Cynthia A. Rogers
Visiting Assistant Professor
PhD Indiana University
Areas of Interest & Expertise
Medieval Literature and Culture
Lyric poetry
Early Drama
Nature of Women Debate
Game of Love
Recent Courses Taught
ENGL 4600 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Spring 2022
ENGL 3123 H(onors) Mythology, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
ENGL 2543 British Literature Survey I, Spring 2019, Spring 2022
ENGL 2413 H(onors) Medievalisms (taught as Explorations in Literature), Fall 2020, Fall 2021
ENGL 2413 Explorations in Literature, Spring 2019, Fall 2019
ENGL 1313 H(onors) Battle of the Sexes: Critical Analysis and Writing, Fall 2019, Fall 2021
ENGL 1213 Composition II, Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2021
ENGL 1113 Composition I, Fall 2018, Fall 2020
Selected Publications
"Outcast Lyrics: Medieval Reading vs Modern Editing Practices." in Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Language, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn. De Gruyter. 2021.
“A Series of Unfortunate Events: Collation Errors in Hoccleve’s Letter of Cupid.” Notes & Queries. June, 2020.
“The Findern Manuscript (CUL Ff.1.6).” Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. (Feb, 2018).
“Buried in an Hert: French Poetics and the Ends of Genre in Chaucer’s ‘The Complaint Unto Pity.’” The Chaucer Review 51, no. 2 (2016): 187-208.
Selected Conference Presentations
"Signs of Book-borrowing and Text Transmission in Late-Medieval Derbyshire." Early Book Society, online, 2021.
“Assembling Arguments: The Collecting and Repurposing of Texts for the Late-medieval Nature of Women Debate.” Making the English Book Conference, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, October 2017. (Invited Lecture).
“Letting Gower Teach the Game of Love.” International Congress of the John Gower Society, Durham, England, 2017.
“Sowing the ‘Seed of Conpleynte’: Surveying the Manuscript Contexts for Middle English Querelle des Femmes Texts.” Early Book Society Conference, Durham, England, 2017.
“Querelle over and in the Findern MS (CUL MS Ff.1.6): An Analysis of Women's Names and Female Voices within the Manuscript.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2016.
Awards and Recognition
New Chaucer Society Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2016/17 ($50,000)
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship: "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," 2016 ($3,300)
Schallek Award Recipient, Medieval Academy of America, 2013 ($2,000)
Curent Research
Book under contract: Playing the Game of Love: Intertextuality in the Findern Manuscript. New Century Chaucer Series, University of Wales.