Andrea Denny-Brown, Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Columbia University

(951) 8 2 7- 5301
andrea.denny-brown@ucr.edu

RESEARCH AREAS:
Medieval literature, 12th-15th centuries; fourteenth and fifteenth-century poetry and poetics; medieval lyric; medieval epic & romance; Boethius; Chaucer; Lydgate; aesthetics and decorum, gender studies; material culture; medieval clothing, fashion, and consumption; theories of ornament; theories of practice; theories of consumption; objects and thing theory; medieval knighthood and masculinity.

Professor Denny-Brown studies the intersections of late medieval poetry and material culture, specializing in the way in which early poetic motifs and forms are influenced by material practices and philosophical notions of materiality. Her first book project, Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High and Late Medieval England (The Ohio State University Press, 2012), offers a new direction for scholarly conversations about medieval clothing and material culture by reading high and late medieval discussions about fashion, consumer culture, and materiality through the lens of late antique ontological discourses, especially the work of Boethius. She has co-edited, with Lisa H. Cooper, a volume of essays entitled Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Professor Denny-Brown's current scholarly projects include a monograph that rethinks the critical approach toward and dialogue about ornamental poetics in late medieval England, arguing that the lyric sensibility of late medieval English poets is materially rooted and phenomenologically significant, a set of practices and experiences of literary style that were understood and experienced in material terms. A second collection of articles, Arma Christi: Objects, Representation, and Devotional Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, investigates the importance of the arma Christi image cluster across periods, genres, and media.

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS:

• Resident Fellow, UC-Riverside Center for Ideas and Society, Winter 2012
• Faculty Development Award, UC-Riverside, 2011-12
• Academic Senate Fellowships, UC-Riverside, 2005-12
• Resident Fellow and Chair, UC-Riverside Center for Ideas and Society, Winter 2008
• UC Office of the President Fellowship, 2006-07
• Summer Institute in the Humanities Fellow, Venice International University, 2003-04
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, Huntington Library, 2002
• American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship, 2001-02
• Fisher Fellowship, Columbia University, 2001-02
• Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies, 2001
• North America Council on British Studies Dissertation Travel Grant, 2000
  

PUBLICATIONS:

Books

• Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High and Late Medieval England (The Ohio State University Press, 2012).
• Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century. Co-edited with Lisa H. Cooper (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
• Arma Christi: Objects, Representation, and Devotional Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Co-edited with Lisa H. Cooper (under submission).
• (Creative) 5 by Five: Five Poems by Five New York Poets. Co-written with Robert Pestka, Danielle Bizzarro, Jeff Carroll, Sarah Hannah (Trafford Publishing, 2001)

Articles & short pieces:

• "Introduction" (co-written with Lisa H. Cooper) to Arma Christi: Objects, Representation, and Devotional Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Co-edited with Lisa H. Cooper (under submission).
• "Old Habits Die Hard: Vestimentary Change in William Durandus's Rationale divinorum officiorum." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39.3 (2009) 546-570. Special issue edited by Margaret F. Rosenthal.
• "Fashioning Change: Wearing Fortune's Garments in Medieval England." Philological Quarterly 87 1-2 (Winter-Spring 2009) 9-32. Special issue edited by Kathy Lavezzo and Susan E. Phillips.
• "Lydgate's Golden Cows: Appetite and Avarice in Bycorne and Chychevache." Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century. Co-edited with Lisa H. Cooper (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). 35-56.
• "Introduction" (co-written with Lisa H. Cooper) to Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century. Co-edited with Lisa H. Cooper (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). 1-12.
• "Povre Griselda and the All-Consuming Archewyves." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 77-115.
• "Personifications Visualized as Women." In Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Ed. Margaret Schaus (New York: Routledge, 2006).
• "Introduction" to Troilus and Criseyde, by Geoffrey Chaucer. Library of Essential Reading Series (New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2005). vi-xv.
• "How Philosophy Matters: Sex, Death, Clothes, & Boethius." Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings. Ed. Jane Burns (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). 273-294.
• "Rips & Slits: Fashion and the Medieval Self." Clothing Culture 1300-1600. Ed. Catherine Richardson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). 223-238.

Reviews:

• John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England, ed. Larry Scanlon and James Simpson. (Notre Dame, IA: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). The Medieval Review, 2006.
• The Anonymous Marie de France, by R. Howard Bloch (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003). Le Cygne: Journal of the International Marie de France Society, 2006.
• Chaucer and Clothing: Clerical and Academic Costume in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, by Laura F. Hodges (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005). Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28(2006).