Boulder, Special Collections; Colloquia, 'Crosscurrents: Interdisciplinary Dialogues'; Panelist, Trojan Women, 'War, Peace and The Trojan Women,' Departments of Theatre, Classics, Conflict and Peace Studies, President's Fund in Humanities.
1985 University of Colorado, Boulder, Conference, Medieval Styles of Appropriation, 'Letters between Women and Men of the Church'; International Women's Week, 'Equally in God's Image'; Organizer, two sessions, 'Equally in God's Image,' International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan; Medieval Academy, 'Approaches to Teaching Chivalry: Introduction to Medieval Culture'; Chair, 'Medieval Travel Literature'; Organizer, Conference, 'Terence through Time: An Afro-Roman Playwright's Influence on Western Culture'; Rocky Mountain Medieval Association, Durango, 'Apocalypse Palimpsest'; University of Colorado, Boulder, J.D.A. Ogilvy Lecture, 'The Pilgrim in the Poem: Dante, Langland and Chaucer'; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 'Equally in God's Image.'
1986 American Association for Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Madrid, Spain, 'Chancery and Comedy: Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri'; Classics, Seminar, Plato, Symposium; Exhibition, 'The Medieval Manuscript,' University of Colorado, Boulder; Modern Language Association National Convention, New York, 'Dante's Risorgimento: Princess Belgioioso, Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.'
1987 Rice University, 'The Pilgrim in the Poem'; University of Texas, Dallas, 'Verbal Icons: Paradigms of Death and Birth'; Beloit College, 'Perverse Pilgrims: Chaucer's Wife and Pardoner'; AAUW Founders Fellowship/Sabbatical, Florence, Italy; Casa Guidi, Florence, 'Chancery and Comedy: Brunetto Latini and Dante Alighieri'; I Tatti Seminars.
1988 AAUW Founders Fellowship/Sabbatical, Florence, Italy; Florence, American International League, 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Casa Guidi'; I Tatti Seminars; AAUW, Washington, DC: The First Hundred Years, 'Report on Research'; AAUW, Boulder Branch, 'Report on Research.'
1989 Boulder, International Women's Week, 'Laurel Garland: Women of the Risorgimento'; Sewanee, Medieval Colloquium, 'A Republican Chancellor and Two Would-Be Emperors: Brunetto Latini, Alfonso el Sabio, Charles d'Anjou'; SUNY Buffalo, Psychology and the Arts, 'Midsummer Night's Dream: Bottom's Metamorphosis'; Special Collections, 'A Rose is a Rose'; Gunnison, AAUW Chapter, 'Report on Research'; Florence, I Tatti, Verrocchio Convegno.
1990 University of Virginia, Rotunda Lectura Dantis, Inferno XXV; International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan University, 'Brown Ink and Red Blood: Brunetto Latino and the Sicilian Vespers'; Poetry Reading, Shelley, Spender, with Sir Stephen Spender, Shelley Memorial, Oxford; Canterbury, International Chaucer Congress, 'Black Letter Chaucer'; CSERA, 'Opening Up the Canon'; Theatre and Dance, 'Terence through Time'; Religious Studies, 'Feminist Gandhi'; Medieval Studies, 'Saint Bride's Book.'
1991 Princeton, Medieval Academy; Southern Methodist University, 'Medieval Women and Medieval Books'; Western Michigan University, 'Hildegard of Bingen's Monastic Context'; Rome, Brigittine Congress, 'Paradiso 79 Document.'
1992 Boulder, On Giants' Shoulders, 'Terence through Time'; Boulder Art Center Exhibition, 'Wild Geese: A Family of Anglo-Irish Artists.'
1993 New York, Graduate Theological Seminary, 'Egeria and Paula: Pilgrims to the Holy Places'; Princeton, Princeton University, 'Julian's First Text, 1368, Short Text and Long Text, Post-1373'; Berkeley, University of California, 'Birgitta, Julian and Margery: Julian of Norwich's Textual Community in England'; St Hilda's College, Women and the Book in the Middle Ages, 'Helena, Egeria and Paula: The Bible and Women Pilgrims'.
1994 Buckfast Abbey, 'Birgitta of Sweden, Catherine of Siena: Saints' Secretariats'.
1996 Florence, British Institute, 'Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Risorgimento: Aurora Leigh and Other Poems'. Florence, British Institute, 'Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton'. Florence, English Church of St Mark, Bishop's Salone, 'Two Advent Talks on Julian of Norwich: Beginnings and Annunciation; Endings and Crucifixion'; 'Women and the Book', Syracuse University Program in Florence; 'Laurel Garland: Women of the Risorgimento', SACI, Florence.
1997 'Libraries I Have Known', British Institute, Florence.
1998 'Laurel Garland: Women of the Risorgimento', University of Michigan Program in Florence; 'Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton, O.S.B.', Graduate Theological Seminary, Berkeley; 'Editing Julian of Norwich's Extant Manuscripts', University of California, Berkeley; Workshop: 'Julian of Norwich in Contemplation'; 'Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton, O.S.B.', International Medieval Studies Congress, Western Michigan University; Retreat, 'Julian of Norwich and the Trinity: Might, Wisdom and Love', Lee Abbey, Devon; 'Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton, O.S.B.', Norwich Cathedral.

Books in Progress (5)

Anchoress and Cardinal: Julian of Norwich and Adam Easton, O.S.B.
Sweet New Style: Essays on Brunetto, Dante and Chaucer.
Latin with Laughter: Terence through Time.
Laurel Garland: Women of the Risorgimento.
Miriam and Aaron: The Bible and Women.

Languages (in descending order of competence): French, Italian, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German.

