Curriculum Vitae: Robert S. Sturges

CURRICULUM VITAE: ROBERT S. STURGES

Personal

Full name:Robert Stuart Sturges

Address:2404 East Cairo Drive

Tempe, AZ 85282

USA

Home telephone/fax:+(480) 459-5118

Mobile:+(602) 714-3920

Office:Dept. of English

Arizona State University

P.O. Box 870302

Tempe, AZ 85287-0302

Office telephone:+(480) 965-4861

Office fax:+(480) 965-3451, attn. Robert Sturges

E-mail:

Website:

Education

1987:Seminar on Scholarly Editing, Rare Book School, Columbia University

1980:Seminar on Vernacular Paleography, Harvard University/Medieval Academy

1979:Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Brown University

Dissertation: “Interpretation as Action: The Reader in Late Medieval Narrative”

Director: Elizabeth D. Kirk

1976:Institut d’Etudes françaises, Avignon

1976:M.A. in Comparative Literature, Brown

1974:B.A. in English and French, summa cum laude, University of Bridgeport

Teaching Positions

2007-present:Professor of English, Arizona State University

2006-07:Visiting Professor of English, ASU

Fall 2005:Adjunct Professor of English, Indiana University

2002-07:University Research Professor of English, University of New Orleans

1996-2002:Professor of English, UNO

1991-96:Associate Professor of English, UNO

1988-91:Assistant Professor of English, UNO

1981-88:Assistant Professor of English, Wesleyan University

1980-81:Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, M.I.T.

Spring 1980:Teaching Fellow in Comparative Literature, Brown University

1978-79:Instructor in French, Kaimuki School, Honolulu

1976-78:Teaching Assistant in Comparative Literature, Brown

Research: Books and Essay Collections

Monographs (as single author):

The Ghost and Its Wife: Religion, Society, and Desire in a Medieval Town. In preparation.

The Circulation of Power in Medieval Biblical Drama: Theaters of Authority. Under contract to Palgrave (New Middle Ages series). Manuscript delivery date: 2013.

Dialogue and Deviance: Male-Male Desire in the Dialogue Genre (Plato to Aelred, Plato to Sade, Plato to the Postmodern). New York: Palgrave, 2005.

Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse. Studies in the New Middle Ages. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

Medieval Interpretation: Models of Reading in Literary Narrative, 1100-1500. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.

Essay collections (as editor):

Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 28. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.

Chrétien’s Knight of the Cart and Critical Theory. Invited special issue of Arthuriana 6.2 (Summer, 1996).

Editions and translations (as editor/translator):

Aucassin and Nicolette: A New Edition and Translation. In preparation.

The Middle English Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquies: A Dual-Text Edition, with introduction, notes, and glossary. With Elizabeth Urquhart. In preparation, under the auspices of the Middle English Texts series. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag. Forthcoming.

Research: Essays and Book Chapters

“Race, Sex, Slavery: Aucassin et Nicolette and Gottfried’s Tristan.” In preparation.

“The Raw and the Cooked in the Roman de Silence: Merlin at the Limit of the Human.” In preparation.

“Medievalism in Opera.” In Handbook of Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, ed. Gail Ashton. Volume under contract to Continuum. In preparation.

“The Guise and the Two Jerusalems.” Solicited for The Guise Century, ed. Jessica Munns and Penny Richards. Essay completed and accepted; volume in preparation.

“The Pseudo-Augustinian Writings.” Solicited for The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, ed. Karla Pollmann and Willemien Otten. Oxford: University Press, 2013. In press.

“Medievalism and Periodization: Environment, Class, and Miracle in Frozen River and The Second Shepherds’ Play.” In Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture: Fascinations and Fantasies, ed. Daniel T. Kline and Gail Ashton.Studies in the New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Forthcoming.

“Desire and Devotion, Vision and Touch in the Vita Nuova.” Solicited for Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages, ed. Tristan Kay, Francesca Southerden, Manuele Gragnolati, and Elena Lombardi. Oxford: Legenda, 2012. In press.

“Introduction: Laws and Sovereignties in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.” In Law and Sovereignty in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Robert S. Sturges. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Turnhout: Brepols, 2011. ix-xv.

“‘Nerehand nothyng to pay or to take’: Poverty, Labor, and Ideology in Four Towneley Plays.” Solicited for Money, Morality, and Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Juliannn Vitullo and Diane Wolfthal. London: Ashgate Press, 2010: 13-32.

“Visual Pleasure and La vita nuova: Lacan, Mulvey, and Dante.” Solicited for Pleasure and Danger in Perception: The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Corine Schleif and Richard Newhauser. Special issue of The Senses and Society 5.1 (March, 2010): 93-105.

