ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Wabash College, Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor: 2020–present

University of South Florida

            Visiting Instructor: 2019–2020 

            Graduate Instructor: 2016–2017

Clarion University, Adjunct Instructor: 2018

Duquesne University, Adjunct Instructor: 2011–2013

Western Michigan University, Graduate Instructor: 2010–2012

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of South Florida, English Literature, 2019

            Dissertation: “Queer Authority in Old and Middle English Literature”

M.A., Western Michigan University, Medieval Studies, 2012

B.A., Duquesne University, Concentrations in English Literature and Philosophy, 2008

Certificates

Python for the Digital Humanities, Texas A&M University, 7 May 2021.

LGBTQ+ Safe Space, Campus Pride, 2021.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, 2019
            Critical Pedagogy and Digital Praxis, and Digital Mapping with Neatline.

Women’s and Gender Studies, University of South Florida, 2015.

Certified Online Educator, University of South Florida, 2015.

PUBLICATIONS

Book

Erotic Medievalisms: Medieval Pleasure Empowering Marginalized People. New York: Routledge Press, 2023.

Articles in Refereed Journals

“The Cunning Linguist of Agbabi’s ‘The Kiss,’” Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality 57.2 (2022): 110-140. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mff/vol57/iss2/6/.

"Revolting Sites," postmedieval 11.4 (2020): 416-424. https://rdcu.be/cczi5.

“A Princess of Color amid Whitewashed Medievalisms in Disney’s Sofia the First and Elena of Avalor.” Studies in Medievalism 27 (2018): 43-51.  Awarded honorable mention in the 2018 Lone Medievalist Prize for Scholarship.

“Modernity in the Middle: The Medieval Fantasy of (Coopted) Feminism in Disney’s Maleficent.” Studies in Medievalism 26 (2017): 143-159.

“Into the Embodied inneweard mod of the Old English Boethius.” Neophilologus 100.4 (2016): 649-662.

“The Chaucerian Debate of Auctorite versus Experience in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent.” The Year’s Work in Medievalism 30 (2015): 1-7.

“Medieval Universities, Postmodern Humanities, and the Feminist Center-Periphery.” Feminist Spaces 1.1 (2014): 24-26.

“Satan Surfacing: (Predetermined) Individuality in the Old English Genesis B.” Interdisciplinary Humanities 30.1 (2013): 88-100.

Book Chapter

“Entwining Temporalities in Craig Williamson’s The Complete Old English Poems.” In Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing, edited by Kevin A. Morrison and Pälvi Rantala, 65-81. New York: Routledge, 2023.

Creative Writing

“Think You Don’t Know Any Gay People?” The Gay and Lesbian Review (2021). https://glreview.org/think-you-dont-know-any-gay-people/.

“‘Man Up!’: Observing the Social Construction of Boys’ Masculinity,” Graduate Journal of Social Sciences 12 (2016): 147-151.

“Patient,” :lexicon: Duquesne’s Arts & Literature Journal 7.1 (2011): 49.

“Homorage,” :lexicon: Duquesne’s Arts & Literature Journal 6.1 (2010): 27-33.

“Queer Microtheory,” and “Rethinking Xeno: Phenomenology and Longing,” Superplus 1.3 (2010).

Reviews

“Lil Nas X’s Acid Trip from Creation to Doom,” The Gay and Lesbian Review (2021). https://glreview.org/article/lnxs-acid-trip-from-creation-to-doom/.

Jessica Barr, Willing to Know God: Dreamers and Visionaries in the Later Middle Ages (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2010), Modern Language Studies 45.2 (March 2016): 76-77.

Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, trans. Wayne A. Rebhorn (New York: Norton, 2013), Interdisciplinary Humanities 32.2 (Summer 2015): 93-96.

Maleficent, dir. Robert Stromberg (Disney, 2014), Medievally Speaking. 25 July 2014.

Frozen, dir. Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck (Disney, 2013), Medievally Speaking. 2 Feb. 2014.

Digital Humanities

Inclusive Language

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzQkw8RSfvTp-HnUqGkfIpcVar5jInULE

This three-part video series and lesson plans, made possible thanks to the Lilly Equity and Inclusion Pedagogy Fellowship, is an open-access lecture that can be used in a variety of classes, such as composition or business writing, for constructing accessible, inclusive documents that communicate with multicultural audiences.

Detective Agency of Wabash, editor,

https://sites.google.com/view/detective-agency-of-wabash/home

Constructed during the Spring of 2021 with students in ENG 180: Detective Agency of Wabash, this website includes an students’ overviews of mystery and detective genres, critical analysis, archives of true crimes, and creative writing.

Wabash Medievalists, editor, 

   https://sites.google.com/view/wabashmedievalists/home?authuser=0

Awarded First Runner Up for Best Public Engagement among the 2020 Digital Humanities Awards: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2020/results/.

Constructed during the Fall of 2020 with students in ENG 180: Medieval Magic / Modern Monsters, this website includes research projects, creative medievalisms, and reflections on the COVID-19 global pandemic in the style of Old English elegies.

