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Dr. Steiner: Watkins Chair in the Humanities

E. Steiner

Dr. Emily Steiner, assistant professor of English, has been appointed the M. Mark & Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities, SAS Dean Samuel Preston has announced.

Since Dr. Steiner joined the Department of English faculty in 1999, she has been active in the Penn writing community, organizing events for the Kelly Writers House, serving as a discussion leader for the Penn Reading Project, and participating in the Graduate Program in Folklore and Folklife. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on the English language, Old English literature, Chaucer, and poetry, including a team-taught course for the Pilot Curriculum devoted to the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses

She completed her B.A. with honors at Brown before earning her Ph.D. with distinction at Yale.   

Although Dr. Steiner is especially interested in studying William Langland's 14th-century poem Piers Plowman, her other research interests include literature written by followers of John Wycliffe (Lollards) during the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries; medieval drama and ritual performance; vernacular literacy and generic authority; and Jewish-Christian relations in the Middle Ages. Extensive research in these fields has earned her honors including an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Huntington Library/British Academy Fellowship for Research in England, Penn Faculty Research Fellowship, and Weiler Faculty Humanities Research Fellowship.

This past May, Dr. Steiner's book, Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature, was published by Cambridge University Press. She also recently co-edited and contributed to The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England, a collection of essays on law and literature. In addition to publishing essays in New Directions in Wycliffite Study: Heresy and Reform and Yearbook of Langland Studies, Dr. Steiner's most recent work will be included in forthcoming volumes of New Medieval Literatures and Studies in the Age of Chaucer.

 This chair was established by a 1969 bequest from Mark Watkins and his wife Esther to support a chair in the humanities.  Mr. Watkins, who earned his chemical engineering degree in 1921, was a member of Alpha Chi Sigma and Alembec Senior Society. In his professional life, he served as president of Conoflow Corporation. 

 

 


  Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 16, December 16, 2003

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