Mary Dzon

Professor Dzon teaches medieval literature courses and specializes in Latin and Middle English religious literature. She is also interested in medieval romances, medieval conceptualizations of the life cycle as well as visual and manuscript studies. She is currently working on a book that explores late-medieval images of the Christ Child.

Selected Publications

Representative Articles

• Forthcoming: Alpha es et O: Studies on the Medieval Christ Child, ed. Mary Dzon and Theresa Kenney (University of Toronto Press).
• Review of Michael E. Goodich, Miracles and Wonders: The Development of the Concept of Miracle, 1150-1350 (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2007), in Speculum 84.1 (2009).
• “Margery Kempe’s Ravishment into the Childhood of Christ,” 27.2 (2006).
• “Conflicting Notions of Pietas in Walter of Wimborne’s Marie Carmina,” Journal of Medieval Latin 15 (2005).
• “Joseph and the Amazing Christ-Child of Late-Medieval Legend,” in Childhood in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: The Results of a Paradigm Shift in the History of Mentality, ed. Albrecht Classen (New York and Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005).
• “The Liminality of Childhood and Adolescence in Late Medieval Lives of Christ,” in Limina: Thresholds and Borders, ed. Joseph Goering et al. (Ottawa: Legas, 2005).

Awards

• NEH Seminar Participant, “St. Francis of Assisi and the Thirteenth Century” (Summer 2008)
• Junior Fellow, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University (2007-2008)

 

 

 

Contact Information

Mary Dzon
Assistant Professor
Department of English
410 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6960
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: mdzon@utk.edu

Education

B.A., Thomas Aquinas College
M.A., University of Dallas
Certificate in Medieval and Byzantine Studies, Catholic University of America
Ph.D., University of Toronto

Research

Medieval Literature and Culture