Frank Grady
Department of English
UM-St. Louis
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
BA Magna cum laude,
PUBLICATIONS
“Looking Awry at St. Erkenwald,” Exemplaria
23.2 (Summer 2011): 105-25.
Editor, Studies in the Age of
Chaucer, 2003-2007
Representing
Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England, (Palgrave-MacMillan,
2005)
Preface to The Canterbury Tales: A Selection,
ed. Donald Howard (Signet
Classics, 2005)
“Contextualizing Alexander and Dindimus,”
The Yearbook of Langland Studies
18 (2004): 81-106.
“Arnoldian
Humanism, or Amnesia and Autobiography in the Schwarzenegger Action Film,” Cinema Journal 42 (Winter 2003):
41-56. [available through Project Muse]
"Gower's Boat, Richard's Barge, and the
True Story of the Confessio Amantis: Text and Gloss," Texas Studies in Literature and Language
44:1(Spring 2002): 1-15. [available through Project
Muse]
"The Generation of 1399," in The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and
Literary Production in Medieval England, edited by
"St. Erkenwald and the Merciless
Parliament," Studies in
the Age of Chaucer 22 (2000):179-211.
"The Boethian
Reader of Troilus and Criseyde,"
The Chaucer Review
33 (1998): 230-251.
"Vampire Culture," in Monster Theory: Reading Culture,
ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (University of Minnesota Press, 1996): 225-41.
"Chaucer Reading Langland: The House of Fame," Studies in the Age of Chaucer
18 (1996): 3-23.
"Machomete and Mandeville's
Travels," in Medieval
Christian Perceptions of Islam, ed. John Tolan
(Garland Publishing, 1996): 271-88. Reprinted by Routledge, 2000.
"The Lancastrian Gower and the Limits of
Exemplarity," Speculum
70 (1995): 552-75. [available through JSTOR]
"Piers Plowman, St.
Erkenwald, and the Rule of Exceptional
Salvations," The Yearbook of
Langland Studies 6 (1992): 61-86.
CONFERENCE PAPERS/INVITED LECTURES
“Langland’s ‘Love-Dreem,’” Fifth
International Piers Plowman Conference, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, April
14-17, 2011
“Petrarch in Yorkshire, or, Literacy,
Piety, Charity, Family, History, Law, Romance, Politics, Penitence, Theology,
Humanism, and the Fifteenth-Century Urban Gentry,” 44th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7-10, 2009
“Teaching The General Prologue/The Knight’s Tale,” two workshops at the
Nineteenth Annual Literature Conference for Teachers and Lovers of Good Books, Eastern
Illinois University, October 23-24, 2008
“Seigneurial
Poetics, or The Poacher, the Prikasour,
the Hunt and Its Oeuvre,” The State of the Literary: Form
After Historicism, A Conference in Honor of Anne Middleton, University of
California- Berkeley, April 19, 2008
"Hard-boiled Hagiography, or, Looking Awry at St. Erkenwald," New Chaucer Society
Congress, New York City, July 27-31, 2006.
“Comstock’s
Chaucer,” Modern Language Association
Convention, Washington, DC, December 27-30, 2005
“Venery, Tragedy, and Translation, or, Are the
Nine Worthies really just a bunch of Nimrods?”,
University of Notre Dame, December 1, 2005
“How to Recognize a Virtuous
Pagan When You See One,” University of California, Irvine, November 17, 2004;
University of Texas, Austin, February 11, 2005; University of Missouri,
Columbia, October 21, 2005
“The Salvation of
the Heathen: Some Strategies for Getting Away with It,” Washington and
"The Trouble
with Trajan," Third International Piers Plowman Conference, University of
Birmingham, July 9-12, 2003
"Piers
Plowman and Alexander and Dindimus???" 38th International Conference on Medieval Studies,
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-11, 2003
"City, Scribe
and Patron in Fifteenth-Century London: The Case of Richard Frampton," 29th
Annual St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis University,
October 11-12, 2002
“City, Scribe and
Patron, or, Frampton Comes Alive,” Modern Language Association Convention, New
Orleans, LA, December 27-30, 2001
“Start the
Revolution Without Me: Violence, Politics, and the New Hollywood Epic,”
Violence, Cinema, and American Culture Conference, Center for the Humanities,
University of Missouri-St. Louis, April 6-7, 2001
"Textual
Poaching in The Parlement
of the Thre Ages," Modern Language
Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 2000
"'You Can't
Handle the Truth': Mum and the Sothsegger in the Reign of Henry IV," 35th
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 4-7, 2000
"Arnoldian Humanism: Allegory, Apparatus, and Autobiography
in the Action Film," University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO,
October 13, 1998
"’Exclusive of
Chaucer’: Curricular Animadversions," Biennial Conference of the New
Chaucer Society, University of Paris-Sorbonne, July 17-21, 1998
"Predestination, Foreknowledge, and the Boethian Reader of Troilus
and Criseyde," Fifth International Medieval Congress, University of
"The Generation
of 1399," 33rd International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7-10, 1998
"The
Lancastrian Usurpation of Ricardian Poetry,"
32nd International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-11, 1997
"Ricardian Justice in St.
Erkenwald," Modern Language Association
Convention, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 1996
"Miracles Are
Politics by Other Means: St. Erkenwald and the Merciless Parliament,"
31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 1996
"Sympathy
for the Vampire? From Dracula to The Vampire Lestat,"
Monday Noon Series Lecture, Center for the Humanities, University of
Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, April 22, 1996
"Arnoldian Humanism: Action, Allegory and Amnesia from Total Recall to True Lies," Mid-America American Studies Association, St.
Louis, MO, April 19-20, 1996
"Bourgeois
Long-Windedness: A Marxist Critique" ("How to Stop a Long-Winded
Speaker: A Metapanel"), Modern Language
Association Convention, San Diego, CA, December 27-30, 1994
"Dracula on the Border," Davidson College,
Davidson, NC, October 31, 1994
"The Vampire as
Culture," Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Minneapolis, MN,
November 4-6, 1993
"Gower's
Alexander and the Limits of Exemplarity," 28th International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 6-9, 1993
"The Man of Law's Tale and the Chaucerian
Critique of Romance,"
University of Missouri-St. Louis English Department Colloquium, April 20, 1993
"Chaucer
Reading Langland: The House of Fame,"
Modern Language Association Convention, New York, NY, December 27-30, 1992
"St. Erkenwald
and the Rule of Exceptional Salvations," Midwest Modern Language
Association Convention, St. Louis, MO, November 5-7, 1992
"Gender, Genre,
and the Sense of an Ending in the Man of
Law's Tale," "The Roles of Women in the Middle Ages: A
Reassessment" Conference, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Binghamton, NY, October 15-17, 1992
"Readers and
Writers, Cloister and Court, Alexander
and Dindimus," Medieval Association of the
Midwest Conference, Warrensburg, MO, September 20-21, 1991
"'Machomete' and Mandeville's
Travels" the 26th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 1991
"Nature and
Society, Cloister and Court, Alexander
and Dindimus," Medieval Association of the
Pacific Conference, Davis, CA, March 1-3, 1991
"Composition and the Study of Popular
Culture," (with Terry Mulcaire) Conference on
College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, March 22-24, 1990