Mary Dockray-Miller (born 1965) is an American scholar of early medieval England and women’s educational history, best known for her work on gender in the pre-Conquest period. She has published on female saints, on Beowulf, and on religious women.[1][2] She was professor of English at Lesley University, where taught from 2000-2024 before being laid off as part of a restructuring process that eliminated 30 faculty jobs, most in the traditional liberal arts and sciences.
Dockray-Miller's first monograph was Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England (St. Martin's Press, 2000), which utilized postmodern gender theory (the work of Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, and others) to reinvestigate historical elements, such as double houses and early English religious women, and literature, including Beowulf. At the time, it was "the first and only monograph on motherhood to appear in Anglo-Saxon studies".[3]]She edited the Wilton Chronicle in Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience (Brepols, 2009) and published a biography of Judith of Flanders (c.1031-1094) in 2015. She has published numerous articles in medieval studies, English studies, and gender studies journals; she is a contributor to the Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States (Greenwood, 1998), the Dictionary of National Biography, and other reference works
She edited the Wilton Chronicle in Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience (Brepols, 2009).[4] She has published numerous journal articles and is a contributor to the Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States (Greenwood, 1998).[5]
Publications edit
- “Margaret Atwood’s Medieval Testaments” Margaret Atwood Studies 17 (2024): 8-24[6].
"Afrisc Meowle: Exploring the Other in the Old English Exodus" PMLA 137.3, 2022, 458-471[7]. Public Medievalists, Racism, and Suffrage in the American Women's College (Palgrave, 2017)[8]. The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2015.[9] “Old English Has A Serious Image Problem” JSTOR Daily 3 May 2017[10]. Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts vol.25. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009[11]). Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England (St. Martin’s Press, 2000)[12] "Beowulf's Tears of Fatherhood," Exemplaria 10.1 (1998): 1-28[13]. "The Feminized Cross of The Dream of the Rood" Philological Quarterly 76.1 (1997): 1-18. [14]
References edit
- ^ Burns, Hilary. "Lesley University is laying off faculty members, cutting programs amid budget crunch". Boston Globe.
- ^ Levy, Marc (4 October 2023). "Lesley restructuring will cut four programs, refocusing on education, mental health, arts". Cambridge Day.
- ^ Klein, Stacy (2002). ""Rev. of Dockray-Miller, Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England"". Arthuriana. 12: 124–26. doi:10.1353/art.2002.0076. JSTOR 2903816.
- ^ Gretsch, Mechthild. "Rev. of Dockray-Miller". English Historical Review. CXXVI (518): 121–22. doi:10.1093/ehr/ceq438.
- ^ Schwartz, Paula (July–September 2002). ""Women's Studies, Gender Studies": Le contexte américain". Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire. 75 (75): 15–20. doi:10.2307/3771854. JSTOR 3771854.
- ^ Dockray-Miller, Mary (2024). ""Margaret Atwood's Medieval Testaments"". Margaret Atwood Studies. 17: 8-24.
- ^ Dockray-Miller, Mary (2022). ""Afrisc Meowle: Exploring the Other in the Old English Exodus"". PMLA. 137 (3): 458-471.
- ^ Dockray-Miller, Mary (2017). Public Medievalists, Racism, and Suffrage in the American Women's College. Palgrave. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69706-2. ISBN 978-3-319-69705-5.
- ^ Dockray-Miller, Mary (2015). The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing.
- ^ Dockray-Miller, Mart (3 May 2017). ""Old English Has A Serious Image Problem"". JSTOR Daily.
- ^ Dockray-Miller, Mary (2009). Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts vol.25. Turnhout: bREPOLS.
- ^ Dockray-Miller, Mary (2009). Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England. St. Martin's Press.
- ^ Dockray-Miller, Mary (1998). ""Beowulf's Tears of Fatherhood"". Exemplaia. 10 (1): 1-28. doi:10.1179/exm.1998.10.1.1.
- ^ Dockray-Miller, Mary (1997). ""The Feminized Cross of The Dream of the Rood"". Philological Quarterly. 76 (1): 1-18.
1. Acker, Paul (2006). "Horror and the Maternal in "Beowulf"". PMLA. 121 (3): 702–16. doi:10.1632/003081206x142832. JSTOR 25486349
2. Klein, Stacy S. (2002). "Rev. of Dockray-Miller, Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England". Arthuriana. 12 (3): 124–26. doi:10.1353/art.2002.0076. JSTOR 27870460.
External links edit
- Mary Dockray-Miller profile Lesley University website