Margaret P. Hannay Professor of English Literature Siena College Loudonville, NY Publications Books Correspondence of Rowland Whyte and Robert Sidney, First Earl of Leicester. Edited with Noel J. Kinnamon and Michael G. Brennan (in progress). Correspondence of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester. Edited with Noel J. Kinnamon and Michael G. Brennan. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate (in press). Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate (in press). The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Philip and Mary Sidney. Edited with Hannibal Hamlin, Noel J. Kinnamon, and Michael G. Brennan. Oxford: Oxford World Classics, 2009. Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Editor and Introduction. Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700. Vol. 2. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009.C.S. Lewis: A Map of His Worlds. Reprint. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2009. Domestic Politics and Family Absence: The Correspondence (1588-1621) of Robert Sidney, first Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester. Edited with Noel J. Kinnamon and Michael G. Brennan. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. Selected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke. Edited with Noel J. Kinnamon and Michael G. Brennan. Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 2005. Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Edited with Susanne Woods. NY: MLA Press, 2000. The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke. Edited with Noel J. Kinnamon and Michael G. Brennan. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1998. Philip's Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. New York: Oxford UP, 1990. Silent but for the Word: Tudor Women as Patrons, Translators and Writers of Religious Works. Editor. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1985. C. S. Lewis. New York: Frederick Ungar
Publishing Co., 1981. As Her Whimsey Took Her: Critical Essays on Dorothy L. Sayers. Editor. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1979. (Nominated for an Edgar Award 1980)
Book Chapters “‘Your Vertuous and Learned Aunt’: The Countess of Pembroke as a Mentor to Mary Wroth,” rpt. Mary Wroth, ed. Clare Kinney. Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700, Vol. 5. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 388-408. “Mary Sidney’s Other Brothers.” Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World: Sisters, Brothers and Others. Ed. Naomi J. Miller and Naomi Yavneh. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. 89-103. “Joining the Conversation: David, Astrophil, and the Countess of Pembroke.” Textual Conversations in the Renaissance: Ethics, Authors, and Technologies. Ed. Zachary Lesser and Benedict S. Robinson. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006. 113-30. “Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke,” with Michael G. Brennan, Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 206-10. “Robert Sidney, the Dudleys, and Queen Elizabeth,” with Michael G. Brennan and Noel J. Kinnamon. Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman. Ed. Carole Levin, Jo Eldridge Carney, and Debra Barrett-Graves. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. 20-42. “Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.” New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. 26:708-12. “Renaissance Englishwomen and the Literary Career,” with Susanne Woods, Elaine Beilin and Anne Shaver. European Literary Careers: Classical, Medieval, Renaissance. Ed. Patrick Cheney and Fred de Armas. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003. 302-24. “Mary Sidney and Scribal Publication.” Women’s Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550-1800. Ed. George Justice and Nathan Tinker. Cambridge UP, 2002. 17-49. Rpt. of “'Bearing the livery of your name': the Countess of Pembroke's Agency in Print and Scribal Publication.” Sidney Journal 18 (2000): 1-34. “So may I with the Psalmist truly say': Early Modern Englishwomen's Psalm Discourse.” Write or Be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints. Ed. Barbara Smith and Ursula Appelt. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001. 105-34. “Mary Sidney.” Tudor Encyclopedia. Ed. Arthur F. Kinney, et al. New York: Garland Publishing, 2001. 