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Saint Charles, IL 60174
[email protected]ashleyott.org
Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. English (expected Fall 2017)
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, MO
Primary Areas: English, Medieval Studies
Dissertation: Writing and Erasure in Middle English Texts and Medieval Manuscripts, 1350-1500
Committee: Ruth Evans, chair; Jonathan Sawday; 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
Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Art, and Culture |Chaucer | Manuscript Studies
History of the Book and Print Culture| Classical Mythology |Digital Humanities
Rhetoric and Composition | Professional Writing
Saint Louis University
Department of English (2009-2016)
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)
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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 Director 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)
Inspiring Excellence in the Classroom Award, student nominated (Spring 2015)
Philanthropic Education Organization Dissertation Fellowship Award, partial funding (Spring 2016)
Newberry Library Travel Award, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Fall 2016)
Brennan Award for Dissertation Research Abroad, Graduate Student Association, $2,000 (Spring 2016)
Donald Howard Travel Scholarship to London, New Chaucer Society (Spring 2016)
Donald Howard Travel Scholarship to Iceland, New Chaucer Society (Spring 2014)
First Prize Paper, Saint Louis University Graduate Student Symposium (Spring 2014)
Edward L. and Rhelda Marbry Morgan, Ph.D., Endowed Book Fund Award (Spring 2013)
The Knapp Award, most promising incoming Masters Student, $1,000 (Fall 2009)
The Unreadable Book of Margery Kempe. Edinburgh History of Reading: A World Survey from Antiquity to the
Present. (chapter accepted)
Missing Pages in Anthony Wydevilles Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers in Manuscript and Print.
Texts and Contexts Conference (Columbus, Ohio, October 20-21, 2017) proposal submitted
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 Conference (Grand Forks, North Dakota,
September 16-18, 2011).
Forging the Female: Galenic Medical Discourse and the Destabilization of Gendered Spaces in
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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).
Proficient Reading Ability: Old and Middle English, Latin, French
Reading Ability: Old and Middle French
The New Chaucer Society (NCS) | Illinois Medieval Association (IMA) | Modern Language Association (MLA)
Medieval Academy of America (MAA)
Ruth Evans, Dorothy McBride Orthwein Professor of English
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63108. (314) 977-3007,
[email protected]Paul Acker, Professor of English
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63108. (314) 977-3011,
[email protected]Jonathan Sawday, Professor of English
Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO 63108. (314) 977-7196,
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