JOSEPHINE
BLOOMFIELD
Department
of English
(740)
593-2838 or 2837 (740)
593-7878
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English Literature,
Master of Arts, English Literature, Dominican
Bachelor of Arts, German and History/Government,
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Graduate
Director: 2000-present
Doctoral and master’s
programs in literary history, creative writing, and rhetoric/composition; 60-70
ongoing students
Associate Professor:
1999-present
Assistant
Professor: 1993 -1999
Teaching Areas: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval English
Language and Literature; Humanities (Medieval and Renaissance); History of the
English Language; Composition
Lecturer -
1991 to 1993
Composition (Developmental to Advanced); ESL; History
of the English Language; Medieval and Renaissance Language and Literature
Associate
in English - 1985-1991
Composition (Developmental to Advanced);
Introduction to Literature; History of the English Language
Lecturer -
1979-1985
Composition (Developmental to Advanced);
Humanities (Ancient
“Hybrid Dreams: Monstrous Women in the Medieval
Dream Vision Poem,” in Translating the
Past: Essays on Medieval Literature in Honor of Marijane Osborn, Arizona
Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, forthcoming, 2006.
Review of Benjamin Withers and Jonathan Cox,
eds., Naked Before God: Uncovering the
Body in Anglo-Saxon
Review of Katherine Scarfe Beckett, Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World
(
Review of Peggy McCracken, The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: Blood, Gender, and Medieval
Literature (
“’The Doctrine of These Olde Wyse’: Commentary
on the Commentary Tradition in Chaucer’s Dream Vision Poems,” Essays in Medieval Studies 20 (2004):
125-133.
Review of Andy Orchard, A Critical Companion to Beowulf (D.S. Brewer, 2003), The Medieval Review 03.09.05 11
September, 2003. http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr
"Benevolent Authoritarianism in Klaeber's Beowulf: An Editorial Translation of
Kingship," Modern Language Quarterly
60:2 (1999): 129-159.
"Chaucer and the Polis: Piety and Desire in
the Troilus and Criseyde," Modern Philology 94:3(1997): 291-304.
"Diminished by Kindness: Frederick
Klaeber’s Rewriting of Wealhtheow," Journal
of English and Germanic Philology 93:2(1994): 183-203.
"A Test of Attribution: William Dunbar’s
‘Bewty and the Presoneir’,” English
Language Notes 30:4 (1993): 11-19.
"The Bourgeois Family in Beowulf: Frederick Klaeber and Sentimental
Kinship," Nineteenth Century
Contexts 17:1(1993): 63-81.
"Gascoigne’s Master F.J. as a Renaissance Proto-Novel: the Birth of the
Judicious Editor as Narrator," Essays
in Literature 19:2(1992):163-172.
"Recovering Henryson: An Exploration of
Obstacles in Canon Reformation," Bestia,
Journal of the American Beast Fable Society 1 (1989): 42-51.
Book Project: time for completion, two years
“Theoptics:
Light and Vision in the Medieval Dream Poem”
CONFERENCES
“New Light on the Pearl Poem: Dionysian Illumination via the Theoptics of Robert
Grosseteste,” International Congress on Medieval Studies,
“Reflected and Reflecting: Mirrors, Vision, and
the Pearl Audience,” International
Congress on Medieval Studies,
“Aristotle on the Half-Shell: Mirrors, Light,
Vision, and the Medieval
“Hybrid Dreams: Monstrous Women in the Medieval
Dream Vision Poem,” International Congress on Medieval Studies,
“’The Doctrine of These Olde Wyse’: Commentary
on the Commentary Tradition in Chaucer’s Dream Visions,” Illinois Medieval
Association,
“Dreaming Masculinities: Ideologies of Manhood
in Chaucer’s Dream Visions,” Modern Language Association of America,
“’Exorbitant Object of Paranoid Classification’:
Patristic Gender Colonization and the Dream Vision Poem,”
“The Politics of Word and Image in Chaucer:
Reading the
“Reconstituting
Authority: The Political Technology of the Female Body in Chaucer’s Dream
Vision,” International Congress on Medieval Studies,
"Shaping the Critical Conversation:
Klaeber’s Edition of Beowulf,” Modern
Language Association of America,
