Kathryn Jacobs
 
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Kathryn Jacobs
Education:
1984 Ph.D. Harvard University
1981 M.A. Harvard University
Coursework at Harvard includes, but is not limited to, courses in Chaucer, the Exeter Book (OE), Early British drama, Renaissance non-dramatic literature and Shakespeare.
1979 M.A. University of Michigan
Coursework at U of M includes, but is not limited to, Old English, Beowulf, Medieval literature, Sidney & Spenser, and Shakespeare
1978 B.A. University of Michigan
Honors English Program
Magna Cum Laude
Angell Scholar
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Teaching Experience:
l993-Present Associate Professor of English, Department of Literature & Languages, Texas A&M University-Commerce, formerly East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas.
Courses Taught, Graduate: Chaucer, Medieval Studies, Beowulf, Shakespeare, Development of the Drama, Victorian and Modern Literature. Undergraduate: Medieval Canterbury, Survey of British Literature I and II, Shakespeare, Literature of the Western World, Mythology, Introduction to Literature and Composition
l992 Adjunct professor, New York University
l984-l989 Assistant Professor, Glassboro State College (later Rowan College) |
Courses taught: Renaissance and Medieval classes, such as: The Canterbury Tales, Lust and Fraud in Renaissance Drama; Paradise Lost;; The History of the English Language, and Shakespeare. Composition and literary survey courses.
l981-l982 Teaching Assistant, Harvard University
Courses taught: Expository Writing
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Books Published:
Marriage Contracts From Chaucer to the Renaissance Stage. University Press of Florida, July 2001, l92 pp.
Nominated for MLA book award March 2002.
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Teaching Awards:
NISOD Excellence Award, May, l998.
Paul W. Barrus Distinguished Faculty Award ($1,000). March 4, l999.
STAR award (a Texas A & M- C Arts & Sciences award, focusing on extra-classroom efforts), Jan. 10, 2002.
Honors Professor of the Year 2002 (chosen by the honor students of Texas A & M-C)

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Articles Published:

Early British Literature:

"Geoffrey Chaucer," "John Gower," and "Giovanni Boccaccio" all in the Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal 1300-1500. Ed. Clayton J. Drees, Greenwood Press 2001.
"Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing 5.4109-118." The Explicator 60.2 (winter, 2001).
"Extra-Marital Contracts in the Canterbury Tales." Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 6 (l999), 25-33.
"Marriage and Property in the Canterbury Tales." Mediaevalia 22.2 (l999), 245-265.
"Rewriting the Marital Contract: Adultery in the Canterbury Tales." Chaucer Review 29 (1995), 337-347.
"The Marriage Contract of the Franklin's Tale: The Remaking of Society." Chaucer Review 20 (l985), 132-143.

Secondary Interests:
"The Odyssey of Anthony Hecht, Notes on Contemporary Literature (September 2001).
"How Not to Shed Tears, and What to Do, Instead: James Merrill," The Midwest Quarterly XLII (spring, 2001), 334-345.
"Anthony Hecht's "Ghost in the Martini," Explicator 58.1 (fall, l999).
"James Merrill and the Meditative Tradition," Christianity and Literature," 45 (1996), 387-399.

Poetry Published:
"More Than an Arm" and "Puppylove," (sonnets), Candelabrum, (United Kingdom) 2002.
"Horse to Horse" and "Anthill," (poems) New Texas '98 132-134.
"Beached" (poem) Mobius: The Poetry Magazine. May, 1997.
"Spider-Web" (poem) ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum 6 (Summer 1996).
"The Weed" (poem) ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum 4 (December 1994), 37.
"Honest" and "Witness" (poems) The Poet's Pen, June 1994.
"The God Within," (poem) Eclectic Literary Forum, 2 (Winter l992), 27.

Presentations:
"Social Protests against Marital Reforms Reflected on the Renaissance Stage," Shakespeare Association of America, Session Thirteen, Quebec, Canada, April 7 2000.
"'Who was the mooste fre?' The Liberal Ideal on the Shakespearean Stage," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 7 2000.
"The Marriage Sacrament in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7, l999
"The Trailing Spouse in the Medieval Mystery Plays," Barrus Lecture, Commerce, April 26 l999.
"Liberality or Waste in Timon of Athens: Shakespeare in the Middle," Shakespeare Association of America Session One, San Francisco, California, April 1 l999.
"The Trailing Spouse: Marriage in the Mystery Cycles," SEMA Decatur, Georgia, October 1998.
"Wives, Vows, and Property in the Canterbury Tales," International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1998.
"Women as Spectators: What They Watched, and Why," Shakespeare Association of America, Session XII, March 19, 1998.
"Mate or Mother: Widows in the Canterbury Tales," SEMA Sept. 27, 1997.
"Women and Marital Property in Chaucer's England," International Congress On Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 8 1997.
"The Widow on the Renaissance Stage," Shakespeare Association of America Session VII, March 27, 1997.
"Marriage Contracts on the Renaissance Stage" South Central MLA, San Antonio, Nov 1, 1996.
"Renaissance Marriage Contracts on Stage: Unlawful Unions" Shakespeare Association of America. Session XXIII, April 11, 1996.
Shakespearean Analogies, with "Hamlet, Hoffman, and Elation on the Renaissance Stage," Shakespeare Association of America, March 24, 1995.
"And One We Feel is Ours...James Merrill," South Central Modern Language Association, Houston, Texas, October 27. 1995.
"Rewriting the Marital Contract: Adultery in the Canterbury Tales." South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans, LA, November 1994.
"This Goddess Delivers: Revenge in the Tragedy of Hoffman," Shakespeare Association of America, Albuquerque, NM, April 14, 1994.
"Selected Poems." Philological Association of Louisiana, Lake Charles, LA, March 19, 1994
Judgment in The Revenger's Tragedy, or, the Audience Beguiled," Philological Association of Louisiana, Lake Charles, LA, March 18, 1994.
"Five New Poems," Mesquite Literary Festival, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX, March 1, 1994.

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Grants and Professional Activity:
3 Texas A & M -C University Research Grants: spring l998, fall 2000, Fall 2002.
Coliphizacio. Performed in Middle English, Southeast Medieval Association, Decatur, Georgia, October 15, 1998 (first torturer).
"Chaucer-Out-Loud Workshop I," International Congress On Medieval Studies, May, l997
Chair of South-Central Modern Language Association Session Ia, October, 1996.
Secretary and Acting Chair of South-Central Modern Language Association Session Ia, October 1996.
Assistant Editor of Envoi: A Journal of Medieval Literature, January 1995-6.
Referee, Chaucer Review, March 1995.
Faculty Sponsor of Sigma Tau Delta.

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