Curriculum
vitae
Pamela
Sheingorn
Fellow,
Medieval Academy of America
Professor
of History Emerita, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Professor
of History and of Theatre Emerita, The Graduate Center, CUNY
July
1, 1999-June 30, 2006:
Executive
Officer, Ph.D. Program in Theatre
The
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Contact
Information:
220
Shaker Boulevard, Enfield, NH 03748
ph. 603-632-7569; e-mail: pamsh@mac.com
Education:
B.A.
University of Kansas, 1966 (with honors in art history)
M.A.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1969, art history
Thesis: The Naumburg Choir Figures
Ph.D.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974, art history (minor in medieval studies)
Dissertation: The Easter Sepulchre: A
Study in Art and Liturgy
Publications
Books:
1. The
Easter Sepulchre in England.
Early Drama, Art, and Music Reference Series 5. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 1987.
2. Interpreting
Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Society. A collection of
essays with 68-page introduction. Co-edited with Kathleen Ashley. Athens: University of Georgia Press,
1990.
3. The
Book of Sainte Foy.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995; reprinted
1995. A translation of the Liber
miraculorum Sancte Fidis and other texts relevant to the cult of the female
child martyr Sainte Foy.
4. Writing Faith: Text, Sign, and
History in the Miracles of Sainte Foy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Co-author: Kathleen Ashley
5. Same-Sex
Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages.
New York: Palgrave, 2001. A collection of essays co-edited with Francesca
Canad Sautman; includes a substantial introduction by the co-editors.
6. Myth, Montage, and the Visuality in
Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine de Pizans Epistre Othea. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003 (paperback, 2006). Co-author:
Marilynn Desmond.
Articles:
1.
Reynolds v. United States: Nineteenth Century Forms of Marriage and the Status
of Women, Connecticut Law Review, 10 (1978): 828-858 (with Carol
Weisbrod); reprinted in Collected Articles on
American Constitutional and Legal History, edited by Kermit L. Hall, New
York: Garland, 1986.
2.
The Sepulchrum Domini: A Study in Art and Liturgy, Studies in Iconography 4 (1978): 37-60.
3. On
Using Medieval Art in the Study of Medieval Drama: An Introduction to
Methodology, Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 22 (1979):
101-109.
4.
The Moment of Resurrection in the Corpus Christi Plays, Medievalia et Humanistica, 11 (1982): 111-129.
5.
All This was Token Domysday to Drede: Visual Signs of Last Judgment in the
Corpus Christi Cycles and in Late Gothic Art, in Homo, Memento Finis: The
Last Judgment in Medieval Art and Drama, ed. David Bevington et al.
Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1985, 121-45 (with David
Bevington).
6.
For God is such a Doomsman: Origins and Development of the Theme of Last
Judgment, in Homo, Memento Finis, ed. Bevington et al, 15-58.
7.
The Bosom of Abraham Trinity: A Late Medieval All Saints Image, in England
in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, ed.
Daniel Williams. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1987, 273-95.
8.
Illustrations in the Manuscript of the Lille Plays, Research Opportunities
in Renaissance Drama 30 (1988): 173-76.
9.
No Sepulchre on Good Friday: The Impact of the Reformation on the Easter
Rites in England, in Iconoclasm versus Art and Drama, ed. Clifford
Davidson and Ann Eljenholm Nichols (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications,
1989): 145-63.
10.
The Visual Language of Drama: Principles of Composition, in Contexts for
Early English Drama, ed. Marianne Briscoe and John Coldeway. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1989, 174-92.
11.
Fourteen entries on English medieval alabasters in Gothic Sculpture in
American Collections, Volume 1: The New England Museums, ed. Dorothy
Gillerman. New York: Garland, 1989.
12. The
Te Deum Altarpiece and the Iconography of Praise, in Early Tudor England:
Proceedings of the 1987 Harlaxton Symposium, ed. Daniel Williams.
Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1989, 171-82.
13.
The Holy Kinship: The Ascendency of Matriliny in Sacred Genealogy of the
Fifteenth Century, Thought: A Review of Culture and Idea (Fordham
University Quarterly) 64, No. 254 (1989): 268-86.
14. Typology and the Teaching of Medieval
Drama, in Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama, ed. Richard K.
Emmerson. New York: The Modern Language
Association of America, 1990, 90-100.
15.