646-48. “Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke.” Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Ed. Susanne Woods and Margaret Hannay. NY: MLA Press, 2000. 135-44. “Lady Mary Wroth,” with Josephine A. Roberts. Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Ed. Susanne Woods and Margaret Hannay. NY: MLA Press, 2000. 145-54. “Incorporating Women Writers into the Survey course: Mary Sidney's Psalm 73 and Astrophil and Stella 5.” Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry. Ed. Patrick Cheney and Anne Lake Prescott. New York: MLA, 2000. 133-38. “'When riches growes': Class Perspective in the Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes.” Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain. Ed. Mary Burke, Jane Donawerth, Linda L. Dove, and Karen Nelson. Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 2000. 77-97. “The Countess of Pembroke as a Spenserian Poet.” Pilgrimage for Love: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of Josephine A. Roberts. Ed. Sigrid M. King. Tempe, Arizona: RETS/ MRTS, 1999. 41-62. “Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke.” Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Ed. Paul F. Grendler, et al. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 1999. 6:19-20. “'How I these studies prize': The Countess of Pembroke and Elizabethan Science.” Women, Medicine and Science 1500-1700. Ed. Lynette Hunter and Sarah Hutton. Phoenix Mill, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1997. 108-121. “Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Sixteenth-Century British Nondramatic Writers. Ed. David Richardson. Third Series. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1996. 167: 184-93. “'O Daughter Heare': Reconstructing the Lives of Aristocratic Englishwomen.” Attending to Women in the Renaissance. Ed. Betty Travitsky and Adele Seeff. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994. 35-63. “'The Trial of True Curtesie': Teaching Book VI as Pastoral Romance.” Approaches to Teaching Spenser's Faerie Queene. Ed. David Lee Miller and Alexander Dunlop. New York: MLA, 1994. 172-80. “Mary Magdalene.” Dictionary of the Bible and the Biblical Tradition in English Literature. Ed. David Jeffrey. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1992. 27-29. “'Your vertuous and learned Aunt': the Countess of Pembroke as a Mentor to Lady Wroth.” Reading Mary Wroth: Representing Alternatives in Early Modern England. Ed. Naomi Miller and Gary Waller. Knoxville: University of Tennessee P, 1991. 15-34. “'This Moses and this Miriam': The Countess of Pembroke's Role in the Legend of Sir Philip Sidney.” Sir Philip Sidney's Achievements. Ed. M. J. B. Allen, Dominic Baker-Smith, and Arthur F. Kinney. New York: AMS Press, 1990. 217-226. “Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke” and “Mary, Lady Wroth.” British Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide. Ed. Janet Todd. New York: Continuum, 1989. 532-35; 740-43. “Dorothy L. Sayers,” “Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke,” and “Lady Wroth.” An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Ed. Paul and June Schleuter. New York: Garland Press, 1988. “Provocative Generalizations: The Allegory of Love in Retrospect.” Taste of the Pineapple: C. S. Lewis as Literary Critic. Ed. Bruce Edwards. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green Popular Press, 1988. 58‑78. “Mary Wroth.” Women Writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Katharina Wilson. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987. 548‑65. “'Do What Men May Sing': Mary Sidney and the Tradition of Admonitory Dedication.” Silent but for the Word. 149‑65. “'Psalms Done into Metre': the Common Measure Psalms of John Milton and of the Bay Colony.” Ringing the Bell Backward: The Proceedings of the First International Milton Symposium. Ed. Ronald G. Shafer. Indiana, PA: Indiana University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. 91‑104. Also appeared in Christianity and Literature 23 (Spring 1983): 19-30. “Harriet's Influence on the Characterization of Lord Peter Wimsey.” As Her Whimsey Took Her. 36-50. “Preface to Perelandra.” Longing for a Form. Ed. Peter Schakel. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1977. 120‑40.
