Assistant Professor of English
Office
Moreland 222
Phone
541-737-1642
Email
tara.williams@oregonstate.edu
Education
Ph.D. Rutgers University 2004
B.A. University of Florida 1997
Areas of specialization
Medieval Literature, Development of Middle English, Devotional Literature,
Gender Studies & Women Writers
Selected publications
"‘As thu wer a wedow': Margery Kempe's Wifehood and
Widowhood," forthcoming in Exemplaria
"Manipulating Mary: Maternal, Sexual, and Textual
Authority in The Book of Margery Kempe," forthcoming in Modern Philology
"Multimedia Learning Gets Medieval," Pedagogy 9.1 (Winter
2009)
"The Host, His Wife, and Their Communities in the
Canterbury Tales," The Chaucer Review 42.4 (2008)
"Fragments and Foundations: Medieval Texts and the Future
of Feminism," Literature Compass vol. 4 (May 2007)
"‘T'assaye
in thee thy wommanheede': Griselda Chosen, Translated, and Tried," Studies in
the Age of Chaucer vol. 27 (2005)