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Julie Nelson Couch

Couch, Julie

Associate Professor

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Email:  julie.couch@ttu.edu

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The Texts and Contexts of Oxford Bodleian Library MS Laud Misc_The Shaping of English Vernacular Narrative

Book

  • Couch, J., Bell, K. K. (2011). In Kimberly K. Bell and Julie Nelson Couch (Ed.), The Texts and Contexts of Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: The Shaping of English Vernacular Narrative (vol. 6, pp. xxi pp., 328 pp., 12 unpaginated figures). Leiden: Brill.

 

Book Chapters

  • Couch, J. (2011). "The Magic of Englishness in St. Kenelm and Havelok the Dane". In Kimberly K. Bell and Julie Nelson Couch (Ed.), The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: The Shaping of English Vernacular Narrative (vol. 6, pp. 223-250). Leiden: Brill.
  • Couch, J., Bell, K. K. (2011). Introduction: Reading Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 as a ‘Whole Book'. In Kimberly K. Bell and Julie Nelson Couch (Ed.), The Texts and Contexts of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: The Shaping of English Vernacular Narrative (vol. 6, pp. 1-18). Leiden: Brill.
  • Couch, J. (2009). "Death as ‘Neglect of Duty’ in Howard Pyle's The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur,". In Karen Cherewatuk and K. S. Whetter (Ed.), In The Arthurian Way of Death: The English Tradition (pp. 206-225). Cambridge: D. S. Brewer.
  • Couch, J. (2006). Misbehaving God: The Case of the Christ Child in MS Laud Misc. 108 ‘Infancy of Jesus Christ’. In Bonnie Wheeler (Ed.), Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk (pp. 31-43). New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

 

Book in Progress

  • Reading the Child in Middle English Literature (In-progress: Advance Contract with Palgrave Macmillan for the New Middle Ages Series).

 

Edition

  • “The Child Slain by Jews,” and “The Jewish Boy.” Edition and introduction. Medieval Children’s Literature. Ed. Daniel T. Kline. New York: Routledge. 2003. 204-226.

 

Articles

  • "Defiant Devotion in MS Laud Misc. 108: The Narrator of Havelok the Dane and Affective Piety," Parergon: Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 25.1 (2008) 53-79.
  • Death as 'Neglect of Duty' in Howard Pyle's The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur," in The Arthurian Way of Death: The English Tradition. Eds. Karen Cherewatuk and K. S. Whetter. Rochester: Boydell. November, 2009.
  • "The Vulnerable Hero: Havelok and the Revision of Romance," Chaucer Review 42.3 (2008) 330-352.
  • "Misbehaving God: The Case of the Christ Child in MS Laud Misc. 108 'Infancy of Jesus Christ,'" in Mindful Spirits in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Kirk (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006) 31-43.
  • “Howard Pyle’s Story of King Arthur and His Knights and the Bourgeois Boy Reader,” Arthuriana 13.2 (2003) 38-53.
  •  “Childe Hood: The Infantilization of Medieval Legend.” In Parentheses: Papers in Medieval Studies 1 (1999). 127-44.
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  • “With Due Respect: The Royal Court in Malory’s ‘The Poisoned Apple’ and ‘The Fair Maid of Astolat.’” Sir Thomas Malory: Views and Re-views. Ed. D. Thomas Hanks, Jr. New York: AMS Press, 1992. 63-77.
  • "Reading Devoutly: Havelok the Dane in the Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 108 Manuscript," (Brief Introduction). With Kimberly K. Bell. Parergon: Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 25.1 (2008) 25.

 

Reprint

  • "Childe Hood: The Infantilization of Medieval Legend." Children's Literature Review 117 (2007). 165-170.

 

Edited Journal Issue

  • Special expanded issue of Arthuriana: seventeen articles on Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, 16.2 (2006).

 

Editorial Boards

  • North American Advisory Board, Society for the Study of Christianity and Culture (2005-Present)

 

Presentations

  • Couch, J. (Presenter & Author), Forty-fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Romance Society, Kalamazoo, MI, "“I couldn’t help but wonder . . .”: Sex and the City a Medieval Romance?," International. (May 16, 2010).
  • Couch, J. (Presenter & Author), Forty-fourth International Congress on Medieval Studies, Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, "Childe Horn and Other Female Children: Pleasurable Transgression and Its Limits," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (May 7, 2009).
  • Couch, J. (Presenter & Author), Bell, K. K. (Presenter & Author), Forty-third International Congress on Medieval Studies, Early Middle English Society, Kalamazoo, MI, "Reading Oxford Bodleian MS Laud 108 as a Whole Book," International, Published Elsewhere. (May 9, 2008).
  • Couch, J. (Presenter & Author), Forty-second International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Association of the Midwest and the Society for the Study of Christianity and Culture, Kalamazoo, MI, "The Woman Swoons Alone: Sir Degaré's Forlorn Mother," International. (May 12, 2007).
  • Couch, J. (Coordinator/Organizer), Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Oxford, Mississippi, "“Where Does Hagiography End and Romance Begin? Bodies and Souls in Oxford Bodleian MS Laud Misc. 108”," Regional, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (October 2006).
  • Couch, J. (Coordinator/Organizer), 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, "“Text and Context in Bodleian Library MS Laud Misc. 108”," International, Peer Reviewed/Refereed. (May 2006).