
Ellen K. Rentz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Literature; Co-Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Office Hours
- Education
- Awards and Affiliations
- Research and Publications
Roy P. Crocker Award for Merit, 2018
Claremont Faculty Leadership Fellow, 2018-19
NEH Summer Scholar, “The Materiality of Medieval Manuscripts: Interpretation Through Production,” University of Iowa, 2015
Mayers Fellow, Huntington Library, Summer 2014
Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, Summer Research Grant, 2011
Monograph
Imagining the Parish in Late Medieval England. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015.
Edited Collections
"Manuscript Materiality in the Classroom,” a special issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 25.2 (Fall 2018): 7-121. [Co-edited with Michelle M. Sauer, University of North Dakota]
Articles
“‘Holsum to haue in memory’: An Added Tale in an English Book of Hours.” Chaucer Review 54.2 (April 2019). Forthcoming.
"Of Parchment and Pedagogy: An Introduction," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 25.2 (Fall 2018): 7-16. [co-authored with Michelle M. Sauer]
“Lines from Chaucer’s Melibee in an English book of hours, c. 1425-50.” Notes and Queries 65, no. 2 (June 2018): 172-74.
“Castles for St. William: the Late Medieval Commemoration of York’s Local Saint.” Viator 43, no. 2 (Autumn 2012): 111-29.
“Half-acre Bylaws: Harvest Sharing in Piers Plowman.” Yearbook of Langland Studies 25 (2011): 95-115.
“Representing Devotional Economy: Agricultural and Liturgical Labor in the Luttrell Psalter.” Studies in Iconography 31 (2010): 69-97.