Appropriating the Holy Kinship: Gender and Family History, in Interpreting
Cultural Symbols: Saint Anne in Late Medieval Society, 169-98.
16.
Who can open the doors of his face?: The
Iconography of Hell Mouth, in The Iconography of Hell, ed. Clifford
Davidson. Kalamazoo: The Medieval Institute, 1992, 1-19.
17.
An Unsentimental View of Ritual in the Middle Ages, Or, Sainte Foy was No Snow
White, Journal of Ritual Studies 6.1 (Winter 1992): 63-85 (with
Kathleen Ashley).
18.
The Virtues of Hildegard's Ordo Virtutum; or, It Was a Woman's
World, in The Ordo Virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen, ed. Audrey Ekdahl
Davidson. Kalamazoo: The Medieval Institute, 1992, 43-62.
19.
The Wise Mother: The Image of Saint Anne Teaching the Virgin Mary, Gesta
32.1 (1993): 73-85.
20.
Medieval Drama Studies and the New Art History, Mediaevalia 18 (1995 for
1992): 143-62.
21. Le culte de Sainte Foy Slestat et
Conques: tude comparative, (with
Kathleen Ashley),
Annuaire 1994. Les amis de la
Bibliothque Humaniste de Slestat, 77-83.
22. And flights of angels sing thee to
thy rest: The Soul's Conveyance to the Afterlife in the Middle
Ages, in Art Into Life: Collected Papers from the Kresge Art Museum
Medieval Symposia, ed. Carol Fisher and Kathleen Scott. East Lansing:
Michigan State University Press, 1995,: 155-82.
23.
Translations of Sainte Foy: Bodies, Texts, Places (with Kathleen Ashley), in The
Medieval Translator ,
vol. 5, ed. Roger Ellis. Turnhout: Brepols, 1996, 29-49.
24. The Maternal Behavior of God: Divine
Father as Fantasy Husband, in Medieval Mothering, ed. John Carmi Parson and Bonnie Wheeler, with an
Introduction by Jacqueline Murray. New York: Garland, 1996, 77-99.
25. Discordia et
lis: Negotiating Power, Property, and Performance in Medieval Selestat, The
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 26.3 (Fall 1996):
419-446. A topical issue on Maps
of Authority: Conflict in Medieval and Early Modern Urban Landscapes edited by
Annabel Wharton. (with Kathleen Ashley).
26. The Bodily Embrace Or Embracing the
Body: Gesture and Gender in Late Medieval Drama and Art, in The Stage as
Mirror: Civic Theatre in Late Medieval Europe, ed. Alan E. Knight. Cambridge: D. S.
Brewer, 1997, 51-89.
27. Se in what stat thou dost
indwell: The Shifting Constructions of Gender in Wisdom, in The
Performance of Middle English Culture, ed. Lawrence Clopper, James Paxson,
and Sylvia Tomasch (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1998), 43-57; (with Marlene
Clark and Sharon Kraus).
28.
Queering Ovidian Myth: Bestiality and Desire in Christine de Pizans Othea,
in Queering the Middle Ages, ed. Glenn Burger and Steven Kruger.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001, 3-27. (with
Marilynn Desmond)
29. Liturgy as Social Performance, (with
Kathleen Ashley), in Teaching the Medieval Liturgy, ed. Thomas Heffernan
and E. Ann Matter. Kalamazoo: MIP, 2001, 695-714.
30.Sainte
Foy on the Loose, or the Possibilities of Procession at Conques, (with
Kathleen Ashley) in Ludus 5(2001) Moving Subjects: The Semiotics of
Processional Performance, 53-67.
31.
Illustris patriarcha Joseph: Jean Gerson, Representations of Saint Joseph,
and Imagining Community among Churchmen in the Fifteenth Century, in Visions
of Community in the Pre-Modern World, ed. Nicholas Howe. Notre Dame:
University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, 75-108.
32. Joseph the Carpenters Failure at
Familial Discipline, in Insights and Interpretations, ed. Colum Hourihane.
Princeton: Index of Christian Art in association with Princeton University
Press, 2002, 156-67.
33.Performative
Reading: The Illustrated Manuscripts of Arnoul Grbans Mystere de la
Passion. European Medieval Drama 6 (2002): 129-54. (with Robert L. A. Clark)
34.
