Faculty
Mimi Ensley
Assistant Professor
Professional Profile
Dr. Mimi Ensley specializes in medieval and early modern English literature. She’s especially interested in how late medieval texts were read and re-produced across time. Her current book project, Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance approaches this question from a book historical perspective and asks how Middle English romances were used and understood after the Protestant Reformation in England.
Research
Education:
- PhD in English, University of Notre Dame
- MA in Medieval Literatures, University of York
- BA in English and Journalism, University of Georgia
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
- Correction, Modernization, and Elaboration in a Seventeenth-Century Translation of John Lydgates Troy Book.” Studies in Philology. Forthcoming.
- Profitable” Gower: Commonplacing and the Early Modern Confessio Amantis.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology. Forthcoming.
- Meeting Lydgates Ghost: Building Medieval History in Seventeenth-Century England.” Review of English Studies 71 (251-271).
- Framing Chaucer's Plowman.” Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (331-49).
- Reading Chaucer in the Tower: The Person Behind the Pen in an Early-Modern Copy of Chaucers Works.” Journal of the Early Book Society 18 (136-57)
Works in Progress:
- Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance (Monograph in Progress)
Selected Conference Presentations:
- Found Out, and Brought to Light: A Non-Spenserian Completion of Chaucer's Squire's Tale.” 22nd Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Durham U. (Forthcoming, July 2022)
- The Romance of Piers Plowman: Reading William Langland after Walter Scott.” Southeastern Medieval Association. Wofford College. (Forthcoming, November 2021)
- Discussant in Teaching Medieval Topics beyond the Seminar Table” Roundtable. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. (May 2021)
- It Debunked all of my Expectations: Pre-Modern Materiality and the Composition Classroom.” Pedagogy and the Premodern. Duke U. (March 2020)
- Creating a Humanist Gower in Print.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago. (January 2019)
- Inscribing the Tradition: A Recusant Catholic's Romance Manuscripts.” 21st Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. U. of Toronto. (July 2018)
- Monuments, Memory, and Patronage in Lydgate's Guy of Warwick.’” 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan U. (May 2018)
- Manuscript, Romance, and the Visual Language of Print.” Bibliography Among the Disciplines. Rare Book School, Philadelphia. (October 2017)
More Information
Office Hours: (On Campus)
- Monday: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
- Tuesday: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
- Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
- Thursday: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM