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Mary J. Carruthers, FMAA, FBA Remarque Professor Emeritus of Literature, New York University Fellow (Quondam) of All Souls College, Oxford 2 South End Ave, apt. 5C New York, N. Y. 10280-1073 212- 243-6716 (home) OR All Souls College Oxford OX1 4AL, U. K. (tel. [0]1865-791765, home) email: [email protected] OR [email protected] Webpage link: http://english.as.nyu.edu/object/MaryJCarruthers.html EDUCATION Yale University, PhD (English), 1965. Wellesley College, BA (English), 1961; Phi Beta Kappa, Durant Scholar. University of Oxford, MA (hon.) EMPLOYMENT University of Oxford: Research Fellow (Two-Year) of All Souls College, 2007—09. George Eastman Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College, 2005-06; currently senior research affliate. New York University: Professor Emeritus, 2011--. Dean for Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Science, Jan. 2001– Jan. 2005. Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature, 2001 -- 2011. Affiliated Professorships in History and Religious Studies. Professor of English, 1991-- 2001. University of Illinois at Chicago: Associate Professor and Professor (1983), 1975 --1991. Case Western Reserve University: Assistant Professor and Associate Professor (1975), 1973-75. Smith College: Instructor and Assistant Professor (1965), l964-73. The Ohio State University: Visiting Professor, 1991. University of California at Santa Barbara: Visiting Associate Professor, 1979. PUBLICATIONS (Book reviews and miscellaneous pieces not included) Books

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The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages. Oxford-Warburg Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Rhetoric Beyond Words: delight and persuasion in the arts of the Middle Ages. Edited essays, multidisciplinary. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 78. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. The Book of Memory. Second Edition. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 70. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures (a collection of translated medieval texts, edited with Jan Ziolkowski). Material Texts series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Paperback edition, 2004. The Craft of Thought: Rhetoric, Meditation, and the Making of Images, 400-1200. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Awarded The Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America. Paperback edition. Cambridge University Press, 2000. [See also under “Translations and Reprints”] The Book of Memory (A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture). Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 10. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; 1992 pb. [See also under “Translations and Reprints”] Acts of Interpretation: The Text in its Contexts, 700-1600. Edited collection of essays, with E. D. Kirk. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books, 1982. The Search for St. Truth: A Study of Meaning in Piers Plowman. Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1973. Articles “Moving Back in Memory Studies.” History Workshop Journal 77 (spring, 2014): 1- 10 http://hwj.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/02/17/hwj.dbu007. “Virtue, intention and the mind’s eye in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde.” In C. Brewer and B. Windeatt, eds. Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature, pp. 73- 87. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013. “Intention, sensation, et mémoire dans l’esthétique médiévale.” Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 55 (2012): 367-78.

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3/21/2014 “The ‘Pictures’ of Jerusalem in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Laud Misc. 156.” In Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West, ed. Lucy Donkin and Hanna Vorholt, pp. 97121. Proceedings of the British Academy 175. Oxford University Press, 2012. “The mosque that wasn’t: a study in social memory-making.” Insights 4 (2011) University of Durham Institute for Advanced Study; https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ias/insights/Carruthers12Jan.pdf “Memory, Imagination, and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Middle Ages,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Reception History of the Bible, ed. M. Lieb, E. Mason, and J. Roberts, Oxford University Press, 2011: 214- 234. “The concept of ductus, or, journeying through a work of art.” In M. Carruthers, ed. Rhetoric Beyond Words, pp. 190- 213. Cambridge University Press, 2010. “How to make a composition: Memory-craft in antiquity and the middle ages,” in Memory: histories, theories, debates, ed. Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz, pp. 15- 29. Fordham University Press, 2010. “Thinking with images.” In Signs and Symbols. ed. John Cherry and Ann Payne. pp. 117 + 5 Plates. Harlaxton Studies XVIII. Stamford, England: Shaun Tyas, 2010. “Ars oblivionalis, ars inveniendi: the Cherub figure and the art of memory.” (Special Issue in honour of Mary Carruthers) Gesta 48/2 (2009): 1- 19. “Varietas: a word of many colours.” Poetica: Zeitschrift für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, 41, Band 2009, Heft 1–2: 11–32. “Mechanisms for the transmission of culture: the role of ‘place’ in the arts of memory.” In Translatio, the Transmission of Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. Laura Hollengreen, pp. 1- 26. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols), 2008. “Mental Images, Memory Storage, and Composition in the High Middle Ages.” Das Mittelalter 13.1 (2008): 67- 83 (special issue “Zur Bildlichkeit mittelalterlicher Texte,” ed. Haiko Wandhoff; publ. Berlin). “Sweetness.” Speculum 81 (2006): 999- 1013. “Rhetorical memoria in commentary and practice.” In Virginia Cox and John O. Ward, eds. The Rhetoric of Cicero in its Medieval and Renaissance Commentary, pp. 205- 233. Leiden: Brill, 2006.