Constructing the Patriarchal Parent: Fragments of the Biography of Joseph the
Carpenter, in Framing the Family: Narrative and Representation in the
Medieval and Early Modern Periods, edited by Rosalyn Voaden and Diane
Wolfthal, 161-80. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
2005.
35.
Performative Reading: Experiencing through the Poets Body in Guillaume de
Digullevilles Plerinage de Jhesucrist in Cultural Performances in
Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman Regalado edited by E.
Jane Burns, Roberta Krueger, and Eglal Doss-Quinby, 135-61. Woodbridge: Boydell
and Brewer, 2007. (with Robert L. A. Clark)
36.
Visible Words: Gesture and Performance in the Miracles de Nostre Dame par
Personnages (fr. 819-820) in Parisian Confraternity Drama of the
Fourteenth Century, edited by Donald and Sara Sturm-Maddox, 193-208.
Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. (with Robert L. A. Clark)
37.
Performing the Illustrated Manuscript: Great Reckonings in Little Books in Visualizing
Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts edited by Elina
Gertsman, 57-82. Burlington, VT:
Ashgate, 2008.
38. "Were Guillaume de Digullevilles Plerinages
Plays? The Case for Arras 845
as Performative Anthology." European Medieval Drama,
12 (2008): 109-47. (with Robert L. A. Clark).
39.
Subjection and Reception in Claude of Frances Book of First Prayers,
in The Four Modes of Seeing: Approaches to Medieval Imagery in Honor of
Madeline Harrison Caviness, edited by Evelyn Staudinger Lane, Elizabeth
Carson Pastan, Ellen M. Shortell, 313-32.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.
40. Reshapings of the Childhood Miracles
of Jesus, in Alpha es et O: Studies on the Christ Child in the Middle Ages,
edited by Mary Dzon and Theresa Kenney. University of Toronto
Press, forthcoming 2010.
41.
Encountering a Dream Vision: Visual and Verbal Glosses to Guillaume de
Digullevilles Pelerinage Jhesucrist in Push Me, Pull You, a
collection of essays edited by Sarah Blick and Laura Gelfand to be published by
Brill. (with Robert L. A. Clark).
42.
Ces mots ici verrez juer: Performative Presence and Social Life in the Arras
Passion Manuscript, in The Social Life of Medieval Illuminations:
Manuscripts, Images, and communities in the Late Middle Ages edited by
Joyce Coleman, Marcus Cruse, and Kathryn Smith, to be published by Brepols. (with Robert L. A. Clark).
43.
"Making the Cognitive Turn in Art History: A Case Study," in Emerging
Disciplines. Rice University Press, forthcoming.
Translations:
1. The Passion of Saint Ursula and the
Eleven Thousand Virgins (Regnante Domino). Translated with notes by Pamela Sheingorn and Marcelle
Thibaux. Vox Benedictina 6
(1989): 257-292. This translation was also published separately as number 16 in
the Peregrina Translation Series.
2. Sermon on the Birthday of the 11,000
Virgins (Sermo natale).
Translated with notes by Pamela Sheingorn and Marcelle Thibaux. Vox Benedictina 10.1 (Summer
1993): 38-55.
Reviews and Review Essays:
1. The Carmina Burana Greater Passion Play at
the Cloisters, Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 25 (1982):
139-144 (with Theresa Coletti).
2. Wisdom at Trinity College, Research
Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 27 (1984): 179-84 (with Theresa
Coletti).
3.
Indiana Presents St. Nicholas at Kalamazoo, Research Opportunities in
Renaissance Drama 29 (1986-87): 99-103 (with Andrew Tomasello).
4.
N-Town Pageants: A Medieval History of the World, Envoi: A Review Journal
of Medieval Literature 1 (1988): 364-71 (with Richard Emmerson).
5.
Response to Joseph Gutmann, What Can Jewish History Learn From Jewish
Art? (Occasional
Papers in Jewish History and Thought, 3). New York: Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate School and
University Center, CUNY, 1989: 19-25.
6.
Review of Sandro Sticca, The Planctus Mariae in the Dramatic
Tradition of the Middle Ages. University of Georgia Press, 1988. Envoi: A Review
Journal of Medieval Literature 2 (1990): 148-52.
7.
Review Essay: The Saints in Medieval Culture: Recent Scholarship, Envoi: A
Review Journal of Medieval Literature 2
(1990): 1-29.
8.
