CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Details Name

Dr Marleen Cré

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Lippelodorp 19 2890 Sint-Amands Belgium

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00 32 52 20 20 96

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[email protected]

Qualifications •

PhD: ‘Doctorat en Lettres’ (in Middle English Literature): Université de Fribourg, Switzerland, January 1997 – Defense 16 November 2001. Summa cum laude. Thesis : ‘Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse: An Analysis of British Library, MS Additional 37790 in its Religious and Literary Context’ Supervisor : Dr Denis Renevey Degree officially awarded 22 November 2006 after the thesis was published in book form by Brepols in October 2006.

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Master of Philosophy (in Middle English Literature): University of Glasgow, Scotland, January 1994 – graduation December 1997. Thesis: ‘Westminster Cathedral Treasury MS 4: A 15th Century Spiritual Compilation’ Supervisors: Mr Desmond O’Brien and Dr Jeremy J. Smith

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Additional Degree in Medieval Studies: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and University of Glasgow, Scotland (ERASMUS-exchange), October 1991 – September 1993. Summa cum laude.

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Teacher training ‘Aggregatie Hoger Secundair Onderwijs’: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, October 1989 – February 1992. Cum laude.

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Second cycle of the undergraduate course English and Dutch Literature and Linguistics, Arts Faculty: ‘Licenties Germaanse Filologie’ (English-Dutch): Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, October 1989-July 1991. Cum laude. Major: English literature (subjects including Old and Middle English Language and Middle English Literature). Minor: Literary Theory Dissertation: ‘Elizabeth Jennings’ Imaginary Museum: Readings of 30 Poems about Art’ Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Herman Servotte

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First cycle of the undergraduate course English and Dutch Literature and Linguistics, Arts Faculty: ‘Kandidaturen Germaanse Filologie’ (English-Dutch): Universitaire Faculteiten SintIgnatius Antwerpen (UFSIA), Belgium, October 1987-June 1989. Magna cum laude.

Career History •

Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Researcher (100%), University of Lausanne, English Department, 1 October 2013 – present. FNS Project: ‘Late Medieval Religiosity in England: The Evidence of Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Devotional Compilations’

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Associated Researcher, Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerpen, 2007-present.

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Teaching assistant (50%), Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep Taalkunde, 1 February 2012 – 30 September 2013. Scientific and Academic English.

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English Teacher (100%), Sint-Theresiacollege, Kapelle-op-den-Bos, 7 November 2011 – 24 December 2011.

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Lecturer ad interim (50%), Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB), Department of Languages and Literature, 18 October 2010 – 30 June 2011. American and British Culture, Academic Writing, English as a Third Language.

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Guest Lecturer (30%), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Department of Language and Literature (TALK), 1 October 2008 – 30 September 2010. English Literature.

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Lecturer ad interim (50%), Artesis Hogeschool, Department of Translating and Interpreting, 13 February 2008 – 30 October 2009. English Proficiency.

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Lecturer ad interim (40%), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Department of Language and Literature (TALK), 11 September 2007 – 31 January 2008. English Literature.

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BOF Research Fellow (University of Antwerp Research Grant), University of Antwerp, Ruusbroecgenootschap, 15 January 2004 – 30 September 2004, and 1 October 2005 – 28 February 2007. Research Project: ‘Ruusbroec’s Crossing: Communicative contexts of the Middle English Ruusbroec translations (manuscripts, vernacularity, reception, spirituality) : A Comparison of the English and the Continental Perspectives.’ Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Guido De Baere (University of Antwerp) and Dr E.A. Jones (University of Exeter).

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Teaching and Research Assistant, Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen (UFSIA), later University of Antwerp (UA), Faculty of Applied Economics, October 1993 – September 2005 (‘Mandaatassistent’ 1993-2001; ‘Doctorassistent’ 2002-2005). English Proficiency, English Grammar, Business English.

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Teaching Assistant, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Institut des Langues Vivantes, September 1991 – September 1992. English Proficiency, English Grammar, Business English.

Research Papers given (from 2010). Medieval English Research Seminar, English Faculty, University of Oxford. 18 November 2015. Paper (with Diana Denissen): ‘“Multiplicacion of many bokes”: Devotional Compilations and Religiosity in Late-Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century England'. Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Bridging the chronological, linguistic, confessional and cultural divides (1350-1570), Tours, 15 to 17 October 2015. Plenary Meeting of Cost-Action IS 1301 (New Communities of Interpretation: Contexts, Strategies and Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe). Paper: Late Medieval Devotional Compilations and their Manuscript Contexts: The Chastising of God's Children in London, British Library, MS Additional 33971 and Liverpool, University Library, MS F.4.10. 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the North of England in the Later Middle Ages' at the University of Lausanne, 7 and 8 September 2015. Paper: The Northern Roots of Liverpool, University Library, MS F. 4.10 Reform and Renewal in Late Medieval Devotional Compilations, Sessions 132, 232 and 1645 at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 6 to 9 July 2015. (organiser, chair, speaker) Paper: ‘From Source to Compilation and Surviving Manuscripts: Fragments from Aelred of Rievaulx’ Speculum Charitatis in The Chastising of God’s Children’ Emotions and Medieval Media, University of Lausanne, 19 and 20 June 2015. '"But seeth now what ioie cometh": Feelings in (the Manuscripts of) The Chastising of God's Children'. Annual Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, the University of Antwerp, South Campus, on 28 November 2014. Paper: ‘“The kalender either the table”: design and use of a database as a research tool (and more?) when researching late Middle English Devotional Compilations’. Workshop ‘Vie de saint(e)s, compilations dévotionelles et piété affective dans l’Europe médiévale (1215-1538), in the ‘Programme de spécialisation: Culture, civilisation et résurgences du Moyen Âge 2014-2015′, with as its theme ‘Saints et sainteté, entre Moyen Âge et époque moderne. Concepts, évolutions, caractères’, University of Lausanne, 21 November 2014. Paper: ‘Exemplary Saints in two Late medieval English Compilations: The Chastising of God’s Children and The Holy Boke Gratia Dei’. Doctoral Workshop on Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, the University of Geneva, 15 October 2014.

