Jill C. Havens
Dr.
Jill C. Havens, Assistant Professor of English, received her
Ph.D. from the University of Oxford in England. Her areas of expertise
include Middle English secular and religious literature (including Chaucer,
Gower, Langland, the Pearl-Poet, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe),
Medieval culture and history, Lollard texts and history, and palaeography.
Forthcoming publications include:
- “A Curious Erasure in Walsingham’s Short Chronicle and the Politics of Heresy.” Fourteenth Century England II. Ed. Chris Given-Wilson (Rochester: Boydell and Brewer, 2002).
- An Edition of the Middle English Texts of Booklet 3 of University College MS 97. Middle English Texts (Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag C. Winter). Spring 2003
- Lollards and Their Influence in Late Medieval England. Co-edited with Derrick Pitard and Fiona Somerset (Rochester, Boydell and Brewer). Spring 2003
- “As Englishe is comoun langage to oure puple: The Lollards and Their Imagined English Community.” Imagining a Medieval English Community. Ed. Kathy Lavezzo (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press). Spring 2003
- “A Narrative of Faith: Middle English Devotional Anthologies and Religious Practice.” Telling Stories: The Book and the Art of Narrative, 1350-1550. Eds. Margaret Connolly and Samantha Mullaney.
Dr. Havens is also founder of the Lollard Society, which provides a forum for scholars and students working in the field of Lollardy and Wycliffism. For more information, visit the Lollard Society website.