mwack@mail.wsu.edu
Associate Professor of English, Stanford, 1990-93.
Assistant Professor of English, Stanford, 1982-90.
Reviewed: Mediaevistik 2 (1989-sic) 333-36; Envoi Autumn 1990; Journal of Medieval History v. 16 n. 3 (1990), 272; Journal of the History of Behavioral Sciences 27 (1991), 258-59; London Review of Books 10 May 1990; TLS 13 Dec. 1990; NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands) 22 June 1991; Medium Aevum v. 60, no. 2 (1991), 295-97; Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, ser. 5, vol. 14, no. 2 (1992); Review of English Studies (May 1992); Studi francesi, v. 36, no. 3 (1992), 552-53; Modern Language Review v. 87 n. 4 (1992), 920-21; Isis, v. 83 n. 1 (1992) 123-24; Speculum 68 (1993), 1230-32; Cahiers de civilisation mŽdiŽvale 37 (1994), 294-95 .
"From Mental Faculties to Magical Philtres: The Entry of Magic into Academic Medical Discourse on Lovesickness, 13th-17th Centuries," in Eros in the Renaissance, ed. Donald Beecher and Massimo Ciavolella (Ottawa: Dove House, 1992), pp. 1-23.
with Charles Wright, "A New Latin Source for the Old English 'Three Utterances Exemplum'," Anglo-Saxon England 20 (1991), pp. 187-202.
"Gerard of Solo's Determinatio de amore hereos," Traditio 45 (1991 for 1990).
"Pandarus, Poetry, and Healing" in Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Proceedings, 2 (1987), 127-133.
"The Liber de heros morbo of Johannes Afflacius and its Implications for Medieval Love Conventions," Speculum 62 (1987), 324-344.
"The Measure of Pleasure: Peter of Spain on Men, Women, and Lovesickness," Viator 17 (1986), 173-196.
"New Medieval Medical Texts on Amor hereos," in Zusammenhaenge, Einfluesse, Wirkungen: Kongressakten zum ersten Tuebinger Symposium des Mediaevistenverbandes, ed. Joerg Fichte, Karl Heinz Goeller, and Bernhard Schimmelpfennig (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1986), pp. 288-298.
"Imagination, Medicine, and Rhetoric in Andreas Capellanus' De amore," in Magister Regis: Studies in Honor of R. E. Kaske, ed. Arthur Groos (New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 1986), pp. 101-115.
"Wolfram's Dawn Song 'Sine klawen'", Traditio, 40 (1984), 235-249.
"Lovesickness in Troilus," Pacific Coast Philology, 19 (1984), 55-61.
"Illuminating Chaucer with Electronic Technology," Notes in the Margins, Fall 1992, p. 7.
"New Directions in Medieval Studies," in Western European Studies: Current Research Trends and Library Resources, ed. E. Sartori et al. (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries [American Library Association], 1990), pp. 9-16.
of Elaine Hansen, Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender in Modern Philology (May 1995), 501-505.
Review essay of D.L. Jeffrey, A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature; F. M. Biscoglio, The Strong Woman of Proverbs and the Wives of the Canterbury Tales; E. A. Matter, The Voice of My Beloved: The Song of Songs in Western Christianity, forthcoming (1995) in Mediaevalia et Humanistica.
In progress:
"Women,Work, and Plays in Sixteenth-Century Chester," accepted for Women's Alliances in Early Modern England, ed. Karen Robertson and Susan Frye.
"Pearl and the Psychology of Mourning" (article)
Science and Power in Chaucer's Poetry (book in progress).
"Stanford's Chaucer Portrait" (article in progress).
co-authored MS, God Letters, with Louise Schleiner, 150 pp. on feminist spirituality.
"Dinosaurs and Dynamos: Transforming the Classroom in the Digital Age," Keynote speech, Teaching and Technology Workshop, WSU, July, 1995; Leadership Conference, WSU, September, 1995; Rocky Mountain Chemistry Chairs' Conference, September, 1995; WSU Faculty Senate, October 1995.
"Medicine, Gender, and Sexuality," opening presentation for panel at New Chaucer Society Biennial International Conference, Dublin, July 27, 1994.
"Teaching Chaucer Electronically," ADE Seminar, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, July 8, 1994 (invited).
"From Print to E-Media: A Case History," Society for Scholarly Publishing, San Francisco, June 9, 1994 (invited).
"Changing Lives: Three Centuries of Drama in an English Town," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, May 12-15, 1994 (invited keynote speech).
"Women, Work, and Plays in an English Medieval Town," keynote speech for WSU graduate student conference, April 22, 1994.
"Chaucer in 2001," for WSU Math/English/Honors Competition, April 7, 1994.
"Women, Work, and Plays in an English Medieval Town," talk for WSU Women's Month, March 31, 1994 (invited).
"Medicine and the Chivalric Body in the Knight's Tale," Symposium on Medieval Medicine, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ohio State University, February 23-25, 1994 (invited).
