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fRANCES Mc CORMACK

Frances McCormack read for her BA degree in English and Theology in Maynooth from 1997-2000, and she completed her MA at UCD in 2001.  She moved to Trinity College Dublin to pursue a PhD, where she received a Government of Ireland Scholarship from the IRCHSS for the duration of her studies.  After completing her PhD in 2003, she took a position as Faculty of Arts Fellow in UCD, and moved to NUIG in 2004.  She holds an MA in Academic Practice, a Diploma in Irish, and a Diploma in Spanish from the National University of Ireland Galway.  She has won the University’s President’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2009-2010), as well as NAIRTL’s National Award for Excellence in Teaching (2011).  She is currently the Vice-Dean of Learning and Assessment in the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies.

 Research Interests:

·         Chaucer

·         Graham Greene

·         Wycliffism and Lollardy

·         Mystical writings

·         Anticlericalism

·         Penitential writings, especially with regard to the theme of compunction

·         Political and religious writings in Old and Middle English

·         J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth

Frances welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students on any of the above, as well as all aspects of Old and Middle English language and literature.

Teaching:

Poetry
Literary History
Medieval Drama
Old English Language and Literature
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Piers Plowman
Hiberno-English
The History of the English Language 

Selected Publications :

Monographs
Chaucer and the Culture of Dissent: The Lollard Context and Subtext of the Parson’s Tale (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).
Compunction and Shame in Old English Literature (in preparation).

Edited Volumes
New Readings of Chaucer, eds.  Clíodhna Carney and Frances McCormack (Dublin: Four Courts Press, forthcoming)

Articles and Book Chapters
’The Dangerous Beauty of Chaucer’s Priroress’, Clíodhna Carney and Frances McCormack (eds), New Readings of Chaucer (Dublin: Four Courts Press, forthcoming).

’Chaucer’s Lollard Voice’, in CEMA: Proceedings (forthcoming).

’The Later Greene: From Modernist to Moralist’, in Gilvary and Middleton (eds), Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene (New York: Continuum, October 2011).

“Chaucer and Lollardy”, in Helen Philips (ed.), Chaucer and Religion (Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2010).

’Reading God: Visions and Re-visions in Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love’, in Kathleen Cawsey and Jason Harris (eds), Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007).

’The Old Ways and The New: The Heterodoxy of Sir John Clanvowe's The Two Ways’, in Karen Hodder and Brendan O’ Connell (eds), The Old Ways and the New: A Festschrift in Honour of John Scattergood (Forthcoming).

“Nothing but a Regret:  The Doctrine of Compunction in the Catholic Novels of Graham Greene” (in preparation).

’“And the sea like God was silent”: Multivalent Water Imagery and Theological Complexity in Shusako Endo’s Silence,’ in preparation for a collection on Endo’s Theology, edited by Darren J. N. Middleton.

Reviews
Larissa Tracy, Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012). Forthcoming with FMRSI

R. Allen Shoaf, Chaucer’s Body: The Anxiety of Circulation in the Canterbury Tales (Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2001).  Bulletin of International Medieval Research, 2007.

David Raybin and Linda Tarte Holley, eds., Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of the Parson’s Tale (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000).  Bulletin of International Medieval Research, 2007.

Selected Conference Papers and Guest Lectures
’Chaucer’s Lollard Voice: Further Musings’.  Invited speaker at Centre d’études médiévales anglaises, Sorbonne-IV (March, 2012).

’Nothing But a Regret: The Doctrine of Compunction in the Catholic Novels of Graham Greene’.  Invited speaker at the Graham Greene International Festival, Berkhamsted, 2010.

’Large Group Teaching’, workshop given with two colleagues to students on Diploma in Academic Practice, NUI, Galway, 2010.

’Nothing but a Regret’, delivered to the English Society, NUI, Galway, 2010.

’Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock: From Novel to Film’, guest graduate lecture, Universidad de la Rioja, 2008.

’Assessment’, lecture given to students on certificate in Academic Practice, NUI, Galway, 2007. 

’“Why sholde I sowen draf out of my fest?”: Chaucer’s Parson and the False Prophet Motif’, Literature and Heresy Conference, TCD, 17^th November 2007.  Invited Speaker.

’The Old Ways and the New: The Heterodoxy of Sir John Clanvowe’s The Two Ways’, Age and Youth in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature, TCD, 29^th September 2006.  Invited Speaker.

’Reading God: Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love’.  Paper given to the Association of Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, NUI Galway, February 2006.

’Shelta: The Language of the Irish Travellers’.  Guest lecture given at UCD, April 2006.

Other
Frances was a lexicographical consultant for Terence Patrick Dolan’s Dictionary of Hiberno-English (2^nd edn)

    

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