Selected Articles “‘Faire Designe’: Lady Mary Wroth’s Son William Herbert.” Sidney Journal 26 (2008): 1-16. “‘High Housewifery': The Duties and Letters of Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester,” Early Modern Women: An Interdisplinary Journal 1 (2006): 7-36. “Re-revealing the Psalms: The Countess of Pembroke and Her Early Modern Readers,” Sidney Journal 23 (2005/6): 19-36. “‘My Daughter Wroth’: Lady Mary Wroth in the Correspondence of Robert Sidney, first Earl of Leicester,” Sidney Journal 22 (2004) [2006]: 47-72. “Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's Meditation on the Countess of Pembroke's Discourse.” English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 9 (2000): 114-28. “'Bearing the livery of your name': the Countess of Pembroke's Agency in Print and Scribal Publication.” Sidney Journal 18 (2000): 1-34. “Constructing a City of Ladies.” Shakespeare Studies 25 (1997): 76-87. “'House-confined maids': The Presentation of Woman's Role in the Psalmes of the Countess of Pembroke.” English Literary Renaissance 24 (1994): 44-71. “'Unlock my lipps': the Miserere mei Deus of Anne Vaughan Lok and Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.” Privileging Gender in Early Modern England. Ed. Jean R. Brink. Sixteenth-Century Essays and Studies 23 (1993): 19-36. “'Strengthning the walles of. . .Ierusalem': Anne Vaughan Lok's Dedication to the Countess of Warwick.” American Notes and Queries (1992): 71-75. “'Wisdome the wordes': Psalm Translation and Elizabethan Women's Spirituality.” Religion and Literature 23 (1991): 65-82. “'My Sheep are Thoughts': Self-Reflexive Pastoral in The Faerie Queene VI and the New Arcadia.” Spenser Studies 9 (1991): 137-59. “'Princes You as Men Must Die': Genevan Advice to Monarchs in the Psalms of Mary Sidney.” English Literary Renaissance 19 (Winter 1989): 22-41. “Unpublished Letters of Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke.” Spenser Studies 6 (1987): 165‑89. “Provocative Generalizations: The Allegory of Love in Retrospect.” Seven 7 (1986): 41-60. “'Through the World Like a Flame': The Christology of Dorothy L. Sayers.” Vox Benedictina 2 (April 1985): 148‑66. “'Faining Notable Images of Vertue': Sidney's New Arcadia as Legenda Sanctorum.” University of Hartford Studies in Literature 16 (Spring 1984): 80‑92. “Spenser at Kalamazoo, 1984.” Spenser Newsletter 15 (Spring/Summer 1984): 46‑52. “Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney: A Preliminary Report.” Sidney Newsletter 4 (Fall/Winter 1983): 13. “Spenser at Kalamazoo, 1983.” Spenser Newsletter 14 (Summer 1983): 48‑54. “Morgan, Marabel.” in American Women Writers. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1981. 220‑21. “Head versus Heart: The Problem of the Intellectual Woman in Gaudy Night.” Mythlore 6 (Summer 1979): 33‑45. “Love in an Irrational World: The Novels of Madeleine L'Engle.” free indeed 2 (June/July 1979): 6‑11. (with Agnes Scopp) “I Never Thought I Would Be Old.” free indeed 1 (October 1978): 14‑16. “Harriet's Influence on the Characterization of Lord Peter Wimsey.” Sayers Review 2 (June 1978): 1‑16. “Introducing C.S. Lewis.” free indeed‑1 (July 1978): 26‑30. “Dorothy L. Sayers: What Do Women Want?” free indeed 1 (March 1978): 13‑14. “'Surprised by Joy': C.S. Lewis' Changing Attitudes Toward Women.” Mythlore 4 (September 1976): 15‑20. “Milton's Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures.” Christian Scholar's Review 5 (Fall 1976): 339‑49. “C.S. Lewis: Mere Misogyny?” Daughters of Sarah I, 6 (September 1975): 1‑4. “The C.S. Lewis Collection at Wheaton College.” Mythlore 4 (Winter 1972): 20. “The Son.” Newsletter of the Conference on Christianity and Literature 20 (Spring 1971): 25. “Orual: The Search for Justice.” Mythlore 2 (Winter 1971): 5‑7. “Arthurian and Cosmic Myth in That Hideous Strength.” Mythlore 2 (Spring 1970): 7‑10. “The Mythology of Perelandra.” Tolkien Journal/Mythlore 2 (Winter 1970): 14‑18. “The Mythology of Out of the Silent Planet.” Mythlore 1 (October 1969): 11‑15. “C.S. Lewis' Theory of Mythology.” Mythlore 1 (January 1969): 14‑15.
Grants and awards Josepine A Roberts Award (Honorable Mention), 2005, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, awarded for Domestic Politics and Family Absence: The Correspondence (1588-1621) of Robert Sidney, first Earl of Leicester, and Barbara Gamage Sidney, Countess of Leicester. Edited with Noel J. Kinnamon and Michael G. Brennan. Aldershot, Hants and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005. Raymond C. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Siena College, 2002. Gerald J. Rubio Award from the Sidney Journal, 2002. Collaborative Project Award (Honorable Mention), Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, 2001, for Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers. Edited with Susanne Woods. NY: MLA Press, 2000. Founders' Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, 2000. Josephine A. Roberts Edition Award, 1999, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, awarded for The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke. Edited with Noel J. Kinnamon and Michael G. Brennan. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Dan S. Collins Lecturer, 1998, English Literary Renaissance, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Short-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Spring 1998. Texts and Editions Grant, NEH Division of Research Programs, 1991-93. Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Huntington Library, Spring 1992. NEH Grant in Aid of Attendance, “Court and Culture during the Reign of Elizabeth I: The Last Decade,” Folger Library, 4-5 October 1991. NEH Fellowship for College Teachers, July 1986-June 1987. NEH Summer Fellowship, 1986.
