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CURRICULUM VITAE

Regula Meyer Evitt

503 Orion Place

Colorado Springs, CO 80906

(719) 471-3469

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., English, University of Virginia, January 1992

M.A., English, Stanford University, 1982

B.A., English, Stanford University, High Honors, 1981

DISSERTATION:

“Anti-Judaism and the Medieval Prophet Plays: Exegetical Contexts for the Ordines Prophetarum,” directors: Hoyt N. Duggan and Arthur C. Kirsch

FIELDS OF INTEREST:

Medieval literature and culture, English and Continental, including: Medieval Drama, Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism, Fabliaux, Romance, Alliterative Poetry

Major Authors: Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Marie de France, The Pearl-Poet, William Shakespeare

Semiotics, Reader Response Criticism, Gender Theory, Feminist Theory

Expository Writing

LANGUAGES:

German, French, Latin, Old English, Middle English, Old French, Middle High German

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor, Department of English/Comparative Literature Program, Colorado College, 2004-present

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of English, Colorado College, 2002-2004

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of English, Colorado College, 1999-2002

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of English/Comparative Literature Program, Colorado College, 1998-99

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of English/Comparative Literature Program, Colorado College, Fall 1997

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of English/Comparative Literature Program, Colorado College, Spring 1997

Associate Professor (tenured 1994), Department of English, San Francisco State University, 1994-97

Assistant Professor, Department of English, San Francisco State University, 1989-94

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of English, Stanford University, Winter Quarter, 1995

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of English, Stanford University, Winter Quarter, 1994

RESEARCH:

Publications
Liturgical Exegetics and the Antijudaism of the Medieval Prophet Plays. [book in progress]

“Incest Disguised: Ottonian Influence at Gandersheim and Hrotsvit’s Abraham.” Comparative Drama 42 (2007): 349-69.

“Karl Young and Medieval Drama.” De Gruyter Handbook of Medieval Studies. Ed. Albrecht Classen. New York: DeGruyter, 2007. [forthcoming]

“Sir Orfeo.” Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry. Ed. Michelle Sauer. New York: Facts on File, 2007. [forthcoming]

“‘Western Wind’: New Historicism.” Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry. Ed. David Mason. New York: McGraw Hill, 2005.

“Eschatology, Millenarian Apocalypticism, and the Liturgical Anti-Judaism of the Medieval Prophet Plays.” In The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050. Ed. Richard Landes, Andrew Gow, David Van Meter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 205-30.

Cleanness, Chaucer Studio sound recording of the medieval alliterative poem Cleanness, Fall 2003, Voice of Daniel

Minding the Body: Women and Literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997. [co-authored with Monica Potkay, Associate professor, College of William and Mary]

“Undoing the Dramatic History of the Riga Ludus Prophetarum.” Comparative Drama 24 (1990/1991): 242-56.

“Musical Structure in The Second Shepherds’ Play.” Comparative Drama 22 (1988/89): 304-22.

Book Reviews/Concert Notices
“YCA Side by Side with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic—Halloween Spooktacular: An Alien Invasion.” The Colorado Springs Gazette, October 2005.

“Theatre and Feminist Aesthetics, ed. Karen Laughlin and Catherine Schuler.” Review for Comparative Drama 32 (1998).

“Hanna Scolnicov, Women’s Theatrical Space.” Review for Comparative Drama 31 (1997).

“Materializing the Body, Medieval and Modern.” Review for San Francisco Review of Books, August-October 1993.

Conference Papers
Medieval Children 1200-1500 Conference, June 2006, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, “Incest Disguised: Ottonian Influence at Gandersheim and Hrotsvit’s Abraham.”

South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 2005, “Diasporic Identity and Incest: Ben Jelloun’s L’enfant de sable as lens for Le roman de Silence.”

Thirty-eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2003: “Disguising Incest in Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s Abraham.”

Pacific Association of the Modern Language Association, Claremont Colleges, November 1998: “Chaucer, Philomela, and the Metamorphosis of Silence.”

Journée de Travail des Fabliaux, Columbia University, April 1997: “The Eucharistic Bawdy in English Fabliau.”

The Apocalyptic Year 1000, Boston University, November 1996: “’Vos inquam convenio, O Judaeis’: Eschatology, Millenarian Apocalypticism, and the Liturgical Anti-Judaism of the Medieval Prophet Plays.”

Thirty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1996: “Bulging Bounds, ‘Frely Foode’ and the Eucharistic Maternal in the Wakefield Salutation of Elizabeth.”

Journée de Travail de Marie de France, Columbia University, April 1996: “Writing from the Space of the Displaced.”

New Chaucer Society, Dublin, Ireland, July 1994: “Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Electronic Bulletin Boards in a Multicultural Classroom” (Panelist for “Teaching Chaucer's ‘Other’ Texts”).

