Malory and Christianity: Essays on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur

Contributors

Contributors 203 Felicia nimue Ackerman is professor of philosophy at brown university.Much of her research deals with how analytic philosophy can enrich Malory scholarship and vice versa. Her publications dealing with Malory include essays, book reviews, short stories, light verse, and op-ed columns. Her most recent piece in Arthuriana is “‘Your charge is to me a plesure’: Manipulation, Gareth, Lynet, and Malory,” Arthuriana 19.3 (2009). Her book Ethics and Character in Malory’s “Le Morte D’Arthur” is forthcoming in the Palgrave series Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. dorsey Armstrong is associate professor of english at Purdue university,where she teaches courses on old and Middle english, the medieval world, history of the english language, and Arthurian literature. Her research focuses primarily on Sir Thomas Malory—her book Gender and the Chivalric Community in Sir Thomas Malory’s “Morte d’Arthur (university Press of Florida) appeared in 2003 and her modern english translation—Sir Thomas Malory’s “Morte Darthur”: A New English Translation Based on the Winchester Manuscript (Parlor Press) appeared in 2009. Currently she serves as editor-in-chief of the academic journal Arthuriana and is working on a book entitled Mapping Malory’s Morte (co-authored with Kenneth Hodges) due to appear from Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. Karen Cherewatuk, professor of english at St. olaf College, northfield, Mn, has always been fascinated by the intersection of literature and the cultural context that produces it. Malory’s attention to the details of funeral rituals served as the catalyst to the article in this collection, while her book Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory’s Morte Darthur (Arthurian Studies, d. S. brewer, 2006) explores late medieval ideas about marriage (as opposed to adultery) that undergird the Morte Darthur. With ulrike Wiethaus, she edited Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre (univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1993) and with K.S.Whetter The Arthurian Way of Death (Arthurian Studies,2009).Cherewatuk’s scholarship aims to help modern readers understand something of the assumptions with which medieval audiences approached a text. d. thomas Hanks, Jr., has been at baylor university for thirty-five years. His teaching and research focus on stylistic and manuscript issues in Malory’s Morte Darthur, on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and on classics of children’s literature. He has published in Arthuriana, the Arthurian Studies series, The Arthurian Yearbook, The Chaucer Review, ELN, The Children’s Literature Journal, and in various edited volumes of studies on Chaucer or Malory. He has also recorded in several Chaucerian or Malorian roles with the Chaucer Studio. Sue ellen Holbrook is professor of english at Southern Connecticut State university, specializing in composition/rhetoric and medieval literature. She has published essays and book reviews in various venues,including “nymue,the Chief Lady of the Lake, in Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur” in Arthurian Women (Garland, 1996), revised in On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries, in which she also published an essay on a biographical review of Helaine Scudder. She regularly presents papers at national and international conferences on medieval literature. Janet Jesmok retired emerita in 2001 from the Honors College of the university of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she taught courses in epic and romance, Arthurian literature, Chaucer, and academic writing. She has been involved in Malory studies since the late 1970s, when she wrote her dissertation on Malory’s women. She has been a frequent presenter at the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan university and participated in Reading Malory Aloud for several years. Her essays, often focusing on issues of language, women and gender, heroism, and the pyschology of knighthood, have appeared most recently in Arthuriana. Corey olsen is president of Signum university and founder of the Mythgard Institute, an online teaching center for the study of tolkien and other works of imaginative literature. He received his Phd in medieval literature from Columbia university, and his research interests include Malory, Chaucer, and tolkien. His first book, Exploring J.R.R.Tolkien’s The Hobbit, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012. Fiona tolhurst is maître assistante in medieval and early modern english at the university of Geneva. Her previous publications in the field of Arthurian studies include two monographs: Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Feminist Origins of the Arthurian Legend (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Geoffrey of Monmouth 204 Contributors and the Translation of Female Kingship (Palgrave Macmillan...