School of Critical Studies

Prof Elizabeth Robertson

  • Professor of English Language (English Language)

email: Elizabeth.Robertson@glasgow.ac.uk


Research interests

  • Anglo Saxon and Middle English Literature
  • Religion and Gender in Anglo-Saxon and Middle English poetry
  • Poetics
  • Medieval Welsh poetry

Biography

Elizabeth Robertson received a degree in Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse and Celtic form Cambridge University and a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She became a professor of English literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder where she taught for twenty-eight years. In 2009, she took up a position as Chair of English Language at the University of Glasgow. In 1986, with Jane Burns and Roberta Krueger, she founded the Medieval Feminist Newsletter, which became the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship. She has held fellowships form the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment of the Humanities. She is actively involved in the New Chaucer society and is an elected member of the advisory board of the International Piers Plowman Society.  An experienced mentor, she has won numerous prizes in teaching including the University of Colorado’s highest award when she was appointed a Presidential Teaching Scholar in 2008.

Elizabeth Robertson’s primary research focuses on vernacular theology, medieval poetics, literacy in the Middle Ages, and gender and religion in Middle English literature from the  Ancrene Wisse  to the Ricardian poets, especially Chaucer and Langland. She has recently become especially interested in poetic form in poetry in all the languages of the British Isles from 500-1500 from the perspective of new formalism. She is also interested in the intersection of theology/philosophy and literature (especially Aquinas and the voluntarists.)  She has published a book on the  Ancrene Wisse  and the AB texts, co-edited an edition ofPiers Plowman  (for Norton) and Bodley 34 (for TEAMS), and collections of essays on Chaucer’s religious tales, rape in medieval and early modern literature, and relics from a global interdisciplinary perspective.  She has published numerous essays on gender and religion in edited collections and journals such asSpeculum  and Studies in the  Age of Chaucer. She is about to complete a book on  Chaucer, Chaucerian Consent: Women, Religion and Subjection in Late Medieval England  and has begun another book on the representation and theology of the soul in Anglo-Saxon and Middle English literature,  Souls that Matter: The Representation of the Soul in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.

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Number of items: 54.

2013

Robertson, E.A. (2013) Medieval English Religious Prose for Women: An Edition of The Katherine Group. Medieval Institute Publications. (In Press)

Robertson, E.A. (2013) Noli me Tangere: the enigma of touch in Middle English religious writing. In: Walter, K. (ed.) Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture. Palgrave.

2012

Robertson, E. (2012) Women and networks of literary production. In: Watt, D. and McAvoy, E.A. (eds.) A History of British Women’s Writing: Volume 1: 700-1500. Palgrave, New York, pp. 151-159. ISBN 9780230235106

Robertson, E.A. (2012) Kissing the worm: sex and gender after death. In: Burns, J. and McCracken, P. (eds.) Stones, Worms, and Skin: Gender and Embodiment in Medieval Europe. Forthcoming. (Unpublished)

2011

Robertson, E.A. (2011) Apprehending the divine and choosing to believe: voluntarist free will in Chaucer's second Nun's Tale. Chaucer Review, 46 (1-2). pp. 111-130. ISSN 0009-2002

2010

Robertson, E.A., and Jahner, J. (2010) Medieval and Early Modern Devotional Objects in Global Perspective: Translations of the Sacred (The New Middle Ages). Series: The new Middle Ages . Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9780230616042

2009

Pasnau, R., and Robertson, E.A. (2009) A Sotyl Thinge withouten Tonge and Teeth: Souls dialogue with Body, and literatures Dialogue with philosophy. English Language Notes. Special Issue: Experimental Literary Education, 47 (1). ISSN 0013-8282

Robertson, E. (2009) Alliterative poetics in Piers Plowman. In: Medieval Institute Meetings, 7-10 May 2009, Kalamazoo. (Unpublished)

2008

Robertson, E. (2008) Langland's alliterative meter in the classroom. In: International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2008, Kalamazoo . (Unpublished)

Robertson, Elizabeth (2008) Dilatory Julian. In: Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Conference, February 2008. (Unpublished)

Robertson, E..A. (2008) Julian of Norwich's Unmediated Vision. In: International Anchoritic Society (I.A.S.), September 15th-17th 2008, Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan. (Unpublished)

Robertson, E.A. (2008) Julian of Norwich’s modernist style and the creation of audience. In: McAvoy, L. (ed.) A Companion to Julian of Norwich. Cambridge University Press, pp. 139-153.