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3/21/2014 “On affliction and reading, weeping and argument: Chaucer’s lachrymose Troilus in context,” Representations 93 (2006): 1- 21. “Sweet Jesus.” In Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk, pp. 9- 19. New York: Palgrave, 2006. “Uma arte medieval para a invenção e para a memória: a importáncia do lugar.” Remate de Males 26, no. 1 (2006): 17- 30 (Special issue on memory edited by Marcio Seligmann-Silva). Published by Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil. “Meditation,” entry for Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia ed. M. Schaus et al. Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages 12. New York: Routledge, 2006. “Allegory without the teeth: some reflections on figural language in Piers Plowman.” Yearbook of Langland Studies, 19 (2006): 1- 17. “Moving Images in the Mind’s Eye,” in The Mind’s Eye. J. Hamburger and A-M. Bouché, eds., pp. 287- 305. Princeton University Press, 2005. Review essay of Leo Treitler, With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How it was Made. Plainsong and Medieval Music, 14 (2005): 225- 234. “Le concept de ‘place’ dans les arts de la mémoire au Moyen Âge.” Symposium du Collège de France, Les Espaces de l’Homme. A. Berthoz et R. Recht, organisateurs, pp. 219- 238. Paris: Editions O. Jacob, 2005. “Our crafty science: institutional support and humanist discipline.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 265- 272. “Concepts: The Janus Face of Mnemosyne” (with Yadin Dudai). Nature 434 (31 March 2005): 567. www. nature. com/nature. “Ars inveniendi, ars memorativa: Visualization and Composition in the late Middle Ages,” in Il senso della memoria, Atti dei Convegni Lincei 195 (2003): 29- 42. Roma: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. “Les lecteurs du moyen-âge occidental et l’art de la mémoire,” in Des Alexandries II: L’art de lire. Ed. C. Jacob, pp. 221-232. Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 2003. “Late antique rhetoric, early monasticism, and the revival of school rhetoric.” In C. D. Lanham, ed. Latin Grammar and Rhetoric: Classical Theory and Medieval Practice, pp. 239257. London: Continuum Publishing Group, 2002.

