Saint Louis University

3800 Lindell Boulevard St.

Louis, MO 63108
anolan3@slu.edu
ashleyott.org

Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. English (expected May 2017)
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, MO
Primary Areas: Late Medieval and Early Sixteenth-Century Literature, Manuscript and Print Culture
Dissertation: Writing and Erasure in Middle English Texts and Medieval Manuscripts, 1350-1500
Committee: Ruth Evans, chair; Antony Hasler; Paul Acker
M.A. English
Saint Louis University (May 2011)
Saint Louis, MO
Thesis: Human-Animal Transformations and Medieval Notions of Humanness
Committee: Ruth Evans, chair; Antony Hasler; Georgia Johnston
B.A. English, Magna cum laude
Harlaxton College
Grantham, England (study abroad)
Eastern Illinois University (May 2009)
Charleston, IL

Late Medieval and Early Sixteenth-Century Literature and Culture | Manuscript Studies
History of the Book and Print Culture| Animal Studies | Critical Theory | Gender and Sexuality
Rhetoric and Composition

French (read, write, speak)

Old English (read)
Old French (read)
Middle English (read)
Latin (read)

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Newberry Library Travel Award, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, $125 (Fall 2016)
Donald Howard Travel Scholarship to London, New Chaucer Society, $200 (Spring 2016)
Philanthropic Education Organization Dissertation Fellowship Award, partial funding (Spring 2016)
Professional Travel Funding, Saint Louis University Department of English, $500 (Spring 2014)
Donald Howard Travel Scholarship to Iceland, New Chaucer Society, $675 (Spring 2014)
First Prize Paper, Saint Louis University Graduate Student Symposium, $200 (Spring 2014)
Edward L. and Rhelda Marbry Morgan, Ph.D., Endowed Book Fund Award, $800 (Spring 2013)
The Knapp Award for outstanding and most promising of the English Departments incoming Masters
students, $1,000 (Fall 2009)

New Acquisitions to the Medieval Manuscript Collection at Saint Louis University: A Catalogue
Manuscripta: A Journal for Manuscript Research 60.2 (2017). (forthcoming)
An Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 2013. Studies in the Age of Chaucer 37 (2015): 347-401. (contributor)
The Book of Margery Kempes Middle English Recipe: The (Un)readable Folio 124v. Journal of the Early Book
Society. (in progress)
Counterfeit Speech and Chaucers Manciples Tale. Exemplaria (in progress)

writen in his tables: Surveillance as Inscription and Erasure in Chaucer, Twentieth Biennial
International Congress of the New Chaucer Society: London, England. July 10-15, 2016.
Letters that Fly: Bird Sound in Chaucer, Nineteenth Biennial International Congress of the New
Chaucer Society: Reykjavik, Iceland. July 16-20, 2014.
Penning Chaucers Birds, Twentieth Annual Graduate Student Association Research Symposium:
Saint Louis, Missouri. April 11, 2014.
Human-Animal Transformations. Panel Organizer and Chair. 48th Annual Kalamazoo International
Medieval Congress: Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 9-12, 2013. Participants: Karl Steel, Laura
Wang, Francis Tobienne.
Image and Text in the Late Medieval Wound Man Tradition, 39 th Annual Saint Louis Conference on
Manuscript Studies: Saint Louis, Missouri. October 12-13, 2012.
"Ilz sont pour certain la viande: The Rhetoric of Hunger and Satiation in The Danse Macabre of
Women, 47th Annual Kalamazoo International Medieval Congress: Kalamazoo, Michigan.
May 11-14, 2012.
Seeing Through the Squint: Annie Dillards Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and the Space of a Medieval
Anchorhold, International Anchoritic Society ConferenceSeptember 16-18: Grand Forks,
North Dakota. September 16-18, 2011.
Forging the Female: Galenic Medical Discourse and the Destabilization of Gendered Spaces in
Guigemar, 46th Annual Kalamazoo International Medieval Congress: Society for Medieval
Feminist Scholarship (SMFS) panel. Kalamazoo, Michigan. May 11-14, 2011
This pye dothe borne: Masculine Inadequacy and Marriage in Johan Johan, Medieval and Early
Modern Studies Conference: Chapel Hill, North Carolina. February 18-19, 2011.

The New Chaucer Society (NCS) | Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) | Modern Language Association (MLA)
Medieval Academy of America (MAA)

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New Chaucer Society Bibliographer (2013-present)

Research Assistant for the Vatican Film Library (2012-2013)
Curator of Two Medieval Manuscript Exhibits:
How shal the world be served? Aspects of the Medieval Secular World, Pius XII Memorial
Library (Oct-Nov, 2012)
"Recollected Forms, Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University (February-August 2013)
Assistant Coordinator of University Writing Services (2011-2012)
Graduate Writing Center Consultant (2010-2011)
Research Assistant to Professor Vincent Casaregola (Spring 2011, Spring 2015)
Research Assistant to Professor Jonathan Sawday, Walter J. Ong, S.J., Chair in the Humanities (Fall
2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2014)

Saint Louis University

Department of English (2009-Present)
Advanced Strategies in Rhetoric and Research (English 1900)
Introduction to Literary Studies: Metamorphosis and Disguise (English 202)
Gender, Identity, and Literature (English 2550, guest lecturer)
Technology, Media, and Literature (English 2650)
Writing Consulting Across Disciplines in a Multimedia World (English 493)
Vatican Film Library Class Lecturer (Books of Hours, Manuscript Technology, Book History)
Fontbonne University
Department of English (2013)
Composition II (English 102, online course)

Ruth Evans, Dorothy McBride Orthwein Professor of English

Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63108. (314) 977-3007, revans19@slu.edu
Paul Acker, Professor of English
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63108. (314) 977-3011, ackerpl@slu.edu
Antony Hasler, Associate Professor of English
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63108. (314) 977-3513, hasleraj@slu.edu

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