Twenty-ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1994: “The Stooges Crucify Christ: Fabliaux, Fragmenting Laughter, and the York Crucifixion.”

Twenty-eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1993: “Dislocated Anti-Judaism in the Riga Ludus Prophetarum.”

Twenty-seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1992: “The Dramatic Jew as Mirror of Christian Ambivalence: Anti-Judaism in the Fleury De Sancto Nicholao et de quodam Iudeo.”

Renaissance Society of America, Stanford University, March 1992: “’He is inwardly flayde’: Prophecy and the Self-incriminating ‘Jew’ in the Wakefield Buffeting.”

Medieval Association of the Pacific, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Convocation, University of California at Davis, March 1991: “Prophecy and the Christian ‘Other’: Augustine's Eschatological Anti-Judaism and the Saint-Martial de Limoges Ordo Prophetarum.”

Professional Presentations/Professional Development
Fall Conference, Colorado College, August 2007: “Ways of Reading Albert Camus’ ‘The Guest,’” Faculty Presenter (with Jonathan Lee and Corinne Scheiner)

Colorado College ATS Faculty Technology Boot Camp, Colorado College, August 2007: “FlickR Journals,” Presenter (with Rebecca Tucker)

Focus on the Humanities Projects/Tools of the Disciplines (Lunch and Learn series), Colorado College, December 2006: “FlickR Journals for the Dante-Michelangelo Class,” Panelist

TEAGLE Consortium Meeting, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, October 2006, Participant

Sophomore Jump Lunch, Colorado College, October 2005, Faculty Table Host

Carleton College Q-Conference, September 2005, Participant

Writing Emphasis Course Development Seminars, Colorado College, 2004-05, Organizer

Renaissance Culture Plenary Session, Colorado College, September 2004: “Eating Your Heart Out: Dante’s Ugolino and Affective Piety”

Teaching and Learning Center First-year Faculty Retreat, Colorado College, August 2004: Humanities Division Representative and Writing Program Discussion, Presenter

First-year Experience Faculty Retreat, Colorado College, May 2004: “Assigning College Writing”

Colorado Forum, Colorado College, October 2003: “Teaching the Real Renaissance,” Presenter (with Rebecca Tucker)

Teaching and Learning Center Luncheon Series, Crown Teaching and Learning Center, Colorado College, October 2003: “Strategies for Ejournaling”

First-year Experiences Luncheon Series, Colorado College, October 2003: “Avoiding the Grading Crunch”

Teaching and Learning Center First-year Faculty Retreat, Colorado College, August 2003: Humanities Division Representative and Writing Program Discussion, Presenter

First-year Experience Faculty Retreat, Colorado College, May 2003: “Designing Successful Writing Assignments”

Writing Center Luncheon Series, Colorado College, 2001-2006, Organizer

Graduate School Information Workshop, Department of English, Colorado College, October 2002, Organizer

Teaching and Learning Center First-year Faculty Retreat, Colorado College, August 2002: Writing Program Discussion, Presenter

Student Learning Center Fact-Finding Trip, Colorado College, October 2001, Committee member/participant

Graduate School Information Workshop, Department of English, Colorado College, October 2001, Organizer

Teaching and Learning Center First-year Faculty Retreat, Colorado College, August 2001: Writing Program Discussion, Presenter

First-Year Experience Faculty Retreat, Colorado College, June 2001: Mentor-Faculty Discussion Panel, Panelist

Faculty Development Seminar: Cognitive Development, Teaching and Learning Center, Colorado College, May, 2001, Seminar participant

Colket Student Learning Center Grant Proposal, Colorado College, 2001, Co-author (with Brenda Tooley, Associate Dean)

Student Learning Center Review for Site Visits, Colorado College, 2001, Author

First-Year Experience Faculty Retreat, Colorado College, June 2000: E-journaling Discussion Panel, Discussion leader

Maymester Faculty Development Seminar, University of Colorado, Boulder, December 1999: “Teaching on the Block Plan,” Faculty panelist

Colorado College Seventeenth Century Group, Colorado College, November 1999: “Wholeness Fragmented: The York Crucifixion’s Torturers and the Disintegration of the Self”

Colorado College Seventeenth Century Group, Colorado College, March 1998: “The Literary Politics of Rape: Dante, Chaucer, and the Wife of Bath”

Colorado College Seventeenth Century Group, Colorado College, May 1997: “The Eucharistic Bawdy in English Fabliau”

Center for the Enhancement of Teaching, San Francisco State University, May 1995: “Dialogic Class Journals and the Internet”

Center for the Enhancement of Teaching, San Francisco State University, May 1994: “Chaucer in a Multi-Cultural Classroom?”

