Professor of English and Comparative Literature - Columbia University
Email Address: sc2298@columbia.edu
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English and Comparative Literature
602 Philosophy Hall
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New York, NY 10027
Office Address: 616 Philosophy Hall
Professor of English and Comparative Literature - Columbia University
Email Address: sc2298@columbia.edu
Mailing Address:
English and Comparative Literature
602 Philosophy Hall
Mail Code 4927
New York, NY 10027
Office Address: 616 Philosophy Hall
B.A., Wisconsin; M.A., Ph.D., Berkeley. Susan Crane specializes in English and French medieval literature and culture. The consequences of the Norman conquest for Britain's linguistic, literary, and social history are the focus of Insular Romance: Politics, Faith, and Culture in Anglo-Norman and Middle English Literature (California UP 1986) and subsequent articles on insular bilingualism. Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Princeton UP 1992) argues for interrelations between literary genres and ideologies of sexuality. The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War (Pennsylvania UP 2002) investigates pre-modern identity as it is expressed in secular rituals such as tournaments, weddings, and mummings. Current projects explore the purposes of translation in the late Middle Ages, and the relations between humans and animals in medieval thought and practice.
Animal Encounters in Medieval Britain.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming 2012.
The Performance of Self: Ritual, Clothing, and Identity during the Hundred Years War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Available at University of Pennsylvania Website
Gender and Romance in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Front Matter and Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Masculinity in Romance
Chapter 2: Feminine Mimicry and Masquerade
Chapter 3: Gender and Social Hierarchy
Chapter 4: Subtle Clerks and Uncanny Women
Insular Romance: Politics, Faith, and Culture in Anglo-Norman and Middle English Literature. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986.
Front Matter and Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Romances of Land and Lineage
Chapter 2: Land, Lineage, and Nation
Chapter 3: Religion in Pious Romances
Chapter 4: Measuring Conventions of Courtliness
Chapter 5: Adapting Conventions of Courtliness
"Face to Face: Ethical Responses to Animals in the Middle Ages," Shakespeare Studies 40 (2013), forthcoming.
"Animality," in A Handbook of Middle English Studies, ed. Marion Turner. Critical Theory Handbooks, Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming (2012).
"Representation," Colloquium on Animalia, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 34 (2012), forthcoming.
"Animal Methodologies," symposium editor with introduction, New Medieval Literatures 12 (2011): 117-19.
"Chivalry and the Pre / Postmodern," special issue The Animal Turn, postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 2:1 (March 2011): 69-87.
"Il genere nel medioevo," in Per una storia di genere della letteratura italiana. Percorsi critici e gender studies, ed. Virginia Cox. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2011. Pp. 104-15.
"Representations of Courtship and Marriage in the Salisbury Roll," The Coat of Arms: Journal of the Heraldry Society, 3rd ser., 6:1 (Spring 2010): 1-15.
"A Taxonomy of Creatures in the Second-Family Bestiary," New Medieval Literatures, 10 (2008): 1-48.
"Ritual Aspects of the Hunt à Force," in Engaging with Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ed. Barbara Hanawalt and Lisa Kiser. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Pp. 63-84.
"For the Birds," Biennial Chaucer Lecture, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 29 (2007): 23-41.
"How to Translate a Werewolf," The Medieval Translator 10, ed. Jacqueline Jenkins and Olivier Bertrand. Amsterdam: Brepols, 2007. Pp. 365-74.
"Charles of Orleans: Self-Translation," The Medieval Translator 8, ed. Rosalynn Voaden. Amsterdam: Brepols, 2003. Pp. 169-77.
"Duxworth Redux: The Paris Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales." In Manuscript, Narrrative, Lexicon: Essays on Literary and Cultural Transmission in Honor of Whitney F. Bolton, ed. Robert Boenig and Kathleen Davis. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2000. Pp. 17-44.
"Anglo-Norman Cultures in England, 1066-1460." In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 35-60.
"Maytime in Late Medieval Courts." New Medieval Literatures 2 (1998): 159-79.
"Social Aspects of Bilingualism in the Thirteenth Century." In Thirteenth Century England VI, ed. Michael Prestwich. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1997. Pp. 103-115.
"Knights in Disguise: Identity and Incognito in Fourteenth-Century Chivalry." In The Stranger in Medieval Society, ed. F.R.P. Akehurst and Stephanie Cain Van D'Elden. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. Pp. 63-79.
"Clothing and Gender Definition: Joan of Arc." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 26 (1996): 297-320.
"Brotherhood and the Construction of Courtship in Arthurian Romance." The Arthurian Yearbook 3 (1993): 193-99.
"Froissart's Dit dou Bleu Chevalier as a Source for Chaucer's Book of the Duchess." Medium Aevum 61 (1992): 59-74. "The Writing Lesson of 1381." In Chaucer's England, ed. Barbara Hanawalt. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992. Pp. 201-21.
"Medieval Romance and Feminine Difference in the Knight's Tale." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 12 (1990): 47-63.
"The Franklin as Dorigen." The Chaucer Review 24:3 (1990): 236-52.
"Alison of Bath Accused of Murder: Case Dismissed." English Language Notes 25 (1988): 10-15.
"Alison's Incapacity and Poetic Instability in the Wife of Bath's Tale." PMLA 102 (1987): 20-28.
"Guy of Warwick and the Question of Exemplary Romance." Genre 17 (1984): 351-74.
"Insular Tradition in the Story of Amis and Amiloun." Neophilologus 67 (1983): 611-22.
"The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell, line 48." The Explicator 40:3 (1982): 3-4.
"Anglo-Norman Romances of English Heroes: Ancestral Romance?" Romance Philology 35 (1981-82): 601-08.
"Horn 'Fairer bi one ribbe / Þane eni Man þat libbe.'" Notes and Queries n.s. 28 (1981): 116-17.