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Jamie Keener (she/hers)

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Contact Information

English Building, Room 220

Office Hours

Fall 2023: Tuesday 2-3 PM
PhD Student, Literary and Medieval Studies

Research Interests

Middle English, Premodern Race and Ethnic Studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Fairy

Education

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; English; AM'21

University of Chicago; English Language and Literature; AB'17

Awards and Honors

List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

Martha W. and Richard Melman Fellowship, 2019-2020

Courses Taught

As Instructor of Record:
  • ENGL 216: Legends of King Arthur (crosslisted CWL 216, MDVL 216)
  • INFO 303: Writing Across Media (crosslisted WRIT 303)
  • BTW 250: Principles of Business Communication
  • RHET 105: Writing and Research
As Teaching Assistant:
  • ENGL 209: Early British Literature and Culture

Additional Campus Affiliations

Program in Medieval Studies
  • Medieval Movie Knights (co-organized with Meg Cornell and Modje Taavon)
Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
  • Research Assistant

Recent Publications

  • “Entry #15: Sir John Mandeville.” Catalogue entry. In Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Pre-Modern World. ed. Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey. ACMRS Press, April 2023. asu.pressbooks.pub/seeing-race-before-race/. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title, organized by and presented at the Newberry Library, September 2023.
Conference Papers and Workshops
  • "Language Learning and the Pedagogy of Play." Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement and Education (BRIDGE). University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, May 14-21, 2023.
  • “Remaking, Rereading, Renaming: Mixed-Race Identity in Sir Gowther.” Gesa E. Kirsch Graduate Student Symposium, The Center for Writing Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, April 27-28, 2023.
  • “Making Mermaids: Early Modern (Re)writings of Eve and Mary.” Center for Renaissance Studies. Attending to Women, 1100-1800: Performance, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, September 30 – October 1, 2022. (Co-led with Cassidy Short)
  • “Race in Fairy Descent: Mélusine and her Afterlives.” Center for Fantasy and the Fantastic, Once and Future Fantasies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, July 13-17, 2022.
  • “Fairy Fruit in India and the British Isles: Mandeville’s Orientalist Mirroring in the Cotton Manuscript.” 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-14, 2022.
  • “Recognizing Race through Sir Orfeo’s Uncanny Fairy Other.” Medieval Studies Student Association, Redefining the Middle Ages, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, March 11-12, 2021.
  • “The Constance of Race: Religious Racialization in The Man of Law's Tale.” New England Medieval Studies Consortium, Illuminating Hidden Figures: Difference and Diversity in the Middle Ages, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 16-17, 2018.