DR. JONATHAN JUILFS
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Courses to be taught 2011/2012:
ENG103 Introduction to Literature: Fiction ENG104 Introduction to Literature: Poetry ENG 341 Medieval English Literature ENG 361 Shakespeare ENG 446 Tolkien the Medievalist: Literary Critic and Fiction Writer |
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (2011), Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
Dissertation: "Creative and Daring Spaces in Speculative Theology: Literary Strategies for Doctrinal Self-Authorization in Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love and Marguerite Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls"
M.M.S. (2003), Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
M.A.R. (2001), Yale Divinity School and The Institute of Sacred Music
B.A. (1996), English Literature, University of Puget Sound
Diplome d’Etudes Françaises, Deuxième Degré (1994), Centre International d’Etudes Françaises, Université de Bourgogne
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Medieval visionary and mystical texts, especially those by women
• Medieval English and French philology and literature
• The material and hermeneutical legacy of the Bible in pre-modern Western literature
CURRENT RESEARCH
• Aspects of (biblical) literacy in late-medieval women writers such as Julian of Norwich and Marguerite Porete
• Issues of textual primacy in the surviving manuscripts of Marguerite Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls
• “Parable” and allegory as a theological, rhetorical, and pedagogical device in provocative or controversial medieval texts
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
CO-EDITED VOLUME
Something Fearful: Medievalist Scholars on the Religious Turn. Edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Jonathan Juilfs. Special Issue of Religion & Literature 42.1-2 (2011).
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Mirrors on the Wall: Which One Is Fairest of Them All?” In A Companion to Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls, edited by Robert Stauffer and Wendy R. Terry. Brill, forthcoming (2013).
“‘Reading the Bible differently’: Appropriations of Biblical Authority in an Heretical Mystical Text, Marguerite Porete’s The Mirror of Simple Souls.” In Something Fearful: Medievalist Scholars on the Religious Turn, edited by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Jonathan Juilfs. Religion & Literature 42.1-2 (2011): .
“This boke is begonne...but it is nott yett performyd”: Compilations of Julian of Norwich’s A Revelation of Love, 1413-1670.” In Women and the Divine in Literature Before 1700: Essays in Memory of Margot Louis, ed. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (Victoria: University of Victoria Department of English, 2009). 153-166.