Curriculum Vitae

Elizabeth Harper P.O. Box 322 Chapel Hill, NC 27514 919-923-2291 elizabeth.harper@gmail.com EDUCATION 2009 Department of English and Comparative Literature CB #3520, Greenlaw Hall The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Ph.D (English), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Dissertation: “Gifts and Economic Exchange in Late Medieval Religious Writing” Director: Professor Joseph Wittig M.A. (English), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Thesis: “Material and Spiritual Economies in Everyman” B.A. (English and philosophy) Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL Graduated magna cum laude 2003 2000 PUBLICATIONS 2010 2006 “Pearl in the Context of Fourteenth-Century Gift Economies,” forthcoming in The Chaucer Review 44, no. 4 (2010) “Material Economy, Spiritual Economy, and Social Critique in Everyman,” cowritten with Britt Mize, Comparative Drama 40, no. 3 (2006): 263–311. “Thomas Hoccleve Looks in the Mirror” (in preparation) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Composition and Rhetoric (first semester). An introduction to academic writing that focuses on analysis and argument. Students begin writing about the familiar subject of popular culture and progress to writing for public audiences and academic communities. (2001, 2009) Composition and Rhetoric (second semester). An introduction to academic writing across the disciplines, concentrating on the fields of public health, sociology, and film studies. Students learn how to conduct primary research, integrate secondary sources, and analyze texts. (2002-06) Composition and Rhetoric (Summer Bridge). An introduction to academic writing that focuses on analysis and argument, aimed at first-year students whose high school backgrounds may not have adequately prepared them for the demands of undergraduate study. (2009) The Ethics focusing on Malcolm X, local public of Reading. An introduction to the academic study of literature for non-majors, the moral and political effects of books. Texts included The Autobiography of Fahrenheit 451, Madame Bovary, and Northanger Abbey. Students read to children in schools as part of a service-learning requirement. (2009) Survey of British Literature, 600-1750. A required survey for English majors with special emphasis on Old English poetry, Chaucer, medieval drama, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, and Burney. (2006) Eros and Caritas. An introduction to the academic study of fiction for non-majors, organized thematically around different treatments of love. Texts included The Name of the Rose, Pride and Prejudice, Silence, and Troilus and Criseyde. (2005, 2007) TEACHING EXPERIENCE continued Elizabeth Harper 2 Chaucer. A survey of Chaucer’s major works, including The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, emphasizing historical, cultural, and intellectual background with special attention to literary genre and influence. One summer session of individualized instruction, taught as an independent tutor for a single student. (2006) Shakespeare. A required survey for English majors focusing on representative genres and works by Shakespeare, and emphasizing historical, intellectual, and cultural background of these works. Two discussion sections, taught as a teaching assistant under the direction of Jessica Wolfe. (2005) OTHER TEACHING INTERESTS Introduction to Medieval English Literature Later Middle English Writing Medieval Women Writers Literature and Poverty in the Middle Ages Arthurian Literature The Memory of the Black Death in Medieval and Early Modern England History of the English Language Ideas of the Gift The Craft of Academic Writing FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2009-10 2009 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature Frankel Fellowship, a semester-long fellowship supporting outstanding dissertation work, UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature Joseph Breen Award, an annual award given for outstanding academic achievement by a graduate student in the field of medieval literature, UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature Hunt Fellowship, a one-time grant awarded for outstanding dissertation work, UNC Department of English and Comparative Literature One-semester dissertation grant supporting research in the UNC Program for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Schallek Award, an annual grant supporting outstanding research on latemedieval Britain, Medieval Academy of America and the Richard III Society First-Year University Fellowship (year-long), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2008 2007 2006 2000.1 PAPERS June 2010 Oct 2009 “Franciscanism and Dives and Pauper,” paper proposed for the New Chaucer Society biannual meeting, Siena, Italy “Madness in the Mirror: Self-Knowledge in Thomas Hoccleve’s Series,” paper scheduled for the Southeastern Medieval Association annual meeting, Nashville, TN PAPERS continued Elizabeth Harper 3 Oct 2008 May 2008 Feb 2008 Oct 2007 May 2007 May 2005 Feb 2004 “The Book of Margery Kempe and Involuntary Poverty,” paper presented at the Southeastern Medieval Association annual meeting, St. Louis, MO “Jewels and Jewelers in Pearl,” paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI “Jewelers and Jealousy in Pearl,” paper presented at the North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Chapel Hill, NC “Possession in Pearl,” paper presented at the Southeastern Medieval Association annual meeting, Spartanburg, SC “Wealth and Value in Pearl,” paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI “Uses of the Non-Noble Family in Havelok the Dane,” paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI “Self-Knowledge and Authority in Thomas Hoccleve,” paper presented at the North Carolina Colloquium in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Chapel Hill, NC “Material and Spiritual Economies in Everyman,” paper presented at the Southeastern Medieval Association, Tallahassee, FL Sept 2003 SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Feb 2009 July 2008 May 2008 2007, 2008 2006, 2008 2005–07 Aug 2006 Informal organizer promoting child care fee referendum in student elections. Informal advocate for graduate students employed in the Department of Housing. Organizer and moderator of sponsored session, “Economy and Exchange in the Later Middle Ages,” at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI. Presider, sessions at the North Carolina Colloquium, an annual graduate medieval and early modern conference held jointly by UNC and Duke University. Assistant organizer of the North Carolina Colloquium including putting together panels and assisting with housing for attendees. Graduate representative to the UNC Medieval Studies Committee. Fellow at the Future Faculty Seminar, a program preparing graduate students for professional academic work, sponsored by the UNC Center for Teaching and Learning. Participant in the Mellon Doctoral Summer Seminar, co-sponsored by the UNC English department. Member of Crux, an interdisciplinary writing group at UNC and Duke. June 2006 2005–06 2004–2006 Chair, Carolina Association for Medieval Studies (CAMS), a student organization. SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES continued 2004–2005 Organizer of Bring It Home university-wide lecture for CAMS. Elizabeth Harper 4 2002–2004 Feb 2003 2001–2003 July 2001 Clerk, CAMS. Panelist, round table discussion of J.R. R. Tolkien sponsored by CAMS. Executive board of FOCUS, a graduate student service organization (president 2002–2003). Organizer and host of a historical banquet for CAMS public outreach project. OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE 2007–2009 Community manager, Department of Housing and Residential Education. Managed offices and undergraduate workers as a live-in staff person with the Division of Student Affairs. Editor of oral history transcriptions for the Southern Oral History Project, University of North Carolina. Turned transcriptions of oral history interviews into standard written prose for the use of historians and other scholars. 2006, 2007 2001.2004 Editorial intern, Studies in Philology. Copyedited and proofread articles, and kept records for the academic journal Studies in Philology. Assistant to the Communications Writer at the Graduate School. Researched alumni and wrote articles about their professional activities for Graduate School publications sent to alumni and donors. Research assistant, English Department, University of North Carolina. Assisted with images at the online William Blake Archive, checked an edition against the text of the original Latin manuscript, helped faculty prepare books for publication. 2003, 2004 2000.2001 AFFILIATIONS Modern Languages Association Medieval Academy of America Southeastern Medieval Association Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship New Chaucer Society Piers Plowman Society LANGUAGES English (native language) French (high proficiency) Old English (competence) Latin (competence) REFERENCES Elizabeth Harper 5 Professor Joseph Wittig (dissertation director) Department of English and Comparative Literature CB #3520, Greenlaw Hall The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 962-4050 wittig@unc.edu Professor Edward Kennedy Department of English and Comparative Literature CB #3520, Greenlaw Hall The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 962-4054 ekennedy@email.unc.edu Professor Jessica Wolfe Department of English and Comparative Literature CB #3520, Greenlaw Hall The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599 (919) 962-9895 jlwolfe@email.unc.edu