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Prof. Jean-Marie Kauth

Jean-Marie Kauth
Assistant Professor
Director of the Writing Program

Kindlon 220
jkauth@ben.edu
office | 630.829.6256
fax | 630.960.4805

office hours (spring 2009) |
MW 9-10 am; TR 9:30-11 am

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan | 1995
M.A., University of Michigan | 1991
B.A., University of Iowa | 1990


Research Interests

Dr. Kauth’s research interests include medieval and Renaissance literature, literature by women, textual communities, science and literature, and recently, Dante.


Selected Publications and Presentations

“Who Are We?: Integrating Institutional Core Texts into First-Semester Composition.” The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) Fourteenth Annual Conference: Plymouth, MA (April 2008).

“Beatrice and Pearl.” Forthcoming in ACTC Proceedings (The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) Twelfth Annual Conference, 2006).

“The Ancrene Wisse as Core Text.” The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) Fourteenth Annual Conference: Williamsburg, VA (March/April 2007).

“The Shaping of Dante’s Cosmos.”  Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture 32 (2006). 7-24.

“Beatrice and Pearl.” The Association for Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) Thirteenth Annual Conference: Chicago, IL (April 2006).

“Dante’s Cosmos.” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies: Kalamazoo, MI (May 2004).

“Performed Texts: Enacted Metaphor in Pamphilus.” 33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies: Kalamazoo, MI (May 1998).

“Book Metaphors in the Textual Community of the Ancrene Wisse.”  The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages.  Ed. Albrecht Classen.  New York: Garland Press, 1998. 99-122.


Courses Taught

HUMN 220 | The Mediterranean World
HUMN 230 | The Baptism of Europe
LITR 257 | British Literature I
LITR 265 | Shakespeare
LITR 266 | Studies in the Novel
LITR 268 | Studies in Drama
LITR 291/391 | Topics: Environmental Literature
WRIT 101 | Person in Community: Writing Seminar
WRIT 102 | Research Writing


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