Department of English
Amy Vines
Contact Information
E-mail: anvines@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3113
Office Phone: 336-334-5221
At UNCG Since: 2007
Education
Ph.D. Brown University-2006
M.A. University of Colorado at Boulder-1999
B.A. Emory University-1995
Research Interests
Dr. Vines specializes in the literature and culture of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, with concentrations in women’s readership, textual studies, patronage, and medieval romance. She teaches courses in medieval literature, history of the English language, and early women writers. Her graduate courses include On the Margins of the Medieval: The Outcast in Middle English Literature and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Selected Publications
- A Woman’s Counsel: Literary Models of Women’s Patronage in Late Medieval Romance, in progress.
- “Lullaby as Lament: Learning to Mourn in Middle English Nativity Lyrics.” Laments for the Lost: Medieval Mourning and Elegy. Ed. J. Tolmie. Brussels: Brepols Pub., forthcoming 2009.
- “A Woman’s ‘Crafte’: Melior as Lover, Teacher, and Patron in the Middle English Partonope of Blois.” Modern Philology 105.2 (2007): 245-270.
- “’Thys Ys Her Owne Boke’: Women Reading The Middle English Prose Brut Chronicle.” Readers and Writers of the Brut. Trivium 36 (2006): 71-96.
Awards and Honors
- Marc Friedlaender Faculty Excellence Award, UNC-Greensboro, 2008–2009.
- Participant and Grant Recipient, National Humanities Center Summer Institute in Literary Studies, 2008.
- Scholar’s Travel Grant, UNC-Greensboro, 2007.