Curriculum Vitae Karmen J. Lenz 849 Laurel Avenue Macon, GA 31211 478-471-5746 karmen.lenz@mga.edu Education: Doctor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (December 2004) Dissertation: “Images of Psychic Landscape in the Meters of King Alfred's Froferboc” (passed with distinction and awarded the Tom L. Popejoy Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation submitted to the University in Languages and Literatures from January 2002-December 2004). Committee: Dr. Helen Damico (advisor), Dr. Timothy Graham, Dr. Jay Rubenstein, Dr. Anita Obermeier, and Michael Demkovich, O.P. Master of Liberal Education, St. John’s Graduate Institute, Santa Fe, NM (December 1989) Publications (Chronological) “The Vespers Antiphon in the Monastic Office for Saint Cuthbert.” Readers, Reading and Reception in Devotional Literature and Practice. Eds. Susan Usselman, Catherine Annette Grisé, and Kathryn Vulic. Turnhout: Brepols (in press, available October 2015). Frofer and Ræd: Christian Poetics in the Meters of King Alfred’s “Book of Consolation.” Amsterdam: Rodopi (now Brill), 2012. Rev. Francis Leneghan. Medium Ævum 58.1 (2014): 140-41. “The Star-like Soul in the Metra of the Alfredian Boethius.” Anglo-Saxon England 39 (2011): 139-62. [peer reviewed] Meister Eckhart. “Sermon II.1: Feast of the Blessed Trinity.” Co-Translation with Michael Demkovich. AYCARDUS Project: Dominican Sources in Meister Eckhart, directed by Professor Michael Demkovich. O.P. 6 December 2010. (http://sites.google.com/site/aycardusproject). [Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University] “Liturgical Readings of the Cathedral Office for Saint Cuthbert.” Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 12 (May 2009) Web. [peer reviewed] Commissioned Review of Books: “Section 4: Anglo-Saxon Literature.” The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2010. Edd. Daniel Donoghue and R.M. Liuzza (= Old English Newsletter 45.2 [2014]): 48-62. [Book-length reviews are itemized below]: 2 Beechy, Tiffany. The Poetics of Old English. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. Flood, John. Representations of Eve in Antiquity and the English Middle Ages. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2010. Keefer, Sarah Larratt, ed. Old English Liturgical Verse: A Student Edition. Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 2010. Saunders, Corinne, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. 703 pp. The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation. Eds. Greg Delanty, Michael Matto and Seamus Heaney. New York: Norton, 2010. Published 2013 in The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2009: Old English Newsletter 43 (2012): 57-70: Clark, David. Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. DuBois, Thomas A. Lyric, Meaning, and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe. Notre Dame: Notre Dame UP, 2006. Trilling, Renée R. The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Old English Verse. Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series 3. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2009. Published 2012 in The Year’s Work in Old English Studies 2008: Old English Newsletter 42 (2011): 53-36 Pezzini, Domenico The Translation of Religious Texts in the Middle Ages: Tracts and Rules, Hymns and Saints’ Lives. Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication 69. Peter Lang, 2008. Sobecki, Sebastian I. The Sea and Medieval English Literature by. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2008. Ward, Benedicta. Christ within Me: Prayers and Meditations from the Anglo-Saxon Tradition. 2nd ed. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 2008. Conference Chairing and Presentations (since 2006): “The Mind as Sanctuary in the Liturgy, and the writing of Bede, Gregory, and Alfred the Great.” Georgia Medievalist Society (MGA, February 7, 2014). Co-Presentor, “Building Communities with Diverse Students,” The SoTL Commons, A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Statesboro, GA, March 2011). “The Star-like Soul in the Meters of the Old English Boethius,” 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI, May 2010). Session organizer and presider, “Intersections in Anglo-Saxon Culture,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (November 2008). Presider, “Royal Saints in Late Medieval England,” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 2008). “Translation as Commentary: Social Order in the Old English Book of Consolation, 33rd Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association (October 2007). Presider, Medieval Philosophical Manuscripts, 33rd Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association (October 2007). “The Politics of Contemplation in King Alfred’s Book of Consolation,” Fourth Annual Conference for the Society of Literary Scholars and Critics, San Francisco, CA (October 2006). “The Poetics of Liturgy: Bede’s Poetic Life of St. Cuthbert and the Office of St. Cuthbert,” Seminar on Holy Men and Holy Women of Anglo-Saxon England, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities Council, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Languages, Cambridge University (Summer 2006). 3 New Courses: (Middle Georgia State University) ENG 3121: Myth and Folklore in Literature (Spring 2015) ENG 3999: Tolkien Studies (Spring 2014) ENG 3999: Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture (Spring 2012) ENG 3100: Early English Literature (Summer 2009) ENG 3300: Literature of the Renaissance (Fall 2008) HUMN1101: Perspectives in Narrative – Mythology and Folklore (Spring 2008) ENG 3400: Shakespeare at Home (London Study Abroad Program summer 2007) HUMN 3999: Medieval Media (Spring 2007) Awards (since 2007): May 11, 2014 – Excellence in Scholarship in the English Department, Middle Georgia State College April 8, 2011 - Excellence in Student Service Award from the Macon State College student members of The National Society of Leadership and Success Summer 2007 – National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend award to study Medieval Holy Men and Women at Cambridge University Professional Memberships: Medieval Academy of America International Boethius Society South-Atlantic Modern Language Association
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