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

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

RESEARCH AREAS:
medieval literature; gender studies; medieval material culture; Middle English literature; Boethius; Chaucer; Lydgate; medieval lyric; medieval clothing, fashion, and consumption; theories of ornament; theories of practice; theories of consumption; arma Christi; medieval epic & romance; medieval knighthood.

Professor Denny-Brown studies the intersections of late medieval poetry and material culture, specializing in the way in which early forms of material culture and consumption are influenced by philosophical notions of materiality. Her current book project, Fortune and Fashion in the Middle Ages, 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 recently co-edited, with Lisa H. Cooper (UW-Madison), a book entitled Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).  She is currently co-editing another collection of articles on the importance of the arma Christi image cluster across periods, mediums, and genres.

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS:

Resident Fellow, UC-Riverside Center for Ideas and Society, Winter 2008
UC President’s Fellowship, 2006-07
Academic Senate Fellowships, UC-Riverside, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08
Regent’s Faculty Fellowship, UC-Riverside, 2005-06, 2007-08
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

Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century.  Co-edited with Lisa H. Cooper (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

Fortune and Fashion in Late Medieval England (in progress).            

Arma Christi: Objects, Representation, and Devotional Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Culture.  Co-edited with Lisa H. Cooper (in progress).

(Creative) 5 by Five: Five Poems by Five New York Poets. Co-written with Robert Pestka, Danielle Bizzarro, Jeff Carroll, Sarah Hannah (NY: Trafford Publishing, 2001)

Articles & short pieces:

"Old Habits Die Hard: Vestimentary Change in William Durandus’s Rationaledivinorum officiorum." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Fall 2009).  Special issue edited by Margaret F. Rosenthal.

"Fashioning Change in Medieval England."  Philological Quarterly 87 (2009).  Special issue edited by Kathy Lavezzo and Susan E. Phillips.

 "Gambling for God: Dice in the Arma Christi Lyric and the Towneley Play of the Dice." Arma Christi: Objects, Representation, and Devotional Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Culture.  Co-edited with Lisa H. Cooper (in progress).

"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).