San Francisco Browning Society, November 1993: “Browning and the New Medievalism”

Center for the Enhancement of Teaching, San Francisco State University, May 1993: “Negotiating the Middle Ages”

Center for Learning in Retirement, San Francisco, CA, May 1991: “Medieval and Modern Worlds: Lyrical Bridges Between”

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

Professional Activities

Editor, Le Cygne: Journal of the International Marie de France Society, 2001-present

Executive Committee, International Marie de France Society, 2001-present

Fortieth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2005: International Marie de France Society Session, Respondent

Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Colorado College, April 2003, Co-organizer (with Carol Neel)

Twenty-seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1992: Co-organizer, Pearl-Poet Society Session, “Feminist Patristics and the Pearl-Poet”

Twenty-sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 1991: Co-organizer, Pearl-Poet Society Session, “Resolution and Independence in Pearl”

The Pearl-Poet Newsletter, Summer 1988: Contributor, “Abstracts of Publications”

College Committees and Organizations [most recent service]

Chair/Director
Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship College Liaison, May 2007-present
Faculty Director of the Writing Program, 2001-06
Chair, Student Writing Committee, 2001-06

College Committees
Comparative Literature Steering Committee, 2007-08
Writing Committee 2001-2007
Women’s Faculty Caucus, 2005-present
TEAGLE Initiative, Crown Faculty Center, 2005-present
First-Year Experience Steering Committee, 2002-06

Scholarship and Grants Committees
Thomas J. Watson Foundation Fellowship Committee, 2002-present
Sheffer Committee, 2002-present

Departmental and All-College Advising
General Advising, First- and Second-Year Advising
Advising for Majors, English Major and Comparative Literature Major
Advising for Minors, The Arts: Theory and Practice (Thematic Minor); Renaissance Studies (Minor)

Program Faculty
First-Year Experience Faculty, 2000-present
Renaissance Culture Faculty, 2003-present
Freedom and Authority Faculty, 1999-present

Faculty Reading Groups
Early Modern Reading Group, 2004-present
Freedom and Authority Reading Group, 1999-present

PROFESSIONAL OUTREACH:

Board of Trustees Presentations, Colorado College, February 2004: “Two Faces of Colorado College: Tradition and Innovation, An Academic Sampler,” Presenter

Colorado Forum, Colorado College, October 2003: “Teaching the Real Renaissance, Presenter (with Rebecca Tucker)

Daniel’s Fund Summer Program, Instructor, 2002

Teachers as Scholars Seminar professor, Colorado College, 2007-08: “Dante and Michelangelo” (with Rebecca Tucker)

Teachers as Scholars Seminar professor Colorado College, 2005-06: “Romance and Reality: Shakespeare and the Art of his Times”

Teachers as Scholars Seminar professor Colorado College, 2004-05: “Dante and Michelangelo: From Renaissance Alpha to Omega” (with Rebecca Tucker)

Teachers as Scholars Seminar professor, Colorado College, 2003-04: “Harrowing Dante’s Hell: Dante and the Poets”

Teachers as Scholars Seminar professor, Colorado College, 2002-03: “Shakespeare’s Women: Marriage and Gender in Early Modern England”

Teachers as Scholars Seminar professor, Colorado College, 2001-02: “Medieval Women, Modern Concerns: Class and Gender in Marie de France’s Lais and Heldris of Cornwall’s Roman de Silence”

Teachers as Scholars Seminar professor, Colorado College, 2000-01: “Between the Lines: Reading Shakespeare with or against the grain?”

Timberview Middle School 4th Annual Patriotic Speech Festival, Colorado Springs, CO, February 19, 2002, Judge

Rocky Mountain Poetry Contest, October 2001, Judge

Rocky Mountain Poetry Contest, May 2000, Judge

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Humanities Executive Committee Divisional Research Funds Award, Colorado College, March 2005: “Canterbury Tales on the Canterbury Trail”

Team-Taught Interdisciplinary Courses: Literature and Other Disciplines Grant, Colorado College, November 2004: “Dante and Michelangelo: Art and Influence in the Renaissance” (with Rebecca Tucker)

Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Endowment Grant, Colorado College, October 2003: Dante in Italy Course Development Grant

Blue Key Award for Outstanding Service to the Community, Colorado College, Honors Convocation 2003

NEH Summer Seminar 1992 (director, R. Howard Bloch): “The Old French Fabliaux and the Medieval Sense of the Comic”

REFERENCES:

Professor Jane Hilberry, Department of English, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Professor Barry Sarchett, Department of English, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Professor Paul Kuerbis, Director, Crown Teaching and Learning Center, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Professor Rebecca Tucker, Art Department, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Professor Corinne Scheiner, Chair, Comparative Literature Program, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Professor Judith Rice Rothschild, Foreign Languages and Literature, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

Professor Hoyt N. Duggan, Department of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA