English Faculty - Lauren Kiefer

English Faculty — Lauren Kiefer

Assistant Professor

Education

• Ph.D, Cornell University (1993)
• B.A., Stanford University

Teaching Areas

• Middle English
• Medieval literature
• Classical myth

Research Areas

• Middle English literature, esp. Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
• Influence of classical authors, esp. Ovid, on medieval literature

Recent Publications

• "Selections from Confessio Amantis," chap. 3 of Medieval Literature for Children, ed. Daniel Kline (New York: Routledge, 2003), 45-61.
• "War Romanticized: The Evolution of the Chivalric Ideal," in War and Its Uses: Conflict and Creativity, ed. Bruce A. Butterfield and Jurgen Kleist, Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities 6 (New York: Peter Lang, 1999) 1-36.
• "'A Good War Spoiled,' Part Two: Troy in the Late Middle Ages," in The Spoils of War: The Bright and Bitter Fruits of Human Conflict, ed. Bruce A. Butterfield and Jurgen Kleist, Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities 5 (New York: Peter Lang, 1997) 13-39.
• "My Family First: Draft-Dodging Parents in the Confessio Amantis," in Children and Family in the Middle Ages, Essays in Medieval Studies 12 (Chicago: Illinois Medieval Association, 1996) 55-68.
• Numerous conference papers on Ovid's influence on medieval literature.

Resources

• Online Medieval and Classical Library (literature)
• Medieval
  • The Labyrinth (medieval studies)
  • Internet Medieval Sourcebook (history)
• Middle English
  • The Chaucer Metapage
  • A Concise Dictionary of Middle English
  • Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)
  • Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse
  • TEAMS Middle English Texts
• Old French
  • Didactic, Historical & Latin Literature of Medieval France
• Classical
  • Internet Classics Archive (Greek and Latin literature)
  • Forum Romanum (Roman history, literature, and culture)
  • Recent Ovidian Bibliography (Latin literature)
  • Bulfinch's Mythology (myth in translation)

Faculty Website

• http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/lauren.kiefer/

Contact Lauren Kiefer

Office: Champlain Valley Hall 210
Phone: (518) 564-2417
Fax: (518) 564-2140
E-mail: kieferlk@plattsburgh.edu