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 Sarah Beckwith
Marcello Lotti Professor of English and Professor of Religion and Professor and Chair of Theater Studies
Office Location: 205 Bivins Building
Office Phone: (919) 660-3342, (919) 660-3350
Email Address: sarah.beckwith@duke.edu
Teaching (Spring, 2010):
- Medren 100.01, Medieval drama
- Bivins 114, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
- Theatrst 129.01, Medieval drama
Synopsis
- Bivins 114, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
- English 173.02, Medieval drama
Synopsis
- Bivins 114, MW 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays 2:00 - 4:00pm and/or
by appointment by email
- Education:
- Ph.D., King's College, London University
B.A. with Honors, Oxford University
- Specialties:
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Medieval Literature
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Sarah Beckwith works on late medieval
religious writing. She is particularly interested
in middle English religious writing in its fully
cultural dimensions and in the intersections of
writing and religious practice. She has
published on Margery Kempe, the literature of
anchoritism, medieval theatre and
sacramental culture, in numerous essay
collections and journals such as the South
Atlantic Quarterly and Exemplaria. Her book,
Christ's Body: Identity, Religion and Society in
Medieval English Writing was published by
Routledge in 1993. Her book, Signifying God:
Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's
Play of Corpus Christi was published by the
University of Chicago Press in the summer of
2001. She is currently working on a book on medieval and Renaissance drama
centering on Shakespeare and the transformation of sacramental culture.
The book is tentatively entitled The Mind's Retreat from the Face.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in York's Play of Corpus Christi. U of Chicago P, 2001, Paperback ed. 2003.
- Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings. Routledge, 1996.
- JMEMS. Jan. 2003
- with D. Aers, eds.. Sacrifice: Medieval and Early Modern. JMEMS, special issue 31.3
(Fall, 2001).
- The Cultural Work of Medieval Theatre: Ritual Practice in England 1350-1600. JMEMS, special issue 29.1
(Winter, 1999).
- Catholicism and Catholicity: Eucharistic Communities in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Modern Theology 15.2
(Mar. 1999). (based on conference being held at Duke, April 17-19, under auspices of the Homeland Foundation)
- "Stephen Greenblatt's Hamlet and the Forms of Oblivion." JMEMS
(Jan. 2003)
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- "Absent Presences: Resurrection Theatre in York." Festschrift for Derek Pearsall. Ed. D. Aers, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer.
2000.
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