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STEPHEN K. WRIGHT

Department of English
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064
(202) 319-5488
wrights@cua.edu

Education

  • Indiana University, Ph.D. (Comparative Literature), 1984
  • Indiana University, Certificate in Medieval Studies, 1978
  • Indiana University, M.A. (Comparative Literature), 1978
  • University of York, B.Phil. (Mediaeval Studies), 1977
  • University of Freiburg, Institut fuer lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters / Altdeutsches Seminar, 1972-73
  • Texas Christian University, B.A., summa cum laude, University Honors and Departmental Honors (English and German), 1972

Academic Appointments

  • Ordinary Professor of English, Catholic University of America, 1998-present
  • Visiting Professor of English, Liaoning Normal University (Dalian, China), 2008-2009
  • Visiting Professor of English, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland), 2002
  • Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Amsterdam, 1996, 2000
  • Associate Professor of English, Catholic University of America, 1987-98
  • Assistant Professor of English, Catholic University of America, 1982-87
  • Teaching Assistant (Comparative Literature), Indiana University, 1976-78
  • Instructor (English), University of Freiburg, 1973
  • Instructor (German), Texas Christian University, 1969-72

Publications

Books

  • The Vengeance of Our Lord: Medieval Dramatizations of the Destruction of Jerusalem, Studies and Texts, 89 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1989).

    • Reviewed in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review, 12 (1989), 16; Speculum, 65 (1990), 1085-87; Modern Language Review, 85 (19990), 676-79; Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 89 (1990), 537-40; Comparative Drama, 24 (1990), 191-92; Medioevo Latino, 12 (1991), 614; Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 13 (1991), 259-62; Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 104 (1991), 265-66; Medium AEvum, 61 (1992), 347-48; Germanisch-Romanische Monatschrift, 41 (1991), 113-15; Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 6 (1993), 283-86; Mediaevistik, 7 (1994), 488-89.

  • Medieval German Drama: Four Plays in Translation (The Thuringian Easter Play, The Thuringian Corpus Christi Play, The Muhlhausen Play of St. Catherine, Dietrich Schernberg's Play of Lady Jutta), translated with an introduction and commentary by Stephen K. Wright, with a note on the music by Stephen K. Wright and Keith Glaeske. Early European Drama in Translation Series, Vol. 4. Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 2003.

General Editor, Early European Drama in Translation

  • Arnoul Greban, The Mystery of the Passion: The Third Day, translated by Paula Giuliano, Early European Drama in Translation Series, Vol. 1. Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 1996.
  • Antichrist and Judgment Day: The Middle French "Jour du Jugement," translated by Richard K. Emmerson and David F. Hult, with a note on the music by Keith Glaeske. Early European Drama in Translation Series, Vol. 2. Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 1998.
  • Medieval Dutch Drama: Four Secular Plays and Four Farces from the Van Hulthem Manuscript, translated by Johanna C. Prins. Early European Drama in Translation Series , Vol. 3. Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 1999.
  • Medieval German Drama: Four Plays in Translation, translated by Stephen K. Wright, with a note on the music by Stephen K. Wright and Keith Glaeske. Early European Drama in Translation Series , Vol. 4. Asheville, NC: Pegasus Press, 2003.
  • Judith and Holofernes: A Late Fifteenth-Century Mystery Play, translated by Graham Runnalls. Early European Drama in Translation Series, Vol. 5. Asheville, NS: Pegasus Press, 2003.

Articles

  • "The Durham Play of Mary and the Poor Knight: Sources and Analogues of a Lost English Miracle Play," Comparative Drama, 17 (1983), 254-65; reprinted in Drama in the Middle Ages: Comparative and Critical Essays, ed. Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe (New York: AMS Press, 1991), pp. 168-79.
  • "Provenance and Manuscript Tradition of the Martyrium Ricardi Archiepiscopi," Manuscripta, 28 (1984), 92-102.
  • Scribal Error and Textual Integrity: The Case of Innsbruck Universitaetsbibliothek Cod. 960," Studies in Bibliography, 39 (1986), 79-92.
  • "Gower's Geta and the Sin of Supplantation," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 87 (1986), 211-217.
  • "Paradigmatic Ambiguity and Monastic Historiography: The Case of Clement Maidestone's Martyrium Ricardi Archiepiscopi," Studia Monastica, 28 (1986), 311-42.
  • "The Historie of King Edward the Fourth: A Chronicle Play on the Coventry Pageant Wagons," Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 3 (1986), 69-82.
  • "History of an Audience: Eustache Marcade's La Vengance Jhesucrist in the Light of Reception Theory," Fifteenth-Century Studies, 12 (1987), 195-207.
  • "The Oldest Swedish Play: Source, Structure, and Staging of the De uno peccatore qui promeruit gratiam," Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 87 (1988), 49-72.
  • "Jankyn's Boethian Learning in the Summoner's Tale," English Language Notes, 26 (1988), 4-7.
  • "The Manuscript of Sanctus Tewdricus: Rediscovery of a 'Lost Miracle Play' from St. Omers," Studies in Bibliography, 42 (1989), 236-45.
  • "Records of Early French Drama in Parisian Notary Registers," Comparative Drama, 24 (1990), 232-54.
  • "The York Creed Play in Light of the Innsbruck Playbook of 1391," Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 5 (1991), 27-54.
  • "Is the Ashmole Fragment a Remnant of a Middle English Saint Play?," Neophilologus, 75 (1991), 139-49.
  • "The Painted Lion: Teaching the 1390s to the 1990s," CEA [College English Association] Magazine, 5 (1992), 5-20.
  • "Iconographic Contexts of the Swedish De uno peccatore qui promeruit gratiam," in Medieval Drama on the Continent of Europe [special issue of Comparative Drama, vol. 27], ed. Clifford Davidson and John H. Stroupe (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 1993), pp. 4-16, 8 plates.
  • "St. Erkenwald and Quem Quaeritis: A Reconsideration," English Language Notes, 31 (1994), 29-34.
  • "The Ingressus Pilatus Chant in Medieval German Drama," Comparative Drama, 28 (1994), 348-66.
  • "The Play of the King of Egypt: An Early Thirteenth-Century Music-Drama in the Carmina Burana Manuscript," Allegorica: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature, 16 (1995), 47-71.
  • "The Betrayer's Art: Translating Medieval Drama for Modern Readers," Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 35 (1996), 85-96.
  • "Drama," in Medieval Latin Studies: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide, ed. F. A. C. Mantello and A. G. Rigg (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1996), pp. 574-81.
  • "Historical Inscription and Confessional Erasure in the Parlement of the Thre Ages," Fifteenth-Century Studies, 23 (1996), 1-12.
  • "Was There a Twelfth-Century Creed Play at St. Emmeram?" Medieval English Theatre, 18 (1996), 74-84.
  • "Religious Drama, Civic Ritual, and the Police: The Semiotics of Public Safety in Late Medieval Germany," Theatre Annual: A Journal of Performance Studies, 51 (1998), 1-14.
  • "Joseph as Mother, Jutta as Pope: Gender and Transgression in Medieval German Drama," Theatre Journal, 51 (1999), 146-166.
  • [with James Stokes] "The Donington Cast List: Tradition and Innovation in Parish Drama in Early Elizabethan Lincolnshire," Early Theatre, 2 (1999), 63-95.
  • "Two Medieval German Christmas Plays from the Erlau Manuscript," Allegorica: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature, 21 (2000), 45-91.
  • "The Destruction of Jerusalem: An Annotated Checklist of Plays and Performances, ca. 1350-1620," Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama, 41 (2002), 131-56.
  • "The Tyrolean Play of David and Goliath (Bozen, 1515): Tradition, Text, Translation," European Medieval Drama, 8 (2004): 51-89.
  • Articles for the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert Bjork (Oxford: OUP, forthcoming 2008): "Boner, Ulrich," "Drama: Liturgical, Mystery, Miracle, Morality," "Dreikonigsspiele," "Freidank," "Hugo von Trimberg," "Reinmar von Zweter," "Rothe, Johannes," "Wernher von Elmendorf," "Ysengrimus."
  • "What's So 'English' About Early English Drama? An East Anglian Miracle Play and Its Continental Counterpart," in To Make His Englissh Sweete Upon His Tongue, ed. Marcin Krygier and Liliana Sikorska, Medieval English Mirror 3 (Frankfurt a. M; New York: Peter Lang, 2007), 71-91.
  • "Genres of Sanctity: Literary Representations of Archbishop Richard Scrope," in Richard Scrope: Archbishop, Rebel, Martyr, ed. Jeremy Goldberg (Donington, UK: Watkins, 2007), 114-138.
  • "Wrangling Livestock, Dragons, and Children: Pragmatic Stagecraft and Its Thematic Consequences in The Augsburg St. George Play (c. 1486)," Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama (forthcoming 2008)

