Josephine Bloomfield
Associate Professor
Medieval Language and Literature
Office: Ellis 330
Office Phone: 593-2830
Email: bloomfie@ohio.edu
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Degrees
Ph.D., University of California
M.A., Dominican College of San Rafael
B.A., Wilmington College
Publications
Review of Benjamin Withers and Jonathan Cox, eds.,Naked Before God: Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England (WVUP, 2003), Envoi 11:1 (Spring 2005): 93-98.
Review of Katherine Scarfe Beckett, Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World (Cambridge UP, 2003), Envoi 11:1 (Spring 2005): 33-35.
Review of Pegg McCracken, The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero: blood, Gender, and Medieval Literature (U Pennsylvania, 2003), Envoi 10:2 (Spring 2004): 147-150.
“‘The Doctrine of These Olde Wyse’: Commentary on the Commentary Tradition in Chaucer’s Dream Vision of Poems,” Essays in Medieval Studies 20 (2004): 125-133.
Review of Andy Orchard, A Critical Companion to Beowulf (D.S. Brewer, 2003), The Medieval Review 03.09.05 11 September, 2003. http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr.
“Benevolent Authoritarianism in Klaeber’s Beowulf: An Editorial Translation of Kingship,” Modern Language Quarterly 60:2 (1999): 129-159.
“Chaucer and the Polis: Piety and Desire in the Troilus and Criseyde,” Modern Philology 94:3 (1997): 291-304.
“Diminished by Kindness: Frederick Klaeber’s Rewriting of Wealthow,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 93:2 (1994): 183-203.
“A Test of Attribution: William Dunbar’s ‘Bewty and the Presoneir’,” English Language Notes 30:4 (1993): 11-19.
“The Bourgeois Family in Beowulf: Frederick Klaeber and Sentimental Kinship,” Nineteenth Century Contexts 17:1 (1993): 63-81.
“Gascoigne’s Master F.J. as a Renaissance Proto-Novel: the Birth of the Judicious Editor a Narrator,” Essays in Literature 19:2 (1992): 163-172.
“Recovering Henryson: An Exploration of Obstacles in Canon Reformation,” Bestia, Journal of the American Beast Fable Society 1 (1989): 42-51.
Courses
History of the English Language
Medieval Survey
Sin and Sex in Western Legal History
Graduate Medieval Topics