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Presentation, with Diana Denissen and Denis Renevey. My contribution: introduction of the database and ‘Compiling Strategies and Miscellaneity in The Chastising of God’s Children and The Holy Boke Gratia Dei’. Academy Colloquium: Late Medieval Manuscript Miscellanies, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, Amsterdam, 1 to 3 October 2014. Paper: ‘Compiling Strategies and Miscellaneity in The Chastising of God’s Children and The Holy Boke Gratia Dei’. Research Days in Medieval English Studies, at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, 4 April 2014. Presentation, with Diana Denissen and Denis Renevey. My contribution: ‘The Anatomy of Devotional Compilations: Thinking about Compilatio and Database Design’. Lausanne, English Department Research Series, 20 November 2014. Presentation, with Diana Denissen and Denis Renevey. My contribution: ‘Research Context and Questions of “Late Medieval Religiosity in England: The Evidence of Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Devotional Compilations’”. Workshop: ‘The Vernacular Translations of John of Rupescissa’s Vade Mecum in Tribulatione’, Vienna, 20-23 June 2012. Paper: The Short Version of John of Rupescissa’s Epitome to the Vade mecum in tribulatione in London, British Library Additional 24663 Colloquium: ‘Marguerite Porete, 1310-2010: Perspectives internationales’, Paris, 31 May – 1 June 2010. Paper: ‘The Mirror of Simple Souls in Middle English Revisited: M.N., Walter Hilton and Julian of Norwich’ Research grant Marleen Cré was a recipient of a Cost-Action IS 1301 Short-Term Scientific Mission Grant that enabled to research the manuscripts of The Chastising of God's Children and The Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God in London, Cambridge and Oxford. She was based at Oxford, as an academic visitor of the English Faculty from 1 February to 1 May 2015. Publications 1. Book Vernacular Mysticism in the Charterhouse: A Study of London, British Library, MS Additional 37790, The Medieval Translator 9 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006). 2. Chapters in Books ‘Miscellaneity and Compiling Strategies in The Chastising of God’s Children and The Holy Boke Gratia Dei,’ to be published in the proceedings of the 2014 Academy Colloquium on Late Medieval Manuscript Miscellanies, held at the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Science (submitted).

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‘Johannes de Reputissa de Fine Mundi: a translation into Middle English of the short Epitome of John of Rupescissa’s Vade mecum in tribulatione, an edition with commentary’, in The Vernacular Translations of John of Ripescissa’s Vade mecum in tribulatione, ed. Robert R.Lerner, Gian Luca Potestà and Pavlina Rychterova (Milan: Vita e Pensiero, forthcoming). ‘Hoccleve The Poet: A Miniature’, in the Festschrift for Roger Ellis (Turnhout, Brepols, forthcoming). ‘Further Thoughts on M.N.’s Middle English Translation of the Mirror of Simple Souls’, in A Companion to Marguerite Porete, ed. Robert Stauffer and Wendy R. Terry (Leiden, Brill, forthcoming). ‘The Mirror of Simple Soules’ in Middle English Revisited: The Translator and the Compiler’, in Marguerite Porete et le Miroir des simples âmes: perspectives historiques, philosophiques et littéraires, ed. Sean Field, Robert Lerner and Sylvain Piron (Paris, Vrin, 2014). ‘Take a Walk on the Safe Side : Reading the Fragments from Ruusbroec’s Die geestelike brulocht in The Chastising of God’s Children’, in De letter levend maken : Opstellen aangeboden aan Guido de Baere bij zijn zeventigste verjaardag, ed. R. Faesen, F. Hendrickx en K. Schepers, Miscellanea Neerlandica (Leuven : Peeters, 2010), pp. 233-46. ‘The Middle Dutch translation of De doctrina cordis : De bouc van der leeringhe van der herten’, in a collection of essays to accompany the edition of the Middle English Doctrine of the Hert, ed. Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2010), pp. 208-22. ‘Contexts and Comments : The Chastising of God’s Children and Marguerite Porète’s Mirour of Simple Souls in Oxford, MS Bodley 505’, in Medieval Texts in Context, ed. Graham Caie and Denis Renevey (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 122-35. ‘ “This Blessed Beholdyng”: Reading the fragments from Julian of Norwich’s A Revelation of Divine Love in London, Westminster Cathedral Treasury, MS 4’, in A Companion to Julian of Norwich, ed. E. Herbert-McAvoy (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008), pp. 116-26. ‘Through a Double Lens: The Portrayal of the Mystic in Bee Season’, in Economically Speaking: Essays in Honour of Chris Braecke, ed. K. Pelsmaekers and C. Rollo (AntwerpenApeldoorn: Garant, 2007), pp. 125-37. ‘Moving Stories: Medieval Ways of Reading and Rewriting and the Film Adaptation of A.S. Byatt’s Possession’, in Sans Everything: Essays on English Literature, Philosophy and Culture in Honour of Guido Kums and Hugo Roeffaers, ed. E. Bekers and D. Conlon (Leuven: Acco, 2004), pp. 49-61. ‘We are United with God (and God with Us?)': Adapting Ruusbroec in The Treatise of Perfection of the Sons of God and The Chastising of God’s Children’, in The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England VII, ed. E.A. Jones (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004), pp. 21-36. ‘Women in the Charterhouse ? Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love and Marguerite Porète’s Mirror of Simple Souls in British Library, MS Additional 37790’, in Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England,