Presented Papers “The Next Twelve Years,” plenary panel, “Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men,” U Maryland, 11 November 2006. “The Sidney Children,” read at workshop on childhood, “Attending to Early Modern Women—and Men,” U Maryland, 11 November 2006. “The News on Mary Sidney,” read Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 5 May 2006. “Shadowing Sir Robert Wroth in Urania,” read at Renaissance Society of America conference, San Francisco, 24 March 2006. “Writing Themselves: Women of the Sidney Circle,” read at Sixteenth Century Studies and Conference, Atlanta, GA, 20 October 2005. “The Missing Letters of Barbara Gamage Sidney,” read at the Renaissance Society of American joint conference with the Society for Renaissance Studies, United Kingdom, in Cambridge, England, 7 April 2005. “Sleuthing in the Archives: The Case of the Three Mary Sidneys,” read at MLA, Philadelphia, 28 December 2005. “‘My Daughter Wroth’: Lady Mary Wroth in the Correspondence of Robert Sidney,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, 28 October 2004. “Women of Power: Elizabeth I Then and Now,” workshop presentation with Carole Levin and Georgianna Ziegler, Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities, U Maryland, 7 October 2003. “‘Play the good housewife’: The Instructions of Robert Sidney, First Earl of Leicester, to His Wife Barbara Gamage Sidney,” read at “Textures of Life at Penshurst Place, Kent, 1552-1743,” Penshurst Place, 7 July 2003. “The ‘Joy and Art’ of David’s Meters: Mary Sidney and the Psalms,” Plenary Lecture, Barnard College Conference on “David in Medieval and Renaissance Culture,” 7 December 2002. “Mary Sidney’s Other Brothers,” read at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, 26 October 2002. “Translation and Transformation: Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Richardson Discourse on Life and Death,” read at “The Art and Practice of Translation,” Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, 21 October 2000. “'Poets laureate crowne her': Mary Sidney and the Pageantry of Patronage,” plenary address for “Pagentry and Power,” sponsored by Convivium, Siena College, 14 October 2000. “A liverie robe to bee bestowed by thee”: the Countess of Pembroke's Circulation of the Sidneian Psalmes,” read at Renaissance Society conference, Florence, 24 March 2000. “Constructing Narratives of Early Modern Girlhood,” read at the Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis, 29 October 1999. “Literary Detection: Rediscovering the Countess of Pembroke,” read at MLA, San Francisco, 28 December 1998. “'Peerless Ladie bright': The Countess of Pembroke and Edmund Spenser,” read at Spenser Society session at MLA, San Francisco, 27 December 1998. “Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's Meditation on the Countess of Pembroke's Discourse,” read at Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Toronto, 25 October 1998. “'Bearing the liverie of your name': the Countess of Pembroke's Agency in Print and Scribal Publication,” read at Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance, CUNY Graduate Center, 30 April 1998. “'Singing a New Song': The Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes,” the 1998 Dan S. Collins Lecture, 21 April 1998, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “'My lute awake': Music and Pembroke's Psalmes,” read at Renaissance Society conference, University of Maryland, 29 March 1998. “Most wordes her owne”: Applying the Psalms,” read at Shakespeare Association of America, Cleveland, 21 March 1998. “Interdisciplinary Pedagogy: Dissolving Disciplines and Constructing Models,” a workshop conducted with Carole Levin and Susanne Woods at Attending to Early Modern Women symposium sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, 9 November 1997. “The Countess of Pembroke as a Spenserian Poet,” read at “The Faerie Queene in the World 1596-1996,” Yale University, 27 September 1996. Respondent, “Sidney III,” Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 10 May 1996. “Silentius or Silentia?” read at “The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,” Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, Arizona, 16 February 1996. “When riches growes”: Class Perspective in Pembroke's Psalmes,” read at Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 6 May 1995. Proceedings published in Sidney Newsletter and Journal 13 (1994/5): 9-19. “'The Inward Part': Pembroke's Psalm 73 and Astrophil and Stella 5,” read at MLA, San Diego, 28 December 1994. “Constructing a Public Discourse: Polemics, Portraits, and Politics,” a workshop conducted with Elaine Beilin and Alice Friedman, “Attending to Early Modern Women Symposium,” University of Maryland, 22 April 1994. “'This Gallant Ladie': the Countess of Pembroke's Laura,” read at MLA, Toronto, 29 December 1993. 