"Chaucer in 2001," for Association of Research Libraries, "Scholarly Publishing on the Electronic Networks: Gateways, Gatekeepers, and Roles in the Information Omniverse," Nov. 13-15, 1993, Washington, D.C. (invited)
"Theory and Practice of Editing Medieval Texts," Faculty Seminar, WSU English Department, October, 1993.
"Electronic Chaucer: A Humanities Image Archive," International Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, May, 1993.
"Medicine and the Chivalric Body in the Knight's Tale," Washington State University, February, 1993.
"Gender and Theatricality in the Chester Cycle," invited lecture, University of Illinois, April, 1992.
"Pearl and the Psychology of Mourning" invited lecture at Cornell University, April, 1992.
"Gender and Theatricality in the Chester Cycle" given at Stanford Colloquium on Theatricality in the Middle Ages, Dec. 6, 1991.
"Pearl and the Psychology of Mourning," delivered at Medieval Association of the Pacific, Davis, CA, March 1991.
"`Ali ibn al-`Abbas and Constantine the African on Lovesickness," paper delivered at the International Colloquium on `Ali ibn al-`Abbas and Constantine the African, The Warburg Institute, London, November 22-23, 1990.
"Medicine and Love," for Medicine and the Humanities, Stanford Medical School, February 1990.
"Reading the Lovesick Body," for the Symposium on the 'Legible Body', Emory University, October 1989.
"The Lover's Malady and Courtly Love," invited lecture, Cornell University, October 1988.
"The Social Context of the Lover's Malady," for the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, 1988.
"Our Debt to Chaucer," Distinguished Stanford Faculty Lecture Series, Palo Alto Senior Center, November, 1987.
"From Mental Faculties to Magical Philtres," read at the International Colloquium "Eros and Anteros in the Renaissance," Toronto and Ottawa, September, 1987.
"Teaching Women in Western Culture," Faculty Symposium on Western Culture, Stanford, September, 1987.
"New Directions in Medieval Studies," read at the meeting of the American Library Association, Division of College and Research Libraries, San Francisco, June 29, 1987.
"Affect in the Middle Ages: The Case of Lovesickness," Seminar in Theoretical Psychiatry, Stanford Medical School, November 14, 1986.
"Recent Beowulf Scholarship," invited lecture for NEH Summer Seminar in Medieval Literature, Stanford, July, 1986.
"Lovesickness and Illusion in the Later Middle Ages," presented to the Faculty Seminar in Medieval Studies, University of California at Berkeley, April 25, 1986.
"Pandarus, Poetry, and Healing," read at the New Chaucer Society, Philadelphia, March 20, 1986.
"The Liber de heros morbo and the Development of Courtly Love," read at the Medieval Association of the Pacific, Stanford, March 1, 1986.
"Imagination, Love, and Medicine in the Middle Ages," MLA, Washington, D.C., December, 1984.
"New Medieval Medical Texts on Amor hereos," International Symposium of the MediŠvistenverband, Tźbingen, West Germany, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 1984.
"Is Love Curable by Herbs?" 19th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May, 1984.
"An Old English Homiletic Motif: Traditions and Contexts," Berkeley Old English Symposium, Berkeley, March, 1984.
"Lovesickness in Troilus," presented at the meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Santa Barbara, California, November, 1983.
"Chaucer's Women in Love," read before the Stanford Women's Club, San Francisco, October 6, 1983.
"Chaucer, Lovesickness, and Medieval Medicine," read at the 18th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 1983.
Colloquium in Middle High German Poetry, taught at Cornell University, April 18, 1983.
"Wolfram's Dawn Song 'Sine klawen,'" read at the meeting of the Northeastern Modern Language Association, Erie, PA, April, 1983.
"Structure as Psychology: A Reading of Thibaut de Champagne's 'Chanter m'estuet,'" presented before the International Courtly Literature Society at the MLA, Houston, December, 1980.
"The Rhetorical Structure of Tristan's Knighting," read at the Fifteenth International Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May, 1980.
"The Three Utterances and its Eschatological Context," read at the meeting of the Northeastern Modern Language Association, North Dartmouth, Mass., March, 1980.
"Teaching Chaucer," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, May 12-15, 1994 (invited practicum for high school teachers).
"Wife of Bath's Tale" and "Electronic Chaucer" for Chaucer in the Secondary Schools, University of New Mexico, 22 Oct. 1993. (invited; day-long workshop).
Semester/ Year Number and Title Credits Enrollment
Spring 1994 Engl. 555, Chaucer 3 4
Spring 1995 Hum. 338, Arthurian 3 13
Themes
Spring 1996 Honors 460 Multimedia Middle Ages
Thesis Committees at WSU:
JoAnn Knowles Ph.D. 1995
Exam Committees at WSU:
Jean Brunsdale M.A. 1994
JoAnn Knowles Ph.D. 1994
Thesis Committees at Stanford: Susan Aronstein, Thomas Moser, Jr., Steven Kruger, Nancy Coiner, Mary McDevitt, Robert Watson, Carolyn Anderson, Roger Smith, J. M. Massi, Michael Jones, David Fussner.