English

Title: Associate Professor of English, Chair
Senior Faculty in Women’s Studies
LGBT Minor Coordinator

Department: English
Research Fields of Interest: Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, History of Medicine, European and Arabic Magic and Medicine
Degrees: B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Contact Info

Email: jennifer.hellwarth@allegheny.edu
Phone: (814) 332-4324

Office Info

Office Location: Oddfellows room #232

Office Hours: FALL 2012- TBA

Courses and Syllabi
Spring 2012- Sabbatical

Fall 2011
INTDS 306*00: Cultural/Evolutionary History of Sexuality Download Syllabus
English 200*00: Reading Literature Download Syllabus

Spring 2011 - Sabbatical
Fall 2010
English 385*00: Cultural History/English Language Download Syllabus
FS 101*41: Academic Discourse I  Download Syllabus

Spring 2010
ENGL 201*00: Studies in Early British Literature | » Download Syllabus

Fall 2009
ENGL 551*00: Junior Seminar | » Download Syllabus
FS 101: Modern Sexualties | » Download Syllabus

Spring 2009
ENGL 385*00: Cultural History of the English Language | » Download Syllabus
FS 102W: Sex and Gender | » Download Syllabus

Fall 2008
ENGL 311*00: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 630*00: Senior Project Seminar | » Download Syllabus

Spring 2008 (on leave)

Fall 2007 (on leave)

Spring 2007
ENGL 200*00: Approaches to Reading Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 385*00: Cultural History of the English Language | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 551*00: Junior Seminar: Magic and Transformation in Medieval Romance | » Download Syllabus

Fall 2006
ENGL 630*00: Senior Project Seminar | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 201*00: Studies in Early British Literature | » Download Syllabus
FS 101*00: Modern Sexualities | » Download Syllabus

Spring 2006
ENGL 200*00: Approaches to Reading Literature | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 415*00: Topics in the Middle Ages: Masculine and Feminine Bodies | » Download Syllabus
INTDS 180*00: Princes and Paupers, 1381 | » Download Syllabus

Fall 2005
ENGL 211*00: Women and Literature: Medieval Women Writers of Asia and Europe | » Download Syllabus
FS 101: Modern Sexualities | » Download Syllabus
WS 101: Introduction to Women’s Studies | » Download Syllabus

Publications

Books

• Hellwarth, Jennifer.The Reproductive Unconscious in Medieval and Early Modern England. New York: Routledge, 2003.*

Essays

• Hellwarth, Jennifer. Afterword for Printing and Parenting in Early Modern England. Douglas Brooks, ed. Ashgate Press. 2005. *
• Entry on Lucy Hutchinson.Encyclopaedia of Women’s Autobiography. Victoria Boynton and Jo Malin, eds. Greenwood Press. 2005.
• “‘I wyl wright of prevy sekenes’: Imagining Female Literacy and Textual Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Midwifery Manuals.”Critical Survey , Summer 2002 (Vol.14, n.1), 44-63. Special Issue on Early Modern Literacies/Identities. Guest editors, Margaret W. Ferguson and Eve Sanders. *
• “’be unto me as a precious ointment’: Lady Grace Mildmay: Sixteenth-Century Female Practitioner” in Dynamis. International Journal of the History of Science and Medicine. Special Issue on “Women and Health: Practices and Knowledges.” June 1999 (Vol.19) 95-117.

Conference Papers

• “Social Purity, Individual Transgression: Magic and Nationhood in Chretien de Troyes’ Cligés. Panel on “Purity and Transgression” session sponsored by the Societas Magica. International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, (May 2009).
• “Floating Beauty: Magic and the Female Sexual and Saintly Body in Emaré.” Panel on “Sexy Floating Hybrid Zombies: The Women of Chaucer, Apollonius, and Emaré.” Medieval Association of the Pacific (March 2009).
• Invited Speaker: “Sex, Salves and Matters of State in Chrétien de Troyes’ Cligés.” UC Santa Barbara Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Colloquium: “Disciplining Texts” (February 2008).
• “Sexual Healing: Charms, Potions, and the Female Healer Managing the Sexual Body in The Romance of Tristan and Yseut.” International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, (May 2006).
• “materia medica/materia magica: Managing the Anglo Saxon Sexual Body through Charms, Penitentials, and the early English Apollonius of Tyre.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (November 2004).
• “Performing Maternities.” Seminar Participant at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference. Kathryn Moncreif and Kathryn McPherson, organizers (April 2003).
• “Playing Pregnancy: Social Practices and the Dramatic Representation of Childbirth in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.” UCSB Early Modern Center Conference: “Bodies, Bawdies, and Nobodies”: Early Modern Women, 1500-1800 (February 2003).
• “Imagining Female Textual Communities: Medical Literacy and Social Class in Medieval Midwifery Manuals,” International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 2002).
• “Let your loines be girt about, and your lampes burn clearly”: Imagining Female Literacy and Textual Communities in Thomas Bentley’s Monument of Matrones,” Renaissance Society of America and Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Joint Annual Meeting (April 2002).
• Literacies/Identities in Early Modern England. Workshop at the Shakespeare Association of America. Eve Sanders and Margaret Ferguson, organizers (April 2001).

Awards

• Teacher-Scholar Professorship of the Humanities. (2009)
• Thoburn Foundation Teaching Award. (2005)