'More then a woman's skill'? The Countess of Pembroke and the Hebrew Psalms,” A Debate with Theodore L. Steinberg and Anne Lake Prescott, read at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 7 May 1993. “My song might good acceptance find': The Countess of Pembroke's Literary [A]vocation,” read at Shakespeare Association of America, Atlanta, 3 April 1993. “'Who onely doth predominate my Muse': Literary Patronage and Power,” read at “Symposium on Women and the Arts in the Renaissance: Women and Power,” The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 12 March 1993. “'A Patterne and a Patronesse': Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke,” read at “Women and Patronage in Arts of the Renaissance,” Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Ohio State University, 19 February 1993. “House-confined maids': The Presentation of Woman's Role in the Psalmes of the Countess of Pembroke,” read at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 7 May 1992. “'Editing the Psalmes of the Countess of Pembroke,” read for the Friday Midday Colloquium at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 10 April 1992. “'Daunce awaie their sadnesse': the Calvinism of Anne Lok and the Countess of Pembroke,” read at Seminar on Women of the Renaissance and Reformation, Harvard University, 21 March 1991. “Literary Reconstruction: Written Texts and Social Contexts of Aristocratic Englishwomen,” read at “Attending to Women in Early Modern England,” Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, 8 November 1990. “'Your vertuous and learned Aunt': the Countess of Pembroke as a Mentor to Lady Wroth,” read at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 9 May 1990. “Biographical Re-Search,” panel discussion on Spenser Biography at International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 9 May 1990. “'Heare the poore': The Countess of Pembroke's Political Admonitions,” read at “Sidney's Sisters: The Countess of Pembroke and Lady Mary Wroth,” a Symposium at Brown University, 9 March 1990. “The Sidney Women and the Renaissance Canon,” panel discussion at Brown University, 8 March 1990. “'Sister vnto Astrofell': The Countess of Pembroke as Patron of Edmund Spenser,” read at Politics, Patronage and Literature in England, 1558-1658, University of Reading, Reading, England, 10 July 1989. “Mary Sidney and 'The Man Shakespeare,'“ read at Renaissance Society conference, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, Arizona, 14 March 1987. “This Moses and this Miriam”: The Countess of Pembroke's Role in the Legend of Sir Philip Sidney,” read at “1586 and the Creation of the Sidney Legend,” Zutphen, Holland, 3 September 1986. “My Sheep are Thoughts': Self-Conscious Fictions in The Faerie Queene VI and the New Arcadia,” read at Spenser Society Session, MLA 1985. “'Princes You as Men Must Die': the Psalms of Mary Sidney and the Genevan Community,” read at 18th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 5 May 1983. “Do What Men May Sing: Mary Sidney and the Tradition of Admonitory Dedication,” read at “Sir Philip Sidney in his history and ours,” Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, 30 September-3 October 1982. “'Psalms done into metre': The Common Measure Psalms of John Milton and of the Bay Colony,” International Milton Symposium, London, July 1981, and MLA, December 1981. “'Notable Images of Virtue': Saints' Legends and the New Arcadia,” Sixteenth International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1981. “Teaching Christian Values in the Classroom,” Panel Discussion, New York Regional Conference, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Westchester Community College, October 1980. “'Through the World Like a Flame': The Christology of Dorothy L. Sayers,” Religious Approaches to Literature Division Meeting, MLA, December 1979. (with David Hannay) “Programming and Poetry,” Grand Opening of the Academic Computer Facilities, Wheaton College (Massachusetts), February 1979. “Heart vs. Head: The Problem of the Intellectual Woman in Sayers' Gaudy Night,” Wheaton College (Illinois) Writing and Literature Conference, September 1977. “Harriet's Influence on the Characterization of Lord Peter Wimsey,” Dorothy L. Sayers Seminar, MLA, December 1976. “Perelandra as Milton Criticism,” C.S. Lewis Seminar, MLA, December 1975. “C.S. Lewis: A Male Chauvinist?” Mythcon IV, August 1975. Speaker at the C.S. Lewis Symposium, Gordon College, October 1971.