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ed. Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000), pp. 43-62. ‘Authority and the Compiler in Westminster Cathedral Treasury MS 4: Writing a Text in Someone Else’s Words’, in Authority and Community in the Middle Ages, ed. Donald Mowbray, Rhiannon Purdie and Ian P. Wei (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1999), pp. 153-76. 3. Articles in Periodicals ‘“Ȝe han desired to knowe in comfort of ȝoure soule”: Female Agency in The Chastising of God’s Children’, Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures (forthcoming). ‘London, Westminster Cathedral Treasury, MS 4: An Edition of the Westminster Compilation’, Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 37:1 (2011), pp. 1-59. ‘The Literary Significance of Illness in Julian of Norwich’s A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman’, in Convergence/Divergence: The Politics of Late Medieval English Devotional and Medical Discourses, ed. Denis Renevey and Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa, Poetica 72 (Special Issue) (Tokyo: Yushodo Press, 2009), pp. 43-57. ‘Ziek van Liefde: Richard Rolles Mijn lied is een van zuchten en het Hooglied’, Schrift 204 (december 2002), pp. 190-94. 4. Reviews ‘The Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ: Exploring the Middle English Tradition, ed. I. Johnson, A. F. Westphall, Medieval Church Studies 24 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013)’, Bulletin Codicologique (forthcoming). Sermo Doctorum: Compilers, Preachers and their Audiences in the Early Medieval West, edited by Maximilian Diesenberger, Yitzhak Hen and Marianne Pollheimer. Brepols, Turnhout 2013. (Sermo, 9). Bulletin Codicologique (forthcoming). Wolfgang Riehle, The Secret Within: Hermits, Recluses, and Spiritual Outsiders in Medieval England (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014). Medium Aevum 84/3, pp. 337-338. ‘Alessandra Petrina, Monica Santini (ed.), In principio fuit interpres, Turnhout (Brepols) 2013’, Francia-Recensio (2014) http://www.perspectivia.net/content/publikationen/francia/francia-recensio/20143/MA/petrina_cre ‘David Aers: Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland and Fourteenth-Century Theology. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009)’, in The Review of English Studies 61 (2010), pp. 457-460. ‘Elizabeth Dutton: Julian of Norwich: The Influence of Late-Medieval Devotional Complations (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008)’, in The Review of English Studies 61 (2010), pp. 130-132.

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‘Daniel Wakelin: Humanism, Reading & English Literature 1430-1530 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)’, in English Studies 90/1 (2009), pp. 115-16. ‘Nicholas Love: The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, ed. Michael G. Sargent, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2005)’, in Ons Geestelijk Erf 79/1 (2008), pp. 101-3. ‘Ioannis Rusbrochii De ornatu spiritualium nuptiarium Whilhelmi Iordani interprete, ed. Kees Schepers, CCCM 207 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004)’, in Mystics Quarterly 32 (2006). ‘Paul Mommaers : The Riddle of Christian Mystical Experience : The Role of the Humanity of Jesus (Louvain : Peeters Press, 2003)’, in Ons Geestelijk Erf 77 (2003), pp. 317-18. 5. Work in Progress “Emotional Emphases? Annotating The Chastising of God’s Children in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson C 57,” in the proceedings of the June 2015 Emotions and Medieval Media workshop held at the University of Lausanne, edited by Mary C. Flannery (in progress). ‘“Goostli science”: The Chastising of God’s Children and the Carthusians of London and Sheen’, Ons Geestelijk Erf (in progress). ‘The Northern Manuscripts of The Chastising of God’s Children’, in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on The North of England in the Later Middle Ages, ed. Anita Auer and Denis Renevey, Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages (Cardiff: University of Wales Press) (in progress)

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