“The State of Exception and Sovereign Masculinity in Troilus and Criseyde.” Solicited for Men and Masculinity in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, ed. Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec. London: Boydell & Brewer, 2008: 28-42. Repr. In Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, vol. 173. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit: Gale, 2010.

“‘Wols-hede and outhorne’: The Ban, Bare Life, and Power in the Passion Plays.” Solicited for Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature:Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Kirk, ed. Bonnie Wheeler. New York: Palgrave, 2006. 93-108.

“The Pardoner in Canterbury: Class, Gender, and Urban Space in the Prologue tothe Tale of Beryn.” College Literature 33.3 (Summer, 2006): 52-76.

“Purgatory in the Marriage Bed: Conjugal Sodomy in The Gast of Gy.” Solicited for Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Ed. Rosalynn Voaden and Diane Wolfthal. ACMRS Medieval Texts and Studies. Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. 57-78.

“‘So Was this Castle Laid Wide Open’: Battles for the Phallus in Early Modern Responses to Chaucer’s Pardoner.” Solicited for Gender, Power, and Privilege in Early Modern Europe, c. 1500-1700. Ed. Jessica Munns and Penny Richards. London: Longman, 2003. 40-55.

“The Cross-Dresser and the Iuventus in Silence.” In Le Roman de Silence. Ed. Regina Psaki. Special issue of Arthuriana 12.1 (Spring, 2002): 37-49.

“The Middle English Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquies and Its Anti-Wycliffite Commentary” (introduction, translation, and Middle English text). In Cultures of Piety: Medieval English Devotional Literature in Translation. Ed. Anne Clark Bartlett and Thomas H. Bestul. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. 41-63 and 166-180 (appendix).

“The Construction of Heterosexual Desire in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan.” Exemplaria 10 (1998): 243-269.

“Epistemology of the Bedchamber: Memory, Knowledge, and the Representation of Adultery in Malory and the Prose Lancelot.” In Arthurian Adultery. Ed. Mark Adderley. Special issue of Arthuriana 7.4 (Winter, 1997): 47-62.

“The Pardoner, Veiled and Unveiled.” In Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Ed. Jeffrey J. Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler. Studies in the New Middle Ages. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997. 261-277.

“Chrétien’s Knight of the Cart and Critical Theory.” In Chrétien’s Knight of the Cart and Critical Theory. Ed. Robert S. Sturges. Special issue of Arthuriana 6.2 (Summer, 1996): 1-10.

“Desire, Allegory, and the Structure of the Prose Lancelot.” Dalhousie French Studies 34 (Spring, 1996): 3-15.

“Medieval Authorship and the Polyphonic Text: From Manuscript Commentary to the Modern Novel.” In Bakhtin and Medieval Voices. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida P, 1995. 122-137.

“Chrétien de Troyes in English Translation: A Guide to the Issues.” Arthuriana 4 (1994): 205-223.

“The Critical Reception of Machaut’s Voir-Dit and the History of Literary History.” French Forum 17 (1992): 133-51.

“Spectacle and Self-Knowledge: The Authority of the Audience in the Mystery Plays.” South Central Review 9:2 (Summer, 1992): 27-48.

“Ascalaphus and Procne: Myth and Meaning in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde.” ANQ New Series 4 (1991): 63-67.

“Textual Scholarship: Ideologies of Literary Production.” In Reflections in the Frame: New Perspectives on the Study of Medieval Literature. Ed. Peter Allen and Jeff Rider. Special issue of Exemplaria 3.1 (March, 1991): 109-31.

“La(ca)ncelot.” Arthurian Interpretations 4.2 (Spring, 1990): 12-23.

“Anti-Wycliffite Commentary in Richardson MS 22.” Harvard Library Bulletin 34 (1986): 380-95.

“Speculation and Interpretation in Machaut’s Voir-Dit.” Romance Quarterly 33 (1986): 23-33.

“A Middle English Version of the Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquies.” Manuscripta 29 (1985): 73-79.

“The Canterbury Tales’ Women Narrators: Three Traditions of Female Authority.” Modern Language Studies 12 (1983): 41-51.

“Texts and Readers in Marie de France’s Lais.” Romanic Review 71 (1980): 244-64.

Research: Encyclopedia Entries

“Asses, Feast of.” In The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 1:195.

“Bestiary.” In The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 1:253-54.

“Boy Bishop.” In The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 1:284.

“Fools, Feast of.” In The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 2:648.

“John of Mirecourt.” In The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 3:906.

“Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay.” In The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 3:1286.

“Blitzstein, Marc (1905-1964).” In Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, vol. 2, Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia, ed. George E. Haggerty. New York: Garland Publishing, 2000. 125-126.

