The University of Iowa Department of English
Claire Sponsler

Selected Publications

Books

bookcover East of West bookcover Drama and Resistance

Ritual Imports: Performing Medieval Drama in America. Cornell University Press, 2004. (Awarded the Barnard Hewitt prize from the American Society for Theatre Research)

East of West: Cross-Cultural Performance and the Staging of Difference. With Xiaomei Chen, New York: Palgrave, 2000.

Drama and Resistance: Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England. Medieval Cultures 10. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Selected Articles

“Drama in the Archives: Recognizing Medieval Plays,” in Redefining British Theatre History, ed. Stephen Orgel and Peter Holland (Palgrave, 2004), 111-30.

“Margery Kempe: Drama and Piety,” in A Companion to Margery Kempe, ed. Katherine J. Lewis and John H. Arnold (Boydell & Brewer, 2004), 129-43.

“Text and Textiles: Lydgate’s Tapestry Poems,” in Medieval Fabrications, ed. E. Jane Burns (Palgrave, 2004), 19-34.

“The Captivity of Henry Crystede,” in Imagining a Medieval English Nation, ed. Kathy Lavezzo (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), 304-39.

“In Transit: Theorizing Cultural Appropriation in Medieval Europe,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32 (2002): 1-20. [reprinted in The Postmodern Beowulf, 2006]

“Alien Nation: London’s Aliens and Lydgate’s Mummings for the Mercers and Goldsmiths,” in The Post-Colonial Middle Ages, ed. Jeffrey J. Cohen (St. Martin’s 2000), 229-42.

“Eating Lessons: Lydgate’s ‘Dietary’ and Consumer Conduct,” in Medieval Conduct: Texts, Theories, Practices, ed. Kathleen Ashley and Robert L.A. Clark (University of Minnesota Press 2001), 1-22.

“Othered Bodies: Racial Crossdressing in the Mistere de la Sainte Hostie and the Croxton Play of the Sacrament,” with Robert L.A. Clark, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29 (1999): 61-87.

“The King’s Boyfriend: Froissart’s Political Theatre of 1326,” in Queering the Middle Ages, ed. Glenn Burger and Steven Kruger (University of Minnesota Press 2001), 143-67.

“Medieval America: Drama and Community in the English Colonies, 1580-1610,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 28 (1998): 457-82.

“Writing the Unwritten: Morris Dance and the Construction of Medieval Theatre,” Theatre Survey 38 (1997): 73-95.

“Queer Play: The Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama,” with Robert L.A. Clark, New Literary History 28 (1997): 319-44.

“Producing the Past: Modern Reconstructions of Medieval Drama,” Theatre Annual 48 (1995): 60-71.

“The Culture of the Spectator: Conformity and Resistance in Medieval Drama,” Theatre Journal 44 (1992): 15-29. [winner, Gerald Kahan prize, American Society of Theatre Research]

“Medieval Ethnography: Fieldwork in the European Past,” Assays: Critical Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts 7 (1992): 1-30.

“Narrating the Social Order: Medieval Clothing Laws,” CLIO 21 (1992): 265-83.

 

 

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