Review of Barbara Palmer, The Early Art of the West Riding of
Yorkshire. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Press, 1990, Speculum 67.3
(July 1992): 735-37.
9.
Review of Adolph Katzenellenbogen, Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in
Medieval Art (MART rpt, 1989; first published 1939), Studies in the Age
of Chaucer 13 (1991): 203-5.
10.
Review of David Rollason, Saints and Relics in Anglo-Saxon England.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989, American Historical Review April 1992:
531-32.
11.
Review of Richard Sharpe, Medieval Irish Saints' Lives: An Introduction to
Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae. New York: Clarendon Press for Oxford University
Press: 1991, American Historical Review. October 1992: 1198-99.
12.
Review of Jeffrey Hamburger, The Rothschild Canticles: Art and Mysticism in
Flanders and the Rhineland circa 1300. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1990, Art Bulletin 74.4 (December 1992): 679-81.
13.
Review of 4 volumes in the Medieval Craftsmen series co-published by the
British Museum Press and the University of Toronto Press: Paul Binski, Painters,
1991; Sarah Brown and David O'Connor, Glass-Painters, 1991; Nicola
Coldstream, Masons and Sculptors, 1991; Kay Staniland, Embroiderers,
1991; in Chaucer Yearbook 1 (1992): 275-80.
14.
Review of Miri Rubin, Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, American Historical Review 98.2
(April 1993): 482-83.
15.
Review of Daniel and the Lions, The Early Drama, Art and Music Review
17.2 (Spring 1995): 109-11.
16. Review of Christian Krtzl, Pilger,
Mirakel und Alltag: Formen des Verhaltens im skandinavischen Mittelalter. Helsinki:
Suomen Historiallinen Seura, 1994, American Historical Review, (October,
1996): 1191.
17.
Reception and the Fleury Mary Magdalene at The Cloisters, The Early Drama,
Art and Music Review 20.1 (Fall 1997): 45-47.
18.
Review of Jerome Baschet, Le Sein du pre: Abraham et
la paternit dans lOccident mdiva.l Paris: Gallimard, 2000, Speculum
78 (2003): 1245-7.
19.
Review of Gia Toussaint, Das Passional der Kunigunde von Bhmen. Bildrhetorik und Spiritualitt. Paderborn: Ferdinant Schningh, 2003, Studies
in Iconography 27 (2006): 213-19.
20.
Review of Virginia Nixon, Marys Mother:
Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe.
University Park: Penn State University Press, 2004, Journal of
Religion 86 (2006): 677-78.
21. Review of Paul Payan, Joseph,
Une image de la paternit dans lOccident mdival. Paris: Aubier,
2006. Studies in Iconography
29 (2008): 263-74.
22. Review of Donnalee Dox, The
Idea of the Theater in Latin Christian Thought: Augustine to the Fourteenth
Century. Ann Arbor: University
of Michigan Press, 2004. Speculum 83 (2008): 979-81.
23. Review of Beate Fricke, Ecce
Fides. Die Statue von Conques, Gtzendienst und Bildkultur im Westen.
Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2007. Studies in Iconography, 32
(2011), forthcoming.
Papers
Presented in the Last Ten Years:
2000:
Cuckold, Step-father, Patriarch, Malevolent Jew: Constructions of Joseph the
Carpenter in Medieval Religious Cultures plenary lecture for a conference on
the four major religious communities found in Europe and the Mediterranean
world during the Middle Ages, sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies,
Pennsylvania State University, March 31-April 1, 2000.
2000:
Sacrifice and Paternity in Late Medieval Visual Culture, Medieval Academy of
America, Austin, Texas, April 2000
2000:
Tensions, Ambiguities, and the Pressures of History: Constructing the Cultural
Biography of Joseph the Carpenter, plenary lecture, International Medieval
Congress, Kalamazoo, May 6, 2000.
2000:
Material Man: Constructions of Joseph in Medieval Drama, invited paper for a
session in honor of Clifford Davidson, International Medieval Congress,
Kalamazoo, May 4-7, 2000.
2000:
Nostre bon concierge: Arnoul Grbans Practical-Minded Joseph, invited
lecture at the New England Medieval Association, Yale University, October
14-15.
2000:
Performative Reading: The Illuminated Manuscripts of Grban's Mystere de
la
Passion (with Robert L. A. Clark);
Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference; December 2; also presented
at SITM (International Congress for Medieval Theatre) held in Groningen, The
Netherlands, July 2001.