Research: Reviews

Review of Holly A. Crocker, Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood. Journal of British Studies 51.1 (January, 2012). Forthcoming.

Review of Paul Hammond, Figuring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research 18.1 (Summer, 2003): 53-56.

Review of Sahar Amer, Ésope au féminin: Marie de France et la politique de l’interculturalité. Speculum 77 (2002): 462-464.

Review of The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520, ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne et al. Journal of English and Germanic Philology (July, 2001): 433-435.

“Pleasure and Danger in the Fourteenth Century.” Review of Elizabeth B. Keiser, Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia: The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in Cleanness and Its Contexts. Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 25.3 (Fall, 1998): 20-21.

Review of Suzanne Reynolds, Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric, and the Classical Text. Arthuriana 8.3 (1998): 101-103.

Review of Catherine S. Cox, Gender and Language in Chaucer. The Medieval Review [on-line]. 98.07.01 [cited 1997-07-28]. Available from Internet:

Review of Jesse M. Gellrich, Discourse and Dominion in the Fourteenth Century. The Medieval Review [on-line]. 97.11.01 [cited 1997-11-5]. Available from Internet:

Review of Marilynn Desmond, Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid. Chaucer Yearbook 4 (1997): 105-09.

Review of James H. Johnson, Listening in Paris: A Cultural History. French Review 69 (1996): 1044-45.

Review of Paul Strohm, Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts. Arthuriana 5.3 (Fall, 1995): 135-137.

Review of Gregory B. Stone, The Death of the Troubadour: The Late Medieval Resistance to the Renaissance. Speculum 70 (1995): 682-684.

“Medieval Masculinity (Singular).” Review of Medieval Masculinities, ed. Clare A. Lees. Lesbian and Gay Studies Newsletter 22.1 (March, 1995): 26-27.

Review of The New Medievalism, ed. Marina S. Brownlee, Kevin Brownlee, and Stephen G. Nichols. Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993): 174-177.

Review of Robert Francis Cook, The Sense of the Song of Roland. Romance Quarterly 37 (1990): 218-19.

Review of Mary Jane Stearns Schenk, The Fabliaux: Tales of Wit and Deception. Romance Quarterly 36 (1989): 486-88.

Review of E. Jane Burns, Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle. Romanic Review 77 (1986): 452-55.

Review of Machaut’s World: Science and Art in the Fourteenth Century, ed. Madeleine Pelner Cosman and Bruce Chandler. Romanic Review 72 (1981): 496-98.

Future Research

Chaucer’s Critical Theories

Speech and Writing in The Canterbury Tales

“Chaucer’s Pardoner: Toward a Queer Edition”

Research: Lectures and Conferences

Plenary sessions:

“Pieces of Gower: University Pedagogy and the Middle Ages.” International Gower Society conference. Queen Mary University, London, England. July, 2008.

“Sodomy and Sense: Bodily (In)Visibility in The Gast of Gy.” “Seeing Gender” conference. King’s College, London, England. January, 2002.

Invited lectures:

“Merlin: the Limits of the Human.” Simpson lecture. University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia. April, 2011.

“The Guise and the Two Jerusalems.” Symposium on The Guise Century. University of Naples, Italy. November, 2010.

“History Is Queerer Than That.” Symposium on “Disciplinary Fault Lines.” Institute for Humanities Research. Arizona State University. November, 2010.

“Between Heresy and Authority: St. Augustine, the Bible, and the Lollards in the Middle English Soliloquies.”Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaisssance Studies. September, 2010.

“Poverty, Labor, and Profit in the Works of the Wakefield Master.” “Trading Values” faculty seminar. Institute for Research in the Humanities / Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Arizona State University. October, 2006.

“Autobiographical Criticism and the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn.” Invited lecture. University of Kansas. March, 2005.

“Report from a Professional Amateur.” “Careers in Research” series. University of

New Orleans. October, 2002.

“Dialogue and Desire: Friendship, Sexuality, Virtue, and Temperance from Plato’s Lysis to Aelred of Rievaulx.” Invited lecture. Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. April, 2002.

“Women as Men in the Middle Ages: Cultural Functions of the Representation of Transgendered Women.” Women’s Studies lecture series. University of New Orleans. September, 2000.

“Chaucer, Patronage, and Gender Politics: The Peasants’ Revolt and the Revolting Pardoner.” Invited lecture. University of Denver. March, 1999.

“What Is a (Medieval) Text? Theories of Editing and Ideologies of the Subject, Medieval to Postmodern.” English Department Faculty Lecture Series. University of New Orleans. March, 1990.

“Indeterminacy of Literary Meaning and Late Medieval Culture.” Medieval Faculty Seminar. University of Pennsylvania. November, 1984.