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3/21/2014 “Meditations on the ‘Historical Present’ and ‘Collective Memory’ in Chaucer and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” In C. Humphrey and W. M. Ormrod, eds. Time in the Medieval World (York Medieval Seminars 1999), pp. 137-155. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2001. “The Agony of Influence,” Medieval Feminist Newsletter no. 31 (Spring 2001): 43- 47. “Liens entre l'organisation de la page et les arts de la mémoire.” (Retours vers le futur: supports anciens et moderns pour la connaissance, ed. J-G. Ganascia et J-L. LeBrave). Diogène no. 196 (Oct-Dec. 2001): 25-40. Translated as “The Art of Memory and the Art of Page Layout in the Middle Ages,” Diogenes 49 (2002): 20-30. “Rhetorical ductus, or, moving through a composition.” In M. Franko and A. Richards, eds. Acting on the Past, pp. 99-117. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press, 2000. “Rhetorische memoria und die Praxis des Erinnerns: Boncompagno da Signas Rhetorica novissima.” In J. J. Berns und W. Neuber, eds. Seelenmachinen (Ars memorativa IITagung, Wien, 1995), pp. 15-36. Vienna: Böhlau, 2000. “The Mystery of the Bedchamber: Mnemotechnic and Vision in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess.” In J. M. Hill and D. Sinnreich-Levi, eds. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne, pp. 67-87. New Jersey: Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press, 2000. “‘Micrological Aggregates’: Is The New Chaucer Society Speaking in Tongues?” SAC 21 (1999): 1-26. “Reading With Attitude: Remembering the Book.” In D. W. Frese and K. O'Brien O'Keeffe, eds. The Book and the Body, pp. 1-33. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. “‘Locus Tabernaculi’: Mémoire et lieu dans la méditation monastique.” Les Cahiers de la Villa Gillet (Lyon), cahier spécial 1996 [pub. 1997]: 7-36. "Boncompagno at the Cutting-edge of Rhetoric: Rhetorical Memoria and the Craft of Memory." The Journal of Medieval Latin 6 (1996): 44-64. "Imaginatyf, Memoria, and 'The Need for Critical Theory' in Piers Plowman Studies." The Yearbook of Langland Studies 9 (1995): 125-42. "Invention, Mnemonics, and Stylistic Ornament in Psychomachia and Pearl." In M. T. Tavormina and R F. Yeager, eds. The Endless Knot: Essays on Old and Middle English in Honour of Marie Borroff, pp. 201-13. Cambridge: D. Brewer, 1995.

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"Seeing Things: Locational Memory in Chaucer's Knight's Tale." In Robert R. Edwards, ed. Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative, pp. 93-106. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1994. "The Poet as Master Builder: Composition and Locational Memory in the Middle Ages." New Literary History 24 (1993): 881-904. "Inventional Mnemonics and the Ornaments of Style: The Case of Etymology." Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 2 (1992): 103-114. "Thomas Bradwardine: 'De Memoria Artificiali Adquirenda'" (an edition, with introduction and commentary, of the Latin text in Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum MS McClean 169, with collations from British Library MS Harley 4166). The Journal of Medieval Latin 2 (1992): 25-43. "Thomas Bradwardine and the Calculus of Memory." Mentalities/Mentalités 7:2 (1992): 39-52. "Ut Pictura Poesis: The Rhetoric of Verbal and Visual Images." Mentalities/Mentalités 7:1 (1990): 1-6. "Italy, Ars memorativa, and Fame's House." Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings Series 2 (1987): 179-188. "Clerk Jankyn at hom to bord/ With my gossib." English Language Notes, 22 (1984-5): 11-20. "Adrienne Rich's 'Sources'," River Styx 15 (Fall, 1984): 69-74. "The Lady, the Swineherd, and Chaucer's Clerk." Chaucer Review 17 (1982-3): 221-234. "The Re-Vision of the Muse: Adrienne Rich, Olga Broumas, Judy Grahn, Audre Lorde." The Hudson Review 36 (1983): 293-322. "Time, Apocalypse, and the Plot of Piers Plowman," in Acts of Interpretation, ed. Carruthers and Kirk (1982), pp. 175-188. "The Gentilesse of Chaucer's Franklin." Criticism 23 (1981): 283-300. "Imagining Women: Notes Towards a Feminist Poetic." The Massachusetts Review 20 (1979): 281-307. "The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions." PMLA 94 (1979), 209-222.

