Colleen Donnelly, Associate Professor

Teaching and Research Interests

Medieval Literature, especially Chaucer, Dream Vision, and texts of and about Medieval Women; Critical Theory, especially Postructural and Narrative Theory; and Stylistics; Modernist Novel, Early Christianities and Apocrypha.

Publications

Book:

1994 Linguistics for Writers, SUNNY Press.

Articles:

2009 A Choice of Form: Medieval Dream Vision, forthcoming in Medievalia.

2007 Feudal Values, Vassalage, and Fealty in The Lord of the Rings.  Mythlore Vol. 25.

2005   Menopausal Life as Imitation of Art: Margery Kempe and Lack of Sorority, Women’s Witing Vol. 12: 419-432.

2003    Blame, Silence, and Power: Perceiving Women in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Mediaevalia Vol. 24: 279-298.

2003   The Nonhomogeneous I: Desire, Pleasure and Fragmentation in Barthes' A Lover's  Discourse reprinted in Sage Masters of Modern Social Thought,.

Creative Work: 

Under Consideration:

“Circumstance” and the Temptation in the Forest: A Woman’s Version of “Young Goodman Brown.”

Apocrypha Contributions to the Development of Satan Transmitted Down into the English Late Middle Ages

The Medieval Fate of Apocrypha Stories of First Century Women–the Marys and Thecla

The Heart’s Underbelly, a poetry chapbook

In Preparation

Gendering Magic in Late Middle English Literature