Employment

1996- Hermit of the Holy Family; 1999- Votary, Comunità dei figli di Dio; 1996- Editor, The Julian of Norwich Project (Website, Portfolio, Edition); Webmaster: Julian of Norwich, Showing of Love, Texts and Contexts Website; Anglo-Italian Studies Website; Comunità dei figli di Dio Website; Oliveleaf Website
1993-96 Acting Librarian, Holmhurst St Mary, Sussex, England
1992-95 Novice, Community of the Holy Family, Sussex, England
1992- Professor Emerita
1992 Professor, Medieval Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
1991 Visiting Assoc. Professor, English, Southern Methodist University
1988-92 Director, Medieval Studies Program, University of Colorado
1987-92 Associate Professor, University of Colorado
1987-88 Acting Curator, Casa Guidi, Florence, Browning Institute
1987 Visiting Asst. Professor, English, Southern Methodist University
1984-86 Chair, Committee on Medieval Studies, University of Colorado
1982 Coordinator, Humanities Program, University of Colorado
1982-87 Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature, University of Colorado
1981-87 Assistant Professor, Humanities, University of Colorado
1974-81 Assistant Professor, English, Princeton University
1974-76 Associate Master, Princeton Inn, Princeton University
1974-75 Director, Freshman Writing, Princeton University
1973-74 Coordinator, Humanities Program, Quincy College, Illinois
1971-74 Assistant Professor, English, Quincy College
1967-71 Teaching Assistant, Speech, English, University of California, Berkeley

University Committee Membership: Faculty Advisor, Black Student Organization, Quincy College, 1972-1973; Faculty Advisor, Princeton Hunger Action, 1974-1981; Board of Directors, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, 1981-1986; Curriculum Committee; Program Review Self Study; Chair, Graduate Committee on Medieval Studies; Member, Boulder Faculty Assembly; BFA Minority Affairs Committee; Liaison, Women's Committee; Task Force, Faculty Compensation; Faculty Advisor, IHEAR.

Professional, National, State, Community Membership: Princeton Monthly Meeting, Clerk, Peace Committee, 1975-1981; Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Peace Committee, 1975-1981, Clerk, Policy and Legislation Subcommittee, 1979-1981, Member, Quaker Delegation to Heads of State, 1980; Board Member, New Jersey College English Association, 1980-1981; Board Member, Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, 1983-1986; Chair, CEH Program Development Committee, 1985-1986; Board Member, Medieval Academy TEAMS Committee, 1984, Chair, Pedagogy of Paleography Project, TEAMS, 1984-1990; Vice Chair, Colorado Women's Agenda, 1987-89; Member, Medieval Academy of America (Life), Dante Society of America (Life), Early English Text Society, Bronte Society (Life), British Institute of Florence, Modern Language Association (Life), Friends of the Sir Harold Acton Library, British Institute of Florence.

Courses, Seminars, Programs: University of California, Berkeley; Quincy University, Illinois; Princeton University, New Jersey; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Chicago, Illinois; Southern Methodist University, Dallas:

Seminars, Precepts: Medieval Pilgrimage and Literature; Women in the Middle Ages; Dante and Joyce; Blake, Poetry, Prophecy and Iconography; Backgrounds, English Literature; Penelope/Ulysses; Richard II; Medieval Latin; Spenser; Terence through Time; Medieval Liturgical Drama.

Lecture Courses: Chaucer; Dante and Chaucer; Shakespeare; World of Middle Ages; Medieval Women; Medieval English Literature; Pilgrimage; Chivalry; Russian Literature; World Literature; Humanities; Freshman Composition.

Programs Directed: Initiated, Coordinated

Humanities Program, Quincy College, 1973-1974; Directed Freshman Composition, Princeton University, 1974-1975; Coordinated Humanities Program, University of Colorado, Fall, 1982; Chair, Graduate Committee on Medieval Studies, 1984-86; Director, Medieval Studies Program, 1988-92.

Honors, Awards, Grants

Grand Concours: Reines de France, England, 1953
Phelan Literary Awards, San Jose, California, 1955, 1956
General Scholarship Award, San Jose, 1956
Shakespeare Festival Scholarship, San Jose, 1957
Newhouse Foundation Grant, Berkeley, 1966
Teaching Assistantships, Speech, English, Berkeley, 1967-1971
Merit Teaching Award, Quincy, Illinois, 1973
NEH Summer Seminar, Princeton, New Jersey, 1973
Surdna Foundation Grant, Princeton, 1975
NEH Summer Stipend, Florence, Italy, 1983
Guggenheim Nomination, 1983
Teaching Award Nomination, SOAR/AMOCO, Boulder, Colorado, 1986
Governor's Award, Outstanding Contribution to Humanities, 1986
AAUW American Founders' Fellowship, Florence, Italy, 1987-88
Teaching Award Nomination, BFA, Boulder, 1990
Presidential Teaching Scholar Award Nomination, Boulder, 1991
Professor Emerita, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1992
Numerous Travel, Research Grants, Princeton, Boulder, Colorado, 1972-92

References:

Professor John V. Fleming, English, Princeton University, NJ 08544
Terence Ford, Bibliographer, MLA International Bibliography, MLA, 10 Astor Place, New York, NY 10003
Professor Tore Nyberg, Center fur Historie, Odense Universitet, Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
Sister Anna Maria Reynolds, C.P., Cross and Passion Convent, Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, Eire
Professor Christopher Ricks, English, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, Editor, Penguin Classics
Professor Emeritus Richard J. Schoeck, Comparative Literature, 232 Dakota St, Lawrence, KS 66046-4710
Professor Quentin Skinner, History, Christ's College, Cambridge, England
Sir Richard Southern, History, St John's College, Oxford, England

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