Translations and Reviews

  • Translation of Manfred Pelz, "The Function of Interior Monologue in 'The Renegade'," in Essays on Camus's "Exile and the Kingdom", ed. Judith Suther (University, Miss.: Romance Monographs, 1982), pp. 189-203.
  • Review of The Mary Play of the N.town Manuscript, ed. Peter Meredith, in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review, 11 (1988), 9-13.
  • Review of Hans Sachs: Nine Carnival Plays, tr. Randall W. Listerman, in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review, 14 (1992), 80-81.
  • Review of Early Cambridge Theatres: College, University, and Town Stages, 1464-1720, by Alan H. Nelson, in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review, 19 (1997), 112-115.
  • Review of A New History of Early English Drama, ed. John D. Cox and Scott Kastan, in Comparative Drama, 32 (1998-99), 581-586.
  • Review of The Sequence of the Sacrament at Durham, by John McKinnell, in Early Drama, Art, and Music Review, 23 (2001), 126-30.
Work in Progress
  • The Erlau Playbook: Five Medieval German Plays: Translations with an introduction and commentary.
Websites

Creation and maintenance of websites (including text, graphics, and hyperlinks to related Internet pages):

COURSES TAUGHT (1982-present)

  • Undergraduate
    Literature and Composition; The Christian Tradition: Charlemagne to Chaucer (Honors Seminar); Masterpieces of World Literature; Medieval English Literature; Arthurian Literature and Film; Children's Literature; Literature of Travel and Exploration; Chaucer I and II; Plays of Shakespeare; Tradition of English Tragedy; Junior Tutorial in Medieval Studies; Intensive Readings in Drama; History of Western Drama; Senior Seminar (English and American Drama); Senior Seminar (Eugene O'Neill); Senior Seminar (The Arthurian Tradition)
  • Graduate
    Introduction to Medieval Studies (team teaching); Chaucer's Canterbury Tales; Chaucer's Troilus and Minor Poems; Medieval English Drama; Medieval European Drama; Medieval Romance; Proseminar in Middle English; The Romance Tradition; Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Poetry; Medieval Women Writers; European Novels of Adultery; History of Poetics from Antiquity to the Renaissance (team teaching); Civic Ceremony in Medieval York (seminar); The Pearl Manuscript (seminar); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Modern Critical Theory (seminar); M.A. thesis guidance; Ph.D. dissertation guidance

ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMITTEE, AND EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

  • Plenary Speaker, Delaware Valley Medieval Association (Philadelphia, 2007)
  • Plenary Speaker, Medieval English Studies Symposium (Poznan, Poland, 2005)
  • Plenary Speaker, Fifteenth-Century Studies Conference (York U.K., 2005)
  • CUA Faculty Research Grant-in-Aid (Germany, 2004)
  • Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, Adam Mickwiewicz University (Poznan, Poland), 2002
  • Nominated by Catholic University to be District of Columbia Professor of the Year (2002)
  • Martin Stevens Award (MRDS) for Best Essay in Early Drama Studies (2000)
  • Bruno Damiani Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching (1998)
  • Co-recipient, Magi Endowment Grant for Religion and the Arts (1998)
  • Plenary Speaker, Catholic Record Society (Oxford, 1993)
  • Catholic University Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, 1989
  • Co-recipient of NEH curriculum development grant for interdisciplinary humanities seminar, 1986-87
  • Fulbright Graduate Fellowship (England), 1975-76
  • Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship (Indiana), 1973-80
  • Rotary International Graduate Fellowship (Germany), 1972-73
  • Phi Beta Kappa, 1972
  • M. E. Sadler National Merit Scholarship, 1968-72

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ACTIVITIES

  • Modern Language Association
  • Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (member of MRDS Council, 1990-94)
  • Phi Beta Kappa (chapter secretary; triennial council teller)
  • International Congress on Medieval Studies (participation since 1985 as session organizer; presider; respondent; presenter)

LANGUAGES

  • Old and Middle English
  • Old and Middle High German; Modern German
  • Classical and Medieval Latin
  • Middle French; Modern French
  • Modern Dutch (reading ability)
  • Polish (elementary survival skills)



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