Other Conference Participation Chair, “Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts,” sponsored by RETS, Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, 10 May 2007. Respondent, Chair, “Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts II,” sponsored by RETS, Renaissance Society of America, Miami, 23 March 2007. Chair, “Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts I,” sponsored by RETS, Renaissance Society of America, Miami, 23 March 2007. Chair, “Sidney Literary Relations,” sponsored by International Sidney Society, Renaissance Society of America, Miami, 22 March 2007. Chair, “Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts,” sponsored by RETS, MLA, Philadelphia, 28 December 2006. Chair, “The Sidneys and Prose Romance,” Renaissance Society of America, San Francisco, March 2006. Chair, “Seventeenth-Century English Women and Religion,” Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, 27 Dec 2005. Chair, “The Sidneys and the Catholics, Sixteenth Century Studies and Conference, Atlanta, GA, 21 October 2005. Chair, “Early Modern Women’s Devotional Writing,” Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May 2005. Chair, “Women in Renaissance Society and Literature, Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, England, 9 April 2005. Chair, “The Sidney Psalms,” Renaissance Society of America, Cambridge, England, 7 April 2005. Chair, “Sidney’s Arcadia,” Renaissance Society of America, New York City, 12 April 2004. Chair, “Women’s Voices in Early Modern Drama,” Renaissance Society of America, New York City, 1 April 2004. Chair, “Katherine Philips,” Modern Language Association, San Diego, 27 Dec 2003. Chair, Jan Van Dorsten Lecture, Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May 2003 Chair, “Women’s Devotional Writing,” Renaissance Society Conference, Toronto, 28 March 2003. Chair, “Women’s Public Voice,” Renaissance Society Conference, Toronto, 27 March 2003. Chair, “Early Modern Women’s Reading Practices,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, 26 October 2002. Chair and organizer, “Editing Early Modern Women's Writing,” Renaissance English Text Society session, Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2002 Chair and organizer, “Editing Early Modern Women's Writing,” Renaissance English Text Society session, Scottsdale, AZ, April 2002 Chair and organizer, “Narrative Strategies in The Countess of Montgomeries Urania,” Scottsdale, AZ, April 2002 Chair and organizer, Josephine A. Roberts Forum: “Editing Early Modern Women's Writing,” Renaissance English Text Society session, MLA, New Orleans, 28 Dec 2001 Chair, “Reading and Hearing the Word of God,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Denver 26 October 2001 Chair, Third Jan van Dorsten Lecture, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May 2001 Chair and organizer, “Early Modern Women and Psalms,” Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, April 2001 Chair and organizer, “Mary Sidney: Translations, Tributes, and Triumphs,” Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, April 2001 Chair and organizer, “Theoretical Approaches to Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers,” MLA, Washington DC, 28 December 2000 “David's Harp, Women's Voices,” a workshop conducted with Linda Austern, Paula Loscocco, and Anne Prescott, at Attending to Early Modern Women symposium sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland, 11 November 2000 Chair and organizer, “Elizabeth I, Author,” MLA, Chicago, 29 December 1999 Chair and organizer, “Sidney I,” Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 8 May 1999 Respondent, “Origins of The Faerie Queene,” Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1999 Respondent, “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle,” MLA, Toronto, 29 December 1997 Panelist, “Teaching Wroth's Urania,” Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1997 Respondent, “Sidney I,” Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 1997 Chair and organizer, “Crossing the Channel: Renaissance Women and Translation,” MLA, Washington DC, 27 December 1996 Chair and respondent, Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 10 May 1996 Chair and organizer, “Canonizing Cary's Mariam,” MLA, Chicago, 30 December 1995 Respondent, “Celebrating Wroth's