Publications

Fiction
Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife.  Winchester, UK: Top Hat Books, 2015.

Monographs

The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics. NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England: Private Piety as Public Performance. London: Routledge, 2000.

Edited Book

Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature and Growing Up in Wartime America. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013. Ed. Susan Signe Morrison. By Joan Wehlen Morrison. Named by the Bank Street College of Education to the Best Children’s Book of the Year 2013 list (Memoir: Ages 14 & up).

Articles and Chapters in Books: Selected

“Waste Aesthetics:Form as Restitution.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 20.3 (2013):1-15.

“Writing a Diary – on Paper.” This I Believe. October 21, 2011. http://thisibelieve.org/essay/106619/

“Waste Space: Pilgrim Badges, Ophelia, and Walsingham Remembered.” Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity: Landscape, Sexuality, and Cultural Memory. Eds. Gary Waller and Dominic Janes. London: Ashgate, 2010: 49-66.

“Pilgrimage to Walsingham.” The English Parish Church Through the Centuries. Interactive CD-Rom. 1st Edition. Editor: Dee Dyas. The University of York/St John’s Nottingham/English Heritage, 2010.

“Scholarship on Literary Pilgrimage” and “Theory and Pilgrimage.” The Brill Encyclopedia of Pilgrimage. Gen. Ed. Larissa Taylor. 2009: 670-1; 752-4.

“Disabling the Medieval: The Excremental Middle Ages.” In Rubbish, Waste and Litter: Culture and Its Refuse/als. Ed. Tadeusz Rachwal. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo SWPS Academica, 2008: 113-121.

“Exkremente im Spannungsfeld von Privatsphäre und öffentlichem Raum.” In TABU – Über den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Ekel und Scham. Trans. Uta Romer. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2008: 57-73.

 “Pilgrimage, Gender, and Theory. Where are the Women Pilgrimage Poets of the Fourteenth Century?” Femmes et pèlerinages/Women and Pilgrimages. Juliette Dor and Marie-Élisabeth Henneau, eds. Sezemice, Czech Republic: Compostela Group of Universities/Le Groupe Compostelle des Universités, 2007:141-152.

“Eleanor of Scotland” and “Pilgrims and Pilgrimage.” Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. Margaret Schaus, ed. London: Routledge, 2006.

“Women and Pilgrimage.” Pilgrims and Pilgrimage. Journey, Spirituality & Daily Life Through the Centuries. CD-Rom. Dee Dyas, ed. Christianity & Culture at St John’s College, Nottingham and the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 2006.

“Surveying Students’ Reactions to Theory in a Medieval Women Writers Course.” Medieval Feminist Forum 37 (2004): 27-30.

“Langland and the Luxury of Gender: The Merchant’s Tale and Piers Plowman B.IX.” With Joan Baker. In William Langland’s Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays. Kathleen M. Hewett-Smith, ed. New York: Routledge, 2001: 41-67. Reprinted from The Yearbook of Langland Studies 12 (1998): 31-63.

“Unnatural Authority: The Heroic Tradition and The Wife’s Lament.” Medievalia et Humanistica 27 (2000): 19-31.

“The Uses of Biography in Medieval Literary Criticism: The Case of Geoffrey Chaucer and Cecily Chaumpaigne.” The Chaucer Review 34 (1999): 69-86.

“Introduction: Medieval Children’s Literature.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 23 (1998): 2-6. Guest-editor of Special Issue: Medieval Children’s Literature.

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: The Wife of Bath and Vernacular Translations.” Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 8.1 (1996): 97-123.

 “Women Writers and Women Rulers: Rhetorical and Political Empowerment in the Fifteenth-Century.” Women In German Yearbook 9 (1994): 25-48.

“The Feminization of the German Democratic Republic in Political Cartoons 1989-1990.” Journal of Popular Culture 25 (1991): 35-52.

“Morgan le Fay’s Champion: Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Mists of Avalon as Challenge to Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur.” Mittelalter-Rezeption IV: Medien, Politik, Ideologie, Ökonomie. Irene von Burg, Jürgen Kühnel, Ulrich Müller, Alexander Schwarz, eds. Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 1991: 133-154.

“A Feminist Reader-Response to Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival: The Position of the Female Reader.” Lesarten: New Methodologies and Old Texts. Otto Keller and Alexander Schwarz, eds. Bern: Peter Lang, 1990: 125-140.

“An Introduction to Feminist Literary Theory” with Dr. Christel Wagener. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 38 (1990): 315-330.

“Loss of Virginity: Cinematic Spectacle of Genre and Gender in an American Romance.” Rostocker Forschungen zur Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft 6, 1989: 52-53.

“Displaced Rivalry in Hartmann von Aue’s Iwein.” Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 25(1986):45-62.