Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
Notre Dame Professor of Middle English
D. Phil., University of York, U.K.
kkerby@nd.edu

Areas of Recent Teaching
· Religious literature and dissent in late medieval England
· Middle English manuscript studies
· The Canterbury Tales

Areas of Recent Research
· Censorship of visionary writing in late medieval England
· Middle English reader response and manuscript studies
· Apocalyptic thinkers and their late medieval transmission, especially Hildegard of Bingen and Joachim of Fiore

Recent Honors and Awards
· 1996, 1998, and 2000 Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in School of Historical Studies
· 1996 University of Victoria Award for Excellence in Teaching
· 1994 John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America for Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman (Cambridge University Press, 1990)

Recent Publications
· Steven Justice and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, eds. Written Work: Langland, Labour and Authorship, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997)
· Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Denise Despres, Iconography and the Professional Reader: The Politics of Book Production in the Douce Piers Plowman, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999).
· Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and Maidie Hilmo, eds., The Medieval Professional Reader at Work: Evidence from Manuscripts of Chaucer, Langland, Kempe and Gower (Victoria: English Literary Studies, 2001)
· Linda Olson and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)

Departmental Page
http://www.nd.edu/~english/Faculty-Bios.html#kerbyfulton