Laura L. Howes

Selected Publications

• Chaucer's Gardens and the Language of Convention (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997).

Representative articles

• “Chaucer’s Criseyde: The Betrayer Betrayed,” Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning, ed. S.P. Prior and R. Stein (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)
• "Narrative Time and Literary Landscapes in Middle English Poetry," Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 83.1 (Spring 2000) 165-81
• "Theophany in the 'Miller's Tale'" (with Frederick M. Biggs), Medium AEvum LXV (1996), 269-79
• "Are There Benefits to Marginality?" Medieval Feminist Newsletter 15 (1993), 3-4
• "Cultured Nature in Chaucer's Early Dream-Poems," Medieval View of Nature, ed. Joyce E. Salisbury (Garland Press, 1993), 187-200
• Rev. of John C. Hirsh, The Revelations of Margery Kempe, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992), 156-58
• "On the Birth of Margery Kempe's Last Child," Modern Philology 90.2 (November 1992), 220-25
• Rev. of Winthrop Wetherbee, Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991), 257-59
• "Exegetes in Sheep's Clothing and Other Post-Modern Medievalists," Critical Texts: A Review of Theory and Criticism 7:1 (1990), 69-75.

Honors

• James T. Chappell Scholar-in-the-Schools, 2000-01
• College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Advising Service Award, 1998-99
• College of Arts and Sciences Junior Teaching Award, 1993-94
• John C. Hodges Excellence in Teaching Award, 1991

Associations & Organizations

• Chair, Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies Program, 2001-04
• Director, The MARCO Project (Medieval and Renaissance Curriculum and Outreach), 2001-03.

Contact Information

Laura L. Howes
Associate Professor
Department of English
312 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6937
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: lhowes@utk.edu

Education

B.A., Cornell University
M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Research

Medieval Literature