Urania,” Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May 1995 Panelist, “Editing Renaissance Texts,” Sidney Society, Kalamazoo, MI, 7 May 1995 Chair and organizer, “Canonizing Wroth's Urania,” MLA, San Diego, 29 December 1994 Chair and organizer, “Edmund Spenser and the Scriptural Tradition,” MLA session of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, 28 December 1991 Chair and organizer, “Images of Women,” Renaissance Society of America, Duke University, 11 April 1991 Presided at the Kathleen Williams Lectures, Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, 11 May 1991 Chair & Respondent, “Elizabeth I: Rule and Ruler,” Renaissance Society of America, Harvard University, March 1989 Chair and organizer, “Devotion and Disobedience: Renaissance Women's Approaches to God,” MLA session of the Religious Approaches to Literature Division, 29 December 1988 Chair & Respondent, “Images of Women,” Renaissance Society of America, Columbia University, March 1988 Chair and organizer, “Sidney Psalms and Sonnets,” Special Session, MLA, December 1985 Chair and organizer, “Renaissance Women and the Scriptural Tradition,” a double session sponsored by Conference on Christianity and Literature, MLA, December 1983 Respondent to Mary Jane Doherty, “Salvation History and the Logic of Time in Milton's Nativity Ode,” Second International Milton Symposium, Cambridge, England, 10 August 1983 Chair and organizer, “Images of The Divine Comedy in T.S. Eliot, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Charles Williams,” MLA, December 1979 Chair and organizer, 1977 and 1978 MLA Special Sessions on Dorothy L. Sayers
Other Professional Honors and Experience Council member, Renaissance English Text Society, 1997-99, 2000-2004, 2005-2008 Advisory Board, The Iter/MRTS Bibliography of English Women Writers, 1500-1640, 2002-present Editorial Board, Spenser Studies, 1998-present Advisory Board, Christianity and Literature, 1989-present Editorial Board, Sidney Journal, 1985-present Advisory Board, Women Writers Project, Brown University, 1989-present Editorial Board, Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies, Duquesne UP, 1992-present Nominating Committee, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 2005. Review panel for National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowships for College Teachers, British Literature, July 2004 Editorial Advisory Board of Renaissance Quarterly, 2001-2003 Divisional representative for Women and Gender, Renaissance Society of America, 2000-2003 Editorial Board, Explorations in Renaissance Culture, 1995-2000. Outside referee for promotion and/or tenure: Barnard College/ Columbia U, Carleton U; Franklin and Marshall College; St. Louis U; SUNY New Paltz; University of Arizona, Tucson; University of York; Carleton College; Calvin College Outside reader for Ph.D. dissertations: Debra Rienstra, Rutgers University, 1995; Kel Morin-Parsons, University of Ottawa, 2001 Publisher's reviewer for Ashgate Publishing, Cambridge UP, Fairleigh Dickinson Press, Johns Hopkins UP, Kent State UP, MLA Press, Oxford UP Advisory Committee, Evangelical Scholars Program, PEW Charitable Trusts, 1993-97 Referee for PMLA, English Literary Renaissance, Literature and History, Milton Studies, Christianity and Literature, Renaissance Quarterly Reviewer for NEH Division of Fellowships and Grants; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Prize Committee, The Carl S. Meyer Prize of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, 1994 Grant selection committee for PEW Foundation, 1990-91 Nominated for an “Edgar” for Best Critical/Biographical Work, Mystery Writers of America, 1980 Referee for Christian Scholar's Review, 1977-1979
Professional Societies Conference on Christianity and Literature Nominating Committee, 1995-1996 International Spenser Society Milton Society of America Modern Language Association Executive Committee for Division on the English Renaissance (Excluding Shakespeare), 2006-2011 Renaissance English Text Society Council Member, 1997-2009 Renaissance Society of America Council Member, 2000-2002 Shakespeare Society of America Sidney Society President, 2004-2006 Sidney at Kalamazoo Organizing Committee, 1995-present Society for the Study of Early Modern Women President, 2002 Spenser at Kalamazoo: International Congress on Medieval Studies Chair, 1987-89 |