“Creativity, Communication, and Compassion: Working with Students to Create Positive Outcomes amidst the COVID-19 Crisis.” The Humanities in Transition, 2020: https://medium.com/the- humanities-in-transition/creating-positive-outcomes-during-crises-such-as-covid-19- cdccc48d1c03.

Contributor for Balancing Issues of Critical Digital Pedagogies: http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/dhsi2019/

This online course introduces educators to critical pedagogy and digital praxis; the course was collaboratively constructed during the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2019.

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjtlDh909Wvv2hLhD1hCKg

Includes a recitation and translation of the opening Old English lines of Beowulf; the LGBT Research Award presentation on queering Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women; a lecture on feminist and queer approaches to literature; a video tour of the medieval studies exhibit curated for the Beaver Area Memorial Library; and a selection of lectures and in-class exercises.

 “Oral History Interview,” University of South Florida Oral History Project, 2016: https://digital-lib-usf-edu.ezproxy.lib.usf.edu//ohpi/?doi=U41-00019&packageid=SFS0060953&doi=U41-00019&packageid=SFS0060953.

 “Special Collections: LGBT Collections,” USF Libraries, 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTjMYD_mstc.

Forthcoming

“Entwining Temporalities in Craig Williamson’s The Complete Old English Poems,” in Methods of Knowing: Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past, edited by Kevin A. Morrison.

TEACHING

I have taught composition and introductions to literary genres for first-year students, as well as more advanced undergraduate courses in medieval literature and culture. I have employed digital platforms including Blackboard, Canvas, MyReviewers, Desire to Learn (D2L), Neatline, and Prezi. Syllabi are available upon request, or they may be accessed through my online Teaching Portfolio at: https://sites.google.com/view/elanjusticepavlinich-teaching/syllabi?authuser=0.

Wabash College (10 courses)

Gender Studies Capstone (GEN 490) Fall 2021.
Freshman Tutorial: Curses and Quests (FRT 101) Fall 2021.

Medieval and Renaissance Literature (ENG 215) Spring 2021.

Business and Technical Writing (ENG 411) every semester.

Medieval Magic / Modern Monsters (ENG 180), Fall 2020

Detective Agency of Wabash (ENG 180) Spring 2021.

Composition (101) Fall 2020 and 2021.

University of South Florida (6 courses)

Introduction to Literature: Fairy Tales (LIT 2000) 2 sections, Fall 2016 and Fall 2019.

Professional and Technical Writing (ENC 3250) 4 sections, Fall 2019 and Spring 2020

Composition II (ENC 1102) Fall 2019 and Spring 2020

Introduction to Literature: Strange Texts and Contexts (LIT 2000) Spring 2017.

Clarion University: West Penn Hospital School of Nursing (2 courses)

College Writing II (ENG 111), 2 sections, Fall 2018.

Duquesne University (3 Courses)

Imaginative Literature and Critical Writing (UCOR 102) Fall 2012.

Thinking and Writing Seminar (CLPR 107), 2 sections, Summer 2012.

Western Michigan University (5 Courses)

Heroes and Villains of the Middle Ages (MDVL 1450), 4 sections, Fall 2011-Spring 2012.

Online: Heroes and Villains of the Middle Ages (MDVL 1450) Spring 2012.

Invited Lectures

“The Cunning Linguist of Agbabi’s ‘The Kiss,’” for the Humanities Colloquium at Wabash College, 8 March 2020.

“Queer Theory and Pedagogies Workshop,” for Wabash College faculty, 12 October 2020.

“Feminist and Queer Approaches to Literature,” for Literary Methodology (ENG 3014), at University of South Florida, Fall 2017.

“Introduction to Old English Elegies,” “Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale Prologue and Tale,” and “Introduction to Shakespearean Sonnets,” for Survey of British Literature (ENG 3015) at University of South Florida, Spring 2016.

“Queering Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women,” for University of South Florida Library’s Special Collections, Spring 2015.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 

“Translated (Dis)Orientations in Craig Williamson’s The Complete Old English Poems.” MLA Annual Convention (Seattle, January 2020).

“Queer Contradiction: The Masculine Mother of Mind and Body in Alfred’s Boethius.” MLA Annual Convention (Chicago, January 2019). 

“Queer Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe.” 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, May 2018).

“Wisdom/Modor/Patria in Alfred’s Old English Boethius.” 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, May 2017).

“Central Cross/Anglo-Saxon Edge: Queer Orientations in Dream of the Rood.” 55th Southeastern Medieval Association (University of Tennessee, October 2016).

“No Love Lost: Chaucer’s Queer/Misogynist Narrator in Legend of Good Women.” 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, May 2016).

“Inneweard Mod and the Mind-Body Confluence in Alfred’s Old English Boethius.” 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, May 2015).

“Disney’s Gender Ideology and Claims to Medieval Auctorite in Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent.” Expanding Boundaries, Reconceptualizing Text: English Graduate Student Conference (University of South Florida, March 2015).

“Queering Consolation: Anglo-Saxon Embodiment in Alfred’s Boethius.” 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, May 2014).

“Circular Logic:  A Cognitive Map for Meditation Beyond Boethius’s Consolation.” 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, May 2012).

