All About Flowendegieddum:


It has truly been FOREVER since I updated -- 2006, actually! I have not really lived up to my handle, I suppose :-) Back when I began this blog, I envisioned it as a place in which to bask in the pleasures and vent at the frustrations of life in academia. And also to showcase some of the work I'm doing in which I'm particularly interested. But right away, that work took center stage and pushed the blogosphere so far out of my mind as to place it in the back row of the orchestra pit. Now, on this beautiful early spring day when I should be outside catching rays, I'm back in cyberland again.

At the time I began my blog, inthemiddle, which makes a point of getting to know all the medieval bloggers of note, requested more information about me. Since there's nothing I like better than to talk about myself, I am happy to oblige:

About me:

M.A. Thesis on the Wife of Bath and the 1381 Rising: looked at how marginalized groups (i.e. women and the clamoring mob) get their messages across when their speech is marginalized. Both women's and the rebels' speech were compared to animal noise rather than signifying speech, and both the Wife and the rebels used nonverbal symbolic performance (specifically, document destruction) to communicate their message.

Orals Fields: Secrecy and disclosure in OE poetry and hagiography
Arthurian Lit
Chaucer
Still in nascent stage.

Abiding interests: performance theory, narratology, feminist theory, oppression and strategies of resistance, indigenous literatures (particularly American and South/Central American), Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Loves: chocolate, purple, travel, trying new cuisines, reading, my cat (Star), medievalists, watching movies (of pretty much any genre), Montana, and once upon a time before grad school, playing the clarinet

Hates: long lines, waiting of any kind, water chestnuts, the actor John Malkovich (not personally, I just can't stand him in movies) and _Pulp Fiction_