Marsha Dutton
Professor
Departmental Honors Coordinator, English Tutorial Program Director
Office: Ellis 354
Office Phone: 597-2752
Email: dutton@ohio.edu
Degrees
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, 1981
M.A.T., English Literature, University of Kansas, 1974
Non-degree student, Faculté Libre de la Théologie Protestant, Paris, 1964-65
A.B., English, French, Philosophy, University of Kansas, cum laude, 1964
Publications
Books
Aelred of Rievaulx. The Historical Works. Ed. Marsha L. Dutton. Trans. Jane Patricia Freeland. Cistercian Fathers series 56. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 2005.
Truth as Gift: Studies in Cistercian History in Honor of John R. Sommerfeldt. Ed. Marsha L. Dutton, Daniel M. La Corte, and Paul Lockey. Cistercian Studies series 204. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 2004.
Articles
“Friendship and the Love of God: Augustine’s Teaching in the Confessions and Aelred of Rievaulx’s Response.” American Benedictine Review 56 (2005): 3-40.
Preface. The Debate about Aelred: Looking for the True Face of Aelred of Rievaulx. By Ryszard Gron. Warsaw: Philosofikical-Theological Publishing House, “Antyk,” 2005. iii-xvi [in Polish], 235-58 [English appendix].
Introduction, with Daniel M. La Corte. Truth as Gift: Studies in Cistercian History in Honor of John R. Sommerfeldt. Ed. Marsha L. Dutton, Daniel M. La Corte, and Paul Lockey. Cistercian Studies series 204. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 2004. xxiii-xxxvi.
“A Historian’s Historian: The Place of Bede in Aelred’s Contributions to the New History of his Age.” Truth as Gift: Studies in Cistercian History in Honor of John R. Sommerfeldt. Ed. Marsha L. Dutton, Daniel M. La Corte, and Paul Lockey. Cistercian Studies series 204. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 2004. 407-48.
Aelred of Rievaulx. “Oratio Pastoralis.” Ed. Marsha L. Dutton. Cistercian Studies Quarterly 38 (2003): 297-308.
Introduction. “Aelred of Rievaulx: The Pastoral Prayer.” Trans. Mark DelCogliano. Cistercian Studies Quarterly 37 (2002): 453-60.
“The Learned Monk of Gilbert of Hoyland: Sweet Wisdom in Cells of Doctrine.” Praise, No Less than Charity: Studies in Honor of M. Chrysogonus Waddell Monk of Gethsemani Abbey. Cistercian Studies series 193. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 2002. 161-74.
“The Medici Connection: Gilbert of Hoyland’s Sermons on the Song of Songs in Renaissance Italy.” C"teaux, 52 (2001): 93-120. (Presented at the 1998 Cistercian Studies Congress.)
“The Works of Gilbert of Hoyland: The Manuscripts and Printed Editions.” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 35 (2000): 161-86.
“Chaucer’s Two Nuns.” Monasteries and Society in Medieval England. Harlaxton Medieval Studies VI. Ed. Benjamin Thompson. Stamford (Eng): Watkins, 1998. 21-37.
“Kempe, Margery (c. 1373-after 1439).” Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 2000. 317-19.
“The Invented Sexual History of Aelred of Rievaulx: A Review Article.” American Benedictine Review 47 (1996): 414-32.
“John of Forde’s Vita Wulfrici Anchoretae Haselbergiae: A Model for Cistercian Contemplative Life.” A Gathering of Friends: The Learning and Spirituality of John of Forde. Ed. Hilary Costello and Christopher Holdsworth. CS 161. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1996. 65-92.
“One Faith, One Hope, One Baptism: Commentary on the 1993 Roman Catholic Ecumenical Directory.” Ecumenical Trends Oct. 1995: 11-20.
“The Provenance and Contents of the Rievaulx Manuscript in Archbishop Marsh’s Library, Dublin.” Analecta Cisterciensia 51 (1995): 419-35.
“Aelred of Rievaulx on Friendship, Chastity, and Sex: The Sources.” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 29 (1994): 121-96.
Introduction. Walter Daniel: The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx. Cistercian Fathers Series 57. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1994. 7-88.
“Aelred historien: deux nouveaux portraits dans un manuscrit de Dublin.” Collectanea cisterciensia 55 (1993): 208-30.
