Cynthia A. Rogers
Visiting Assistant Professor
PhD Indiana University
Areas of Interest & Expertise
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Medieval Literature and Culture
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Lyric poetry
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Early Drama
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Nature of Women Debate
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Game of Love
Recent Courses Taught
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ENGL 4600 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Spring 2022
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ENGL 3123 H(onors) Mythology, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
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ENGL 2543 British Literature Survey I, Spring 2019, Spring 2022
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ENGL 2413 H(onors) Medievalisms (taught as Explorations in Literature), Fall 2020, Fall 2021
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ENGL 2413 Explorations in Literature, Spring 2019, Fall 2019
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ENGL 1313 H(onors) Battle of the Sexes: Critical Analysis and Writing, Fall 2019, Fall 2021
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ENGL 1213 Composition II, Spring 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2021
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ENGL 1113 Composition I, Fall 2018, Fall 2020
Selected Publications
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"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.
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“A Series of Unfortunate Events: Collation Errors in Hoccleve’s Letter of Cupid.” Notes & Queries. June, 2020.
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“The Findern Manuscript (CUL Ff.1.6).” Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. (Feb, 2018).
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“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
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"Signs of Book-borrowing and Text Transmission in Late-Medieval Derbyshire." Early Book Society, online, 2021.
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“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).
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“Letting Gower Teach the Game of Love.” International Congress of the John Gower Society, Durham, England, 2017.
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“Sowing the ‘Seed of Conpleynte’: Surveying the Manuscript Contexts for Middle English Querelle des Femmes Texts.” Early Book Society Conference, Durham, England, 2017.
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“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
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New Chaucer Society Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2016/17 ($50,000)
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National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship: "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales," 2016 ($3,300)
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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.