| Name: | Dr. Moira Fitzgibbons |
| Title: | Associate Professor of English Director, Core/Liberal Studies Program |
| Office Location: | Fontaine 224 |
| Extension: | (845) 575-3000 ext. 6059 |
| Email: | Moira.Fitzgibbons@Marist.edu |
| Degrees Held: | B.A. Georgetown University Ph.D. Rutgers University-New Brunswick |
| Interests: | Strange texts and smart students. |
| Publications: | "Using Gullah as a Focal Point in an HEL Course," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 15.2 (2008), 55-69. "Poverty, Dignity, and Lay Spirituality in 'Pore Caitif' and 'Jacob's Well,'" Medium Aevum (2008), 222-240. Review of John Mirk's 'Festial': Orthodoxy, Lollardy, and the Common People, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (Fall 2007). "'Cross-Voiced' Assignments and the Critical 'I,'" Teaching Chaucer in the University , eds. Louise Sylvester and Gail Ashton (Palgrave, 2007), 65-80. "Penitential Pedagogy in 'Jacob's Well'," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005) 213-37. Review, Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England (Mary C. Erler), Albion: The Journal of the North American Conference on British Studies 36 (Summer, 2003), 236-8. Review, Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580 (SunHee Kim Gertz), Albion: The Journal of the North American Conference on British Studies 34 (Summer, 2002), 286-8. "Disruptive Simplicity: Gaytryge's Translation of Archbishop Thoresby's Injunctions," The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature, eds. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Warren (Palgrave, 2002), 39-58. "Presumed Relevant: Feminism Taken for Granted in a Medievalist's Orals," Medieval Feminist Newsletter (Spring 1995), 18-19. |
| Research Interests: | Late medieval religious literature and culture; gender studies and critical theory; questions of literacy, pedagogy, and education (medieval and modern); Chaucer; Christine de Pizan; Old English Language and Literature; modern representations of medieval life and texts; documentary films. |