“Aelred, Historian: Two Portraits in Plantagenet Myth.” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 28 (1993): 112-43.
“Two Cistercian Manuscripts in Dublin.” Hallel 18 (1993): 77-84.
“The Face and the Feet of God: The Humanity of Christ in Bernard of Clairvaux and Aelred of Rievaulx.” Bernardus Magister: Papers Celebrating the Nonacentenary of the Birth of Bernard of Clairvaux. Ed. John R. Sommerfeldt. Cistercian Studies Series 135. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1992. 203-23.
“‘When I Was a Child’: Spiritual Infancy and God’s Maternity in Augustine’s Confessiones.” Collectanea Augustiniana. Ed. Joseph C. Schnaubelt and Frederick Van Fleteren. New York: Lang, 1990. 113-40.
“The Vocation and Conversion of Aelred of Rievaulx: A Historical Hypothesis.” England in the Twelfth Century. Ed. Daniel Williams. London: Boydell, 1990. 31-49.
“Lexicography and Popular History: Readers and Their Slips for the New English Dictionary.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 8 (1988): 96-113.
“Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: The Eucharistic Spirituality of the Cistercian Fathers.” Erudition at God’s Service: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History, XI. Ed. John R. Sommerfeldt. Cistercian Studies Series 98. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1987. 1-32.
“Intimacy and Imitation: The Humanity of Christ in Cistercian Spirituality.” Erudition at God’s Service: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History, XI. Ed. John R. Sommerfeldt. Cistercian Studies Series 98. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1987. 33-70.
“The Cistercian Source: Aelred, Bonaventure, and Ignatius.” Goad and Nail: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History, X. Ed. E. Rozanne Elder. Cistercian Studies Series 84. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1985. 151-78.
“Christ Our Mother: Aelred’s Iconography for Contemplative Union.” Goad and Nail: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History, X. Ed. E. Rozanne Elder. Cistercian Studies Series 84. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1985. 21-45.
“Getting Things the Wrong Way Round: Composition and Transposition in Aelred of Rievaulx’s De institutione inclusarum.” Heaven on Earth: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History, IX. Ed. E. Rozanne Elder. Cistercian Studies Series 68. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1983. 90-101.
“A Prodigal Writes Home: Aelred of Rievaulx’s De institutione inclusarum.Ó Heaven on Earth: Studies in Medieval Cistercian History, IX. Ed. E. Rozanne Elder. Cistercian Studies Series 68. Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1983. 35-42.
Work in Progress
By the Talons of a Hawk: Crime, Vengeance, and Miraculous Delivery among the Gilbertines at Watton
The Sermons of Gilbert of Hoyland on the Song of Songs: A Critical Edition. To appear in Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis.
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
Professor, Department of English, Ohio University, 2006-
Associate Professor, Department of English, Ohio University, 1998-2006
Visiting Sabbatical Professor, The General Theological Seminary, Michelmas term 1998
Associate Professor, Department of English, Hanover College, 1992-98
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Hanover College, 1989-92
Assistant Research Editor, Middle English Dictionary, The University of Michigan, 1986-1989
Honors and Grants
Ohio University, Baker Grant, “The Works of Gilbert of Hoyland,” 2000
Arthur and Ilene Baynham Award for Outstanding Teaching, Hanover College, 1998
Arthur and Ilene Baynham Award for Outstanding Teaching, Hanover College, 1993
Faculty Development Committee, Hanover College, “The Works of Gilbert of Hoyland,” 1998
Faculty Development Committee, Hanover College, “The Works of Gilbert of Hoyland,” 1996
Office of the Vice President for Research, The University of Michigan, “Five Previously Unedited Middle English Texts from Oxford St. John’s College MS. 173,” 1988
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1994
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections grant, 1992
English-Speaking Union, Cincinnati Branch, “Manuscripts of the Historical Works of Aelred of Rievaulx,” 1998
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Kansas, 1963
Editorial Positions
Associate Editor, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 1994-
Member, Editorial Board, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 1991-
Editor, Documentary materials to accompany Wisconsin Public Radio series, Women of Spirit, 1990
Associate Editor, Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary
Society of North America, 1988-90 Editorial Associate, Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 1984-88