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Louise Bishop
CURRENT RESEARCH Professor Bishop posits an important intersection between vernacular medical texts and vernacular poetry in her book, Words, Stones and Herbs: The Healing Word in Medieval and Early Modern England (Syracuse University Press, 2007), and has published on the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland. She contributed an essay on the myth of the flat earth to Misconceptions About the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2008) and on Shakespeare and Chaucer to Medieval Shakespeare in Performance (MacFarland, 2009). She is currently working on a book on the afterlife of Chaucer and Langland in the sixteenth-through nineteenth centuries
PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY Professor Bishop is a medievalist specializing in fourteenth-century Middle English poetry and prose. A member of the International Langland Society, which sponsors the Yearbook of Langland Studies, she was an invited speaker at the society's conference in 1999, and presented papers at the Society's third and fourth conferences in Birmingham, England (July 2003) and Philadelphia (May 2007). She has presented her research at biennial New Chaucer Society congresses in Dublin, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Boulder, Colorado, and New York, as well as at the International Medieval Congresses in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Leeds, England, most recently in 2008.
Besides her interest in medieval literature and membership in professional organizations such as the Medieval Association of the Pacific and the Medieval Academy, Professor Bishop professes a scholarly interest in the Renaissance and has taught a number of classes for the University of Oregon English Department, including Shakespeare classes and the survey of English literature. She also developed courses on "Inventing the Middle Ages," "The Idea of the Vernacular," and other topics such as the medieval dream vision, medieval movies, and medieval travel--pilgrimage and crusade. She has taught in Avignon, France, under the auspices of the Northwest Consortium for Studies Abroad.
In 1993 Professor Bishop was presented the university-wide Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching, and has served both on-campus and in the national sphere as an expert in the scholarship of teaching. Professor Bishop is a member of the Healing Arts research interest group housed in the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
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