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"Letter and Gloss in the Friar's and Summoner's Tales." Journal of Narrative Technique 2 (1972): 208-214. "Fantasy in 'The Merchant's Tale'." Criticism 12 (1970): 167-179. “Piers Plowman: The Tearing of the Pardon.” Philological Quarterly 49 (1970): 8-18. “The Character of Conscience in Piers Plowman.” Studies in Philology 67 (1970): 13-30. Translations and Reprints of Published work: The Book of Memory: Kioku-jutsu to Shomotsu (translation into Japanese by Bekku Sadanori et al.). Tokyo: Kousakusha, 1997. Le livre de la mémoire, translated by Diane Meur, Paris: Macula, 2002. (French) “The Book of Memory/ El libro de la memoria.” (Spanish trans. by Dolors Udina of the Introduction to The Book of Memory), in Historia, Antropologia y Fuentes Orales 30: Memoria rerum (Barcelona, 2003): 5- 22. H. H. Wood and A. S. Byatt, eds. Memory: an Anthology, pp. 196-8, 224-5. London: Chatto and Windus, 2006. (Excerpts from chapter 3 and from Appendix C, Thomas Bradwardine, “On acquiring an artificial memory”) M. Rossington and A. Whitehead, eds. Theories of Memory: A Reader. Edinburgh University Press, 2007. (Parts of Chapter 5) The Craft of Thought: Machina memorialis, translated by Fabienne Durand-Bogaerd. Paris: Gallimard, 2002. (French) Machina memorialis, translated by Laura Iseppi. Pisa: Edizione della Normale, 2006. (Italian) A Técnica do Pensamento, translated by José Emílio Maiorino. Capinas, Brasil: Editora da Unicamp, 2011. (Portuguese) “Collective Memory and ‘Memoria Rerum’: an architecture for thinking” (chapter 1, sections 1-4), rpt. in Grasping the World: the idea of the museum, ed. Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004): 112- 128. “The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions”:

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3/21/2014 Rpt., with an “Afterword,” in Ruth Evans and Lesley Johnson, eds. Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and all her Sect, pp. 22-53. London: Routledge, 1994. Rpt. in Derek Pearsall, ed. The Late Middle Ages: A Critical Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000). “The Re-Vision of the Muse”: Rpt. in Literary Criticism: Feminism. Detroit: Gale Research Co. 2007. The Search for St. Truth: “Introduction” rpt. in Literature Criticism 1400-1800, ed. J. E. Person & J. P. Draper. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993. Editorships and Advisory Boards: Series Editor, Medieval Sources in Translation, PIMS Press (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies), Toronto. Editorial Board, Memory Studies, an interdisciplinary journal, Sage Publishing. Editorial Board, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Cambridge University Press. Editorial Board, Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies series. Advisory Board, Il Centro di Elaborazione Informatica di Testi e Immagini nella Tradizione Letteraria, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy) Advisory Board, Institute for Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University (U. K.) Advisory Board, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) WORK IN PRESS “The Sociable Text of the ‘Troilus Frontispiece’: a different mode of Textuality.” Text: English Institute Papers 2012, ed. Rita Copeland and Frances Ferguson. ELH special issue (forthcoming, 2014). ‘Terribilis, horribilis, and “the fear of God”’. In 'Truthe is the beste': A Festschrift in Honour of A.V.C. Schmidt, ed. Nicolas Jacobs and Gerald Morgan (Peter Lang, forthcoming 2014). ‘Intentio auctoris, dispositio, et ductus’, in Charmer, convaincre: La rhétorique dans l’histoire (Actes du 24e Colloque de la Villa Kérylos, à Beaulieu-sur-Mer les 4 et 5 octobre 2013), ed. Laurent Pernot, Michel Zink, et Jacques Jouanna. Cahiers de la Villa Kérylos, 25. Paris: Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Forthcoming (in French)

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3/21/2014 “Medieval notes: verbal, visual, musical.” Eikones Forum, ed. M. Nanni, forthcoming (University of Basel, Switzerland). CURRENT PROJECTS Edition of the text, from 2 manuscripts, of Walter Burley’s commentary on Aristotle’s De memoria et reminiscentia. Also a transcription, with notes and commentary, of a Latin treatise on brain functions in C. U. L. MS Gg1.1 (English, ca. 1330). Edited volume, Language in medieval Britain: networks and exchanges (Proceedings of the 30th annual Harlaxton Symposium, 2013). Stamford: Shaun Tyas, forthcoming. Faith and evidence in reading the medieval Bible. Book-length revision and extension of The Speaker’s Lectures (University of Oxford, 2012). The Rosenbach Lectures, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2017. ACADEMIC HONORS Corresponding Fellow of The British Academy (elected 2012). Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America (elected 1996). Festschrift, Inventing a Path: Studies in medieval rhetoric in honour of Mary Carruthers, ed. Laura Iseppi De Fillipis. Nottingham Medieval Studies 56 (Brepols, 2013). Gesta Special Issue in Honor of Mary Carruthers, ed. Anne D. Hedeman (48.2, 2009). The Haskins Medal for 2003, awarded by the Medieval Academy of America for “the best book in the broad field of medieval studies during the past five years” to The Craft of Thought. Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 2007—2009; continuing status. George Eastman Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, 2005-06, and Fellow of Balliol College. MA (hon.) University of Oxford, October, 2005. Senior Research Affiliate of Holywell Manor, Balliol College, 2006--. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2004-05. 1994-5, Scholar in Residence at the J. Paul Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities.

