Sarah Harlan-Haughey
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Research and Teaching Interests
I am a medievalist with an interest in literature and the environment. I write about outlaws, landscape, and memory. After receiving my PhD in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2011, I have been teaching graduates and undergraduates at UMaine. Teaching and research interests include:
Middle English literature, Old English literature, Medieval Scandinavian literature, Literature and the Environment/Ecocriticism, History of the English Language, Medieval/Early Modern Performance Studies, North Atlantic Multiculturalism, Folklore/ Oral Tradition, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Medieval continental Literature, Early Modern Literature
Courses Taught
Graduate Seminar in Gender and Literature: “Ecocriticism”
Major Genres: Sagas
Graduate Medieval Literature Seminar: Fin de siecle Medievalisms
Graduate Medieval Literature Seminar: King Arthur in Middle English
Chaucer and Medieval Literature
Foundations of Literary Analysis
Global Medieval Romance
Ecocriticism
Middle English Romance
Medieval Literature
Graduate Seminar: Chaucer’s fictions of Gender
The Nature of Story
Arthurian Literature
Texts and Contexts: The Viking Saga
Robin Hood and other Outlaws
Graduate Seminar: Middle English Language and Literature in Context
Literature and the Environment
Honors Civilizations 111, 112, 211, 212
Dragonslayers from Beowulf to Wagner, Tolkien and Beyond
Medieval Narrative
Shakespeare
Graduate Seminar: Reading Nature in Medieval England
Shakespeare Seminar
Gods, Heroes and Monsters: Medieval Celtic Literature
Beyond the Round Table: Arthurian Literature, Medieval and Beyond
Body, Mind, Health: Perspectives for Future Medical Professionals
Under the Greenwood Tree: The Robin Hood Legend, from Medieval to Modern
Midsummer Night’s Weirdness: Seasonal Literature in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
The Personal Essay
Medieval Romance: Voyages to the Otherworld
Works in Progress
Books
Layamon’s Necropoetics: Death, Landscape, and Poetry in the Brut. Peer-reviewed book proposal accepted; the volume is under contract with the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies, an imprint of Liverpool University Press.
The Outlaw Code: Late Medieval Outlaws and Virtual Reality. Book project in progress.
Frontier Medievalisms: Essays from the Roundup. Edited volume in progress.
Articles
“Ketil Hængs Saga, The Specter of the Whale, and the Fate of Fisheries”
“Spare not the Venison: Machismo and Conspicuous Consumption in the Late Medieval Rymes of Robin Hood”.
“Haliurunnas, Helrunan, and Grendel’s mother: miscegenation and the unbearable loneliness of Trollwomen” Co-written with Thomas D. Hill.
“Low Visibility: “wikkit wedere” and the contest of knowledge in The Taill of Rauf Coilȝear”
“Ketil Hængs Saga, The Specter of the Whale, and the Fate of Fisheries”
“Walking White Whales: Middle Scots Nonsense Verse and the Cables of Being”
Education
M.A. Medieval Studies (Cornell University) 2008
B.A. Spanish and English Literature (University of Montana) 2005