“Medieval Studies vs. Literary Theory: Deconstructing the Opposition.” Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities. October, 1983.

Conference presentations:

“Vision and Touch in Plato, Aristotle, Dante, and Chaucer.” New Chaucer Society conference. Portland, OR. July, 2012.

“Ethnicity, Slavery, and the Erotic in Two Thirteenth-Century Romances.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference. Tempe, AZ. February, 2012.

“Frozen River and The Second Shepherds’ Play: Landscape, Class, Miracle.” International Conference on Medievalism, University of New Mexico. October, 2011.

“Desire and Devotion, Vision and Touch in Dante’s Vita nuova.” Medieval Academy of America meeting. Tempe, AZ. April, 2011.

“Visual and Tactile Pleasures: The Idolatrous Gaze in Troilus and Criseyde.” New Chaucer Society conference. Siena, Italy. July, 2010.

“Desire and Devotion, Vision and Touch in Dante’s Vita nuova.” “Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages” conference. Somerville College, University of Oxford. Accepted. April, 2010. (Conference cancelled)

“The Raw and the Cooked in the Roman de Silence.” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference. Tempe, AZ. February, 2010.

“Gender and Visual Pleasure in Dante’s La Vita nuova.” ASU/IHR seminar on “The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.” Spring, 2009.

“Sodomy, the Albigensian Crusade, and Aucassin et Nicolette.” “Queer Peoples” conference. Christ’s College, Cambridge University. July, 2006.

“Gender, Race, and the Albigensian Crusade in Aucassin et Nicolette.” Modern Language Association Convention. Washington, D. C. December, 2005.

“Empire, Opera, and the Exotic Body.” “Visual Cultures” conference. Kansas State University. March, 2005.

“Operatic Cleopatra.” Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans. October, 2004.

“Gender and Class in Fifteenth-Century Canterbury: The Prologue to The Tale of Beryn.” Medieval Academy of America. New York City. April, 2002.

“Gender and Class in the Fifteenth Century: The Prologue to The Tale of Beryn.” Convention of the Modern Language Association. New Orleans. December, 2001.

“Catherine of Aragon and the Anxiety of Succession: Heywood’s Foure P.P.” Convention of the Modern Language Association. New Orleans. December, 2001.

“Gender and Class in the Fifteenth Century: The Prologue to The Tale of Beryn.” Rocky Mountain Medieval Association. Colorado State University. May, 2001.

“Aelred of Rievaulx: Dialogue and Gender Deviance.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. May, 2001.

“Dialogue and Deviance: Aelred of Rievaulx.” Mid-America Medieval Association. University of Missouri at Kansas City. February, 2001.

“Women, Textuality, and Power in the Middle English Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquies.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. May, 2000.

“Nicolette and Carnivalesque Monsters.” “Virile Women, Consuming Men: Gender and Monstrous Appetites in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance” conference. University of Aberystwyth, Wales. April, 2000.

“The Cross-Dresser and the Iuvenes: Category Crisis in Le Roman de Silence.” South Central Modern Language Association. Memphis, Tennessee. October, 1999.

“Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Transgression in The Abbot.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. May, 1999.

“The Construction of Heterosexual Desire in Gottfried’s Tristan.” “The Queer Middle Ages” conference. New York City. November, 1998.

“Homosociality and the Ideological State Apparatus in Gottfried’s Tristan.” Invited speaker. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. May, 1998.

“Response to D. C. Greetham.” Invited speaker. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. May, 1998.

“The Gendered and Ethnic Other in Gottfried’s Tristan.” “Towards 2000: Gender and Race in the Next Century” colloquium. Tulane University. April, 1998.

“The Construction of Heterosexual Desire in Gottfried’s Tristan.” Invited speaker. New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Sarasota, Florida. March, 1998.

“Sodomy Translated: Alain de Lille, Chaucer’s Pardoner, and the Critics.” Convention of the South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans. November, 1994.

“Social Constructions of Text and Author in Medieval Literature and its Modern Editions.” “Language and Society in the Middle Ages” conference. Tulane University. February, 1991.

“Desire and the Structure of the Vulgate Cycle.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. May, 1989.

“A Middle English Devotional Text: Male Commentator and Female Readers.” Convention of the Modern Language Association. New Orleans. December, 1988.

“La(ca)ncelot.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. May, 1988.

“The Voir-Dit and Literary Theory.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. May, 1987.

“Literary Indeterminacy, Premodern and Postmodern.” Convention of the Modern Language Association. New York. December, 1986.

“St. John, the Wife of Bath, and the Poetics of Misinterpretation.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. May, 1985.

“Love and Reading in Troilus and Criseyde: Sexuality as Textuality.” Convention of the Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C. December, 1984.