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President of the Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America, 2015-17. President of the Medieval Academy of America, 2005-06; First Vice-President, 2004-05; Second Vice-President, 2003-04. President of The New Chaucer Society, 1996-98. Distinguished Visiting Scholar, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Nov. 2013. Senior Visiting Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Oct. 2011. Professorial Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Durham University, Oct-Dec, 2010. Mellon Foundation Visiting Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2005. “Mellon State-of-the-Art Conference in Medieval Studies in Honor of Mary Carruthers”, Program in Medieval Studies at University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Sept. 2005. J. Whitney Oates Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, February 2005. Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 2002. Additional research fellowships from NEH, The American Council of Learned Societies, The British Academy, The Newberry Library, and The Henry E. Huntington Library. TALKS (plenary and named series, past 4 years only) Medieval Studies Distinguished Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 2014. Senior Visiting Scholar's Lecture, UCLA CMRS, Nov. 2013. Keynote Lecture, International Conference of the Taiwan Association for Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS), Taipei, Oct. 2013. Correspondante, ‘La Rhetorique’, Colloque Kérylos, Académie des Inscriptions et des Belles-Lettres, Beaulieu-sur-mer (France), Oct. 2013. Plenary Congress Lecturer, International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University, May 2013. Plenary Lecture, The English Institute, Harvard University, September, 2012. The Matthews Lecture, Birkbeck College, University of London, April, 2012. The Speaker’s Lectures, University of Oxford, Hilary Term, 2012 (series of 6). Keynote Speaker, Post-Graduate Conference on ‘Beauty’, Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Durham University (U.K.), June 2011. Eikones Forum Lecture, University of Basel, May 2011.

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3/21/2014 Mediaeval and Renaissance Centre Special Lecture series, University of Amsterdam, April, 2011. Keynote Speaker, Conference on ‘Imagining Jerusalem,’ Hebrew University of Jerusalem, November, 2010. Mediaeval and Renaissance Centre Lecture, University of Glasgow, November 2010. ‘Medieval Matters’ Lecturer, (Stanford Continuing Studies and Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences), Stanford University, April, 2010. Annual Mediaeval Studies Lecturer, University of St. Andrews, February 2010. Other invited talks and seminars at Oxford, Cambridge (2010); Univ. of TennesseeKnoxville (2011); The Warburg Institute-Univ. of London, CNRS-Medieval Center Poitiers (France), Columbia Univ, Univ. of Arkansas-Fayetteville (2012); London Medieval Society, Colgate University (2013); Univ. of British Columbia, (2014). UNIVERSITY SERVICE New York University: Dean for the Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Science, Jan. 2001– Jan 2005. Chair, English Department, Jan. 1999 -- Sept. 2001. Founding Director, The Center for Research in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1994 –2002 (now the Medieval and Renaissance Center, NYU). Promotion and Tenure Committee of the Faculty of Arts and Science, 1995-8, 1999-00; chair, 1997-8. Director of Graduate Studies (English), 1993-4. Member of the Advisory Committee (English), 1996-9. Service at other universities (selected only): Director of Graduate Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Department Head; University Senate; Executive Committee of the Graduate College (=University Tenure and Promotion Committee): all at UIC. Director of Graduate Studies, Case Western Reserve University.