“Pacifying Boethius: Conscious Reduction and the Flux of Self.” 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, May 2011).

“‘Quyt’ the Knight, Queer the Squire; Chaucer's Ontology Between Contrary Kin.” Mater(ia) Familias: Family Matters (University of Pennsylvania, April 2011).

“The Void of Actuality: Conceptualism in Chaucer’s The Squire’s Tale.” 27th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium (University of Connecticut, April 2010).

AWARDS, HONORS, and FUNDING

CARA Award for Excellence in Teaching Medieval Studies presented by the Medieval Academy of America, 11 March 2022. https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/CARA_Award_Teach_Win

T.A.L.L. Award (“Think critically, Act responsibly, Lead effectively, and Live humanely”) presented by the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of Wabash College for “efforts to make Wabash College a more welcoming and vibrant community,” 2022.

Honorable Mention for Outstanding Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Field presented by the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse, 2021. https://wac.colostate.edu/community/awards/recipients-2021/#video

Lilly Equity and Inclusion Pedagogy Fellow, Wabash College, 2021.

Perkins Fund for LGBTQ+ Safe Space Training, Wabash College, 2021: $265.

Coss Faculty Development Funds for the Kenyon Review Creative Writing for Teachers Workshop, Wabash College, 2021: $875.

The Don Herring Fund for Digital Humanities training (Python), Wabash College, 2021: $750.

Byron K. Trippet funds for research and professional development, Wabash College, 2020: $2000.

Alice Hearne Award for Outstanding Doctoral Candidate, English Department at University of South Florida, 2018.

Dorothy Linton Newman Graduate Writing Award, English Department at University of South Florida, 2015 and 2017.

Knocky Parker Award for Creative Non-Fiction Writing, English Department at University of South Florida, 2017.

2nd Place in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition, University at South Florida, 28 March 2016.

USF Libraries’ LGBT Research Award, 2015.

Irving Deer Memorial Scholarship, English Department of University at South Florida, 2015.

John Iorio Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, English Department at University of South Florida, 2014.

Presidential Doctoral Fellow, University of South Florida, 2013-18.

English Department Student of the Year Scholarship, Duquesne University, 2008.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Departmental Service

Chair of the Gender Issues Committee, Wabash College, 2021-2.

LGBTQ+ Representative to the Campus Wellness Council, Wabash College, 2021.

Organizer for LGBTQ+ History Month, Wabash College, October 2020 and 2021.

Faculty Advisor to ‘shOUT: the Gay-Straight Alliance of Wabash College, 2020-present.

QueerRead: Exploring diverse LGBTQ+ narratives, organizer and presenter, Wabash College, Fall 2020.

Brother2Brother: an informal discussion about teaching and activism at the Malcolm X Institute, Wabash College, 10 September 2020.

Social Media Administrator for the Graduate Student Organization, Bricolage, of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at University of South Florida, 2015-2018.

Coordinator of Instructors for “MDVL 1450: Heroes and Villains of the Middle Ages,” for The

Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, August 2010 - April 2011.

Assistant to Dr. James Murray, Director of The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan

University, August 2010-April 2011.

Representative to the English Department Committee, Duquesne University, 2007-2008.

Field Service

Medieval Academy of America’s Advocacy Committee, 2023-2025.

Medieval Academy of America’s Plenary Planning Committee for the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, 2022-2025.

Steering Committee Member for Queerdievalists: Queer Scholars of the Middle Ages, 2018.

Mentor to undergraduate English students, University of South Florida, 2015-16.

Organizer and volunteer for “Word Up: Poetry and Open Mic” for University of South

Florida Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Student Organization, October 28, 2014.

Safe On Campus Training for LGBT Student Services of Western Michigan University,

2011-2012.

Secretary for the Otto Gründler Book Prize for the 46th International Congress on Medieval

Studies at Western Michigan University, August 2010 - May 2011.

Conference Activities

Session Organizer for “‘Ungelic is Us’: Queer Old English Elegies.” 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, May 2017).

Session Organizer for “Corporeal Consciousness: Embodiment as Means to Enlightenment.”

49th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, May 2014).

Session Organizer for “Winnowing Chaff: Constructing Morals and Contesting Universals in

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.” 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, May 2011).

Community Service

“Medieval Studies” exhibit at Beaver Area Memorial Library curator (Beaver, Pennsylvania, April-May 2018).

Black Lives Matter volunteer and organizer (Tampa, 2014-16).

Humane Society grounds keeping (Tampa, 2015).

Francis House maintenance volunteer (Tampa, 2014).

American Cancer Society Hope Lodge dinner preparation volunteer (Tampa, 2014).

Persad, Art for Change: The 25th Year of Art for AIDS event volunteer (Pittsburgh, 2013).

Weil Technology and Lincoln Elementary Schools reading and writing tutor (Pittsburgh, 2004-2005).

LANGUAGES READ

Old and Middle English

Classical and Medieval Latin

Old and Modern French

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS 

International Society for Studies of Medievalism

Modern Language Association

Medieval Academy of America

Southeastern Medieval Association

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship