Maud McInerney

Associate Professor of English

Biography

I attended the University of Toronto from 1982-1986, earning a B.A. in English and Latin, and then the University of California at Berkeley, where I earned my M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. During my first ten years at Haverford, my research focused on medieval conceptions of gender, masculine as well as feminine; my book, Eloquent Virgins from Thecla to Joan of Arc came out in 2003. I am presently at work on a project dealing with medieval depictions of the Troy legend. I am particularly attracted to interdisciplinary studies which move between religion, literary criticism and art history. These interests are reflected both in my research and in the courses I have taught here at Haverford.

Research

Recent activities:
In July of 2008, I organized and chaired a panel on Arthurian Geographies at the International Arthurian Congress in Rennes, France.
In 2005, I was guest editor of Arthuriana's special issue on Teaching Arthurian Materials (Arthuriana 15:4). I've been teaching a course on King Arthur at Haverford for more than ten years.

Publications include:

Eloquent Virgins from Thecla to Joan of Arc. New York: Palgrave Press, 2003.

“Virgin Martyrs.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Medieval Women , eds. Susan Mosher Stuard and Margaret Schaus. Routledge, 2006.

“Malory’s Lancelot and the Lady Huntress.” On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler and Fiona Tolhurst. Dallas: Scriptorium Press, 2001

"Rhetoric, Power and Integrity in the Passion of the Virgin Martyr." Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ed. Kathleen Kelley and Marina Leslie. Newark: University of Delaware Press: 1999.

Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays. Ed. Maud Burnett McInerney .Garland Publishing, 1998.

'"Is this a Mannes Herte?' Troilus' Trouble with Ovid." Masculinities in Chaucer, ed. Peter Beidler. Boydell and Brewer, 1997.

"'In the Meydens Womb': Julian of Norwich and the Poetics of Enclosure." Medieval Mothering, eds. John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler. Garland Publishing, 1996 rpt.1999.

"Opening the Oyster: Pearls in Pearl." Aestel I (1993).