2000:
The Knowledge-Producing Function of Violence in Late Medieval Religious
Drama, MLA, December.
2001:
Joseph the Carpenter and Medieval Masculinities or, When Does Saint Joseph Act
Like a Man? invited Lehman Lecture, Emory University; February
2001:
The Politics of Anger: Christine de Pizans Fragmentation of Myth, invited
lecture at the Columbia University Medieval Seminar; February
2001:
The Cultural Work of the Childhood of Jesus, invited lecture at the Delaware
Valley Medieval Association, University of Pennsylvania, April 21.
2001.
Omnipotent or Real? The Father-God in Arnoul Grbans
Mystre de la Passion, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Chicago,
August.
2002:
Fathers and Sons: The Childhood of Jesus in Late Medieval Visual Culture, Art
History Lecture Series, Southern Methodist University, March 21.
2002:
Fathers and Sons: Saint Joseph as Model Parent in Late Medieval and Early
Modern Europe, invited lecture for the conference, The Family in Medieval And
Early Modern Europe, Arizona State University.
2002:
Invited lecture, Gentle Violence: Constructing Saint Joseph the Carpenter,
Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota
2002:
Invited lecture Real Men Change Diapers? Masochism and
Masculinity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Visual Cultures, Art History,
University of Akron.
2003:
invited lecture: Where to Turn?: Seeing Gender in
Medieval Visual Culture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
2003:
Queering Joseph in the Primer of Claude of France, International
Medieval Congress, University of Leeds
2003: Visible Words: Gesture
and Performance in the Miniatures of fr. 819-20, Colloquium on the Miracles
de Nostre Dame par Personnages, Amherst College (with Robert Clark)
2005, April: Invited plenary
lecture, Performance, Gender, Visual Culture: Medieval Studies Has Never Been
Modern, Annual Meeting, Medieval Academy of America,
2005, May: Invited lecture,
Performing the Illustrated Manuscript: Great Reckonings in Little Books,
Conference on Performance/Performativity in the Middle
Ages, University of Chicago.
2005, October: Invited plenary
lecture, The Other Jesus: Medieval Reception of the Childhood Miracles,
Annual Meeting, South-Eastern Medieval Association, Daytona Beach.
2005, November: Invited
lecture, The Illuminated Manuscript: A Medieval Performance Piece? University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Marco Institute of Medieval and
Renaissance Studies.
2006,
February: Invited lecture, Gender, Performance, Visual Culture: Medieval
Studies in the 21st Century, Columbia University.
2006, July: Invited plenary
lecture sponsored by the Medieval Academy, Experiencing the Illustrated
Manuscript: Toward Performative Presence, International Medieval Congress,
University of Leeds.
2007, April: A Path Not
Taken: Joseph the Carpenter as Martyr in the Late Middle
Ages, Columbia Medieval Seminar.
2007, Fall: Ces mots ici
verrez juer: Performative Presence in the Arras Passion Manuscript,
New York University
2008, March: Ecce angelus
Domini apparuit in somnis ioseph: Seeing the Dreams of Joseph the
Carpenter, Conference on Visions, Dreams, and Insights, Princeton University.
2008, March: Was Jesus
Foster-Father a Martyr? Constructing the Death of Joseph the Carpenter,
University of Pittsburgh Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program.
2008,
May: Ces mots ici verrez juer: Performative Presence in the Arras Passion
Manuscript, International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo (with Robert L. A.
Clark)
2008,
October: Encountering the Dying Joseph: Representation, Presentation, and
Cognition in the Study of an Image, Keynote Address, 26th Annual
Art History Symposium, Florida State University
2009,
May: Encountering a Dream Vision: Visual and Verbal Glosses to Guillaume de
Digullevilles Pelerinage Jhesucrist (with Robert L. A. Clark)
2009,
May: Embodied Meaning in Images of the Married Life of Mary and Joseph,
Birkbeck Symposium, Rethinking Medieval Marriage, Birkbeck College,
University of London
2009,
September: Perceiving the Object: Cognitive Studies and Art History,
Symposium, Emerging Disciplines, Rice University, Houston
2010,
March: "Seeing Hearing: The Potential for Multisensory Reception in Early
Illustrated Lives of Mary," Symposium, "Material Images, the Senses,
and Religious Experience in the West from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern
Period," University of Wisconsin, Madison.
2010,
April: "Hearing an Illuminated Manuscript: The Role of the Auditory System
in Performative Reading," Colloquium on Medieval Devotion sponsored by the
PhD Program in Medieval Studies, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Work
in Progress
A
Cultural Biography of Joseph the Carpenter
An
interdisciplinary study of the representations of Joseph, husband of the Virgin
Mary and step-parent of Jesus, from the Early
Christian period to the present. This book is under contract to the University
of Notre Dame Press.
Illustrations in Medieval French Play
Manuscripts (with Robert Clark)
An ongoing study of illustration in relation to
play text in manuscript context.
Fellowships
and Honors
1962-66 Watkins
Scholar, University of Kansas
1962-66 General
Motors National Plan Scholar
1966 Phi Beta Kappa
1967-68 Ford
Foundation Fellow
1968-69 Kress
Foundation Fellow
1970-71 Kress
Foundation Dissertation Research Stipend
1975 CUNY Faculty Research
Award
1977 NEH Summer Seminar,
"Medieval Origins of Modern Drama," directed by Jerome Taylor,
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1978-79 NEH
Fellowship in Residence for College Teachers, University of Chicago; participant
in seminar, "Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England," directed by
David Bevington.
1985-86 NEH
Fellowship for College Teachers.
Project: The Interdependent Origins of Drama and Sculpture in the Early
Middle Ages.
1985-86
Visiting Fellow, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Princeton
University
1991-98 CUNY Faculty
Research Awards
1998-99
Visiting Fellow, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Princeton
University
2002- Fellow,
Medieval Academy of America
2009
"Liminal Spaces," a symposium in my honor, Index of Christian Art,
Princeton University
2010
Recipient of the Medieval Academy of America's Robert L. Kindrick-CARA Award
for Outstanding Service to Medieval Studies.
Professional
Activities
Co-editor
from 1994-2005 with Richard K. Emmerson of Studies in Iconography, an
annual, interdisciplinary journal of 300-400 pages per volume; eleven volumes
appeared under our editorship.
Reader
for The Art Bulletin, Theatre Survey, Gesta, Speculum,
Traditio, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Theater Journal, Medieval
Encounters, Material Religion, Viator, University of North
Carolina Press, University of Chicago Press, Cambridge University Press, Ohio
State University Press, University of California Press, Notre Dame University
Press, University of Pennsylvania Press.
1983-85;
1987-90; 2001; NEH panels, reviews
1982-85; 1990; 1993; National Screening
Committee, Fulbright-Hays Program.
1986-89 Member of Executive Board, Teaching of
the Middle Ages, Inc.
1987-90 Member of Council, Medieval and
Renaissance Drama Society.
1989 Reviewer for American Association of
University Women, Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs.
1990-94 Member of Board of Directors,
Teaching of the Middle Ages, Inc.
1991- Co-founder
and -organizer, Medieval Feminist Art History Project
1991-94
Advisory Committee, International Center of Medieval Art
1991- Steering
Committee, Medieval Studies Program, Graduate Center, CUNY
1991- Advisory
Board, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
1994-96 Member of
Nominating Committee, Medieval Academy of America
1995 Member of faculty, NEH
Summer Institute, Sex and Gender in the Middle Ages,
University of Notre Dame
1995-97
President, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
1995-96 Vice-President,
Medieval Club of New York
1995-98 Board of
Directors, International Center of Medieval Art
1995-97
Member of Fellows Nominating Committee, Medieval Academy of America
1996-98
President, Medieval Club of New York
1996-98
Organizing Committee, conference Queer Middle Ages, Graduate
School,
CUNY, and NYU, November 1998.
1996-2006
Grndler Prize Committee, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University
1999-2002
Councillor of the Medieval Academy of America
1999-2002
Board of Directors, International Center of Medieval Art
1999-2006
Research Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY,
Binghamton
2000-2001
Chair, Program Committee, Medieval Academy of America meeting in New York City,
2002.
2002-2005
Vice-President, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
2006.
2005-2006 President, Medieval and Renaissance Drama
Society
2005-2014
Member of MART Editorial Board, Medieval Academy of America
2005- Member of
Editorial Advisory Board, Studies in Iconography
2009-10
Chair, Nominating Committee, Medieval Academy of America
2009-2011
Scribe to the Fellows, Medieval Academy of America