Robertson, E.A. (2008) Practicing women: the matter of women in medieval England. Literature Compass, 5 (3). pp. 505-528. (doi:10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00547.x)

2007

Robertson, E.A. (2007) Medieval feminism in Middle English studies: a retrospective. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 26 (1). pp. 67-80. ISSN 0732-7730

2006

Robertson, E.A. and Shepherd, S., (Eds.) (2006) Piers Plowman: A Norton Critical Edition of the B-Text. Series: Norton critical edition. Norton.

Robertson, E.A. (2006) Anchoresses. In: Schaus, M. (ed.) Women and Gender in Medieval Europe : An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 9780415969444

Robertson, E.A. (2006) Ancrene Wisse. In: Schaus, M. (ed.) Women and Gender in Medieval Europe : An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 9780415969444

Robertson, E.A. (2006) Criseyde. In: Schaus, M. (ed.) Women and Gender in Medieval Europe : An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 9780415969444

Robertson, E.A. (2006) Savoring science: the medieval anchoress reads the Ancrene Wisse. In: Wada, Y. (ed.) A Companion to Ancrene Wisse. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780859917629

Robertson, E.A. (2006) Souls that matter: gender and the soul in Piers Plowman. In: Wheeler, B. (ed.) Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature : Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403969705

Robertson, E.A. (2006) Twenty years of medieval feminist scholarship: reflections on the foundation of the Medieval Feminist Newsletter, the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, and the Medieval Feminist Forum. Medieval Feminist Forum, 42 (5). pp. 14-25.

Robertson, E.A. (2006) Vernacular theology and medieval studies: introduction. English Language Notes, 42 (5). pp. 77-80. ISSN 0013-8282

Robertson, E.A. (2006) Wife of Bath. In: Schaus, M. (ed.) Women and Gender in Medieval Europe : An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 9780415969444

Robertson, E.A. (2006) Women writers in England. In: Schaus, M. (ed.) Women and Gender in Medieval Europe : An Encyclopedia. Routledge. ISBN 9780415969444

2005

Robertson, E.A. (2005) Modern Chaucer. In: Ellis, S. (ed.) Chaucer : An Oxford Guide. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199259120

Robertson, E.A. (2005) Rape, female subjectivity and the poetics of married love in Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale and James I's Kingis Quair. In: Stein, R.M., Prior, S.P. and Hanning, R.W. (eds.) Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 9780268041113

2003

Robertson, E.A. (2003) Marriage, mutual consent, and the affirmation of the female subject in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, and The Franklin's Tale. In: Harding, W. (ed.) Drama, Narrative and Poetry in the Canterbury tales. Presses universitaires du Mirail, pp. 175-195. ISBN 9782858167050

Robertson, E.A. (2003) Non-violent Christianity and the strangeness of female power in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Man of Law’s Tale. In: Farmer, S.A. and Pasternack, C.B. (eds.) Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 322-352. ISBN 9780816638949

Robertson, E.A. (2003) "This living hand": thirteenth-century female literacy, materialist immanence, and the reader of the Ancrene Wisse. Speculum, 78 (1). pp. 1-36. ISSN 0038-7134

2001

Robertson, E. and Rose, C.M., (Eds.) (2001) Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Palgrave. ISBN 9780312236489

Robertson, E. (2001) Measurement and the "feminine" in Piers Plowman: a response to recent studies of Langland and gender. In: Hewett-Smith, K.M. (ed.) William Langland's Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays. Routledge, pp. 167-194. ISBN 9780815328049

Robertson, E.A. (2001) Introduction. In: Robertson, E.A. and Rose, C.M. (eds.) Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Palgrave. ISBN 9780312236489

Robertson, E.A. (2001) Public bodies and psychic domains: rape and female subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. In: Robertson, E.A. and Rose, C. (eds.) Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Palgrave , pp. 281-310. ISBN 9780312236489

Robertson, E.A. (2001) The elvyssh power of constance: Christian feminism in the Man of Law’s Tale. Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 23 . pp. 143-180. ISSN 1949-0755

1998

Robertson, E.A. (1998) The Ancrene Wisse. In: Szarmach, P.E., Tavormina, M.T. and Rosenthal, J.T. (eds.) Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. Garland. ISBN 9780824057862

Robertson, E.A. (1998) The Katherine Group. In: Szarmach, P.E., Tavormina, M.T. and Rosenthal, J.T. (eds.) Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. Garland. ISBN 9780824057862

Robertson, E.A. (1998) Women in Medieval English Literature. In: Szarmach, P.E., Tavormina, M.T. and Rosenthal, J.T. (eds.) Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. Garland. ISBN 9780824057862

1996

Robertson, E.A. (1996) Comprehending rape in Medieval England. Medieval Feminist Newsletter, 21 . pp. 13-15.

1995

Robertson, E.A. (1995) Historicizing literacy: new directions in Anglo-Saxon criticism. Review, 17 . pp. 211-224.

Robertson, E.A. (1995) Medieval subjectivity and the church: a modest proposal for future research. AESTEL, 3 . pp. 61-80. ISSN 1068-3852

1994

Edwards, A.S.G., and Robertson, E.A. (1994) A proposed emendation of The Kingis Quair line 402. Notes and Queries, 41 (3). ISSN 0029-3970

1993

Robertson, E.A. (1993) Medieval medical views of women and female spirituality. In: Lomperis, L. and Stanbury, S. (eds.) Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature. University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 142-167. ISBN 9780812213645

1992

Robertson, E.A. (1992) Feminism and medieval studies and the academy. Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Fall . pp. 22-25.

1991

Robertson, E.A. (1991) Aspects of female piety in the Prioress's Tale. In: Benson, C.D. and Robertson, E.A. (eds.) Chaucer's Religious Tales. D.S. Brewer, pp. 145-160. ISBN 9780859913027

Robertson, E.A. (1991) The corporeality of female sanctity in The Life of St. Margaret. In: Images of Sainthood in Medieval Europe. Cornell University Press, pp. 268-287. ISBN 9780801497452

1990

Benson, C.D. and Robertson, E., (Eds.) (1990) Chaucer's Religious Tales. D.S. Brewer. ISBN 9780859913027

Robertson, E.A. (1990) Aspects of female piety in Chaucer's Prioress's Tale. In: Benson, C.D. and Robertson, E.A. (eds.) Chaucer's Religious Tales. D.S. Brewer. ISBN 9780859913027

Robertson, E.A. (1990) Early English Devotional Prose and the Female Audience. University of Tennessee Press.

Robertson, E.A. (1990) Obedience and the Man of Law's Tale. In: Congress of the New Chaucer Society, August 1990, University of Kent. (Unpublished)

Robertson, E.A. (1990) An anchorhold of her own: female anchoritic literature in thirteenth century England. In: Holloway, J.B., Wright, C.S. and Bechtold, J. (eds.) Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages. P. Lang, pp. 170-183. ISBN 9780820415178

1989

Robertson, E.A. (1989) The rule of the body: the feminine spirituality of the Ancrene Wisse. In: Fisher, S. and Halley, J.E. (eds.) Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism. University of Tennessee Press, pp. 109-134. ISBN 9780870495915

1984

Robertson, E.A. (1984) Speaking from the place of the other: identity and narrative form in the life and art of Zelda Fitzgerald. Denver Quarterly . pp. 130-139.

1983

Robertson, E.A., and Bell, L.M. (1983) The sa inn pattern: a study in literary idiom in Old Norse and Anglo Saxon. In: Fix, H. (ed.) Jenseits von Index und Konkordanz: Beiträge zur Auswertung maschinenlesbarer altnordischer Texte. P. Lang, pp. 81-117. ISBN 9783820452228

Robertson, E.A., and Cuff, D. (1983) Words and images: the alchemy of communication. Journal of Architectural Education, 36 (2). pp. 8-15. ISSN 1046-4883

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She seeks postgraduates interested in working with Langland (and especially with Langland manuscripts), Chaucer and the reception of Chaucer across centuries, Middle English religious literature for, by and about women; female literacy; theology and literature; death in the Middle Ages, the nature of the Christian subject in medieval Britain, and poetic innovation in Britain in the Middle Ages.