"The Cultural Coloring of Frederick
Klaeber's Beowulf: Analyzing the
Geography of an Editorial Stance," International Conference on Translation
and Power,
"Troilus in the Stars: Chaucer on Personal
Restraint and the Commune Profit,"
International Congress on Medieval Studies,
"Marriage, Family, and Childrearing in
Anglo-Saxon Law and Literature: Kinship Practice and the Nuclear Family,"
"Re-presenting the Text: Frederick
Klaeber's Cultural Restructuring of Context in Beowulf," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association,
"Reflections of Cultural Ideology in
Textual Editing: Frederick Klaeber and Kinship," Modern Language
Association,
"Wealhtheow through the Filter of
Nineteenth Century
"
"Diminished by Kindness: Frederick
Klaeber's Rewriting of Wealhtheow," Rocky Mountain Medieval and
Renaissance Conference,
"Gascoigne's Master F.J. as a Renaissance
Proto-Novel: The Birth of the Judicious Editor as Narrator," Pacific
Northwest Renaissance Conference,
"Pleasurable Penance: The Grassroots
Experience of Robert Henryson's Fable "The Cock and the Fox," Beast
Fable Society of
HONORS
Jeannette Grasselli Brown Teaching Award
($1000),
Provost's Teaching Award ($500),
Regents’ Fellowship,
Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award, U.C.
Davis, 1990
David Noel Miller Research Scholarship, U.C.
Davis, 1988 and 1989
ADMINISTRATIVE AND
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2005-2006 Executive Team
University Strategic
Plan.
2005-2006 Chair, Graduate Priorities
Implementation Team
University Strategic
Plan.
2005-2006 Search Committee, Nineteenth Century British Literature
Department
of English.
2005-2008 Staffing Committee
College of Arts and
Sciences.
2004-2007 Promotion and Tenure Committee
College of Arts and
Sciences.
2004-2007: Graduate Council.
Chair, Admissions Requirements
Committee
2004: Staffing
Committee, Provost’s New Faculty Initiative.
2003-2004: Presidential Search and Screening
Committee.
2003: Chair, Search Committee, English Department Administrator
2001-2006: Chair, Governance Document Committee. Department
of English, O.U.
2000-2006: Promotion
and Tenure Committee. Department of
English,
2000-2006: Chair,
Graduate Committee. Department of
English,
2000-2006; Administrative Committee.
Department of English,
2001-2002: Advisory Committee, Women’s Studies
Program.
2001-2002: Staffing
Committee, Provost’s New Faculty Initiative.
2000-2001;
Budget and Rating
Committee. Department of English,
1999-2001: Chair, Provost’s Committee on Student
Evaluation of Teaching.
1999-2000: Academic
Dean’s Review Committee, Arts and Sciences.
1999-2000: Chair,
1999-2000: College
of Arts and Sciences Staffing Advisory Committee.
1999-2000: Search
Committee, Department Chair.
1998-2001:
1998-2000:
1997-1998: Chair,
Search Committee, Associate Professor in Medieval Literature.
Department of English,
1997-2002: Honors Tutorial Committee. Department of English,
1996-2000: Creative Writing
Committee. Department of English,
1996-1999:
Faculty Senate.
Faculty Senate Finance Committee, 1997-1998;
Educational Policy/Student Affairs Committee,
1996-1997; 1998-1999
University Curriculum
Council, 1996-1997; 1998-1999
Individual
Course Committee, 1996-97
Review
Committee, 1998-99
Chair, Department of Modern Languages
Seven-Year Review
1996-1999:
Rufus Putnam Visiting
Professor Committee; Chair,
1997-1999
1996-1997: Search Committee:
Associate Professor in Fiction Writing.
1994-1997: Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on
Faculty Evaluation.
1994-1997: Budget and Rating Committee.
Department of English,
1994-1997: Administrative
Committee. Department of English,
1993-1997:
Coordinator of Graduate
and Undergraduate Placement.
Department of English,
1993-1999:
Graduate Committee. Department of English,
1993-2001: Undergraduate
Academic Advisor. Department of English,
REFERENCES
Joseph McLaughlin, Chair
Department of English,
740-593-2835
Sherrie Gradin, Director Writing Across
the Curriculum
Center for Writing Excellence
Department of English,
740-597-1857
Kenneth Daley, Chair
Department of English,