Frank Grady
Department of English
UM-St. Louis
EMPLOYMENT
Interim Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University
of Missouri-St. Louis, 2022-23
Professor of English, University of
Missouri-St. Louis, 2007-
Department
Chair, 2014-22
Associate
Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, 2008-2014
Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor of
English, Carleton College, Spring 2015
Associate Professor of English, University of
Missouri-St. Louis, 1999-2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of English,
Davidson College, 1994-5
Assistant Professor of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis,
1991-1999
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1991
BA Magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1983
PUBLICATIONS
“The Year of Living Decanally,
or Non-Regular Research,” New Chaucer
Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 5 (2024): 69–78.
“Moral Chaucer,” in The Cambridge
Companion to the Canterbury Tales, ed. Grady, below (2020): 205-217.
Editor, The
Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)
“Chaucer’s Langland’s Boethius,”
The
Yearbook of Langland Studies 32 (2018): 271-87.
“Hunting and fortune
in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in Contemporary
Chaucer across the Centuries: Essays for Stephanie Trigg, ed. Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and
Melissa Raine (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), 109-124.
Editor, with Peter
Travis, Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Second
Edition (New York: Modern Language Association, 2014)
“Seigneurial Poetics,
or The Poacher, the Prikasour,
the Hunt and Its Oeuvre,” 195-213 in Answerable Style, ed. Grady and Galloway, below (2013).
Editor, with Andrew Galloway, Answerable
Style: Form and History in Medieval English Literature (Columbus:
The Ohio State University Press, 2013)
“Looking Awry at St. Erkenwald,” Exemplaria
23.2 (Summer 2011): 105-25.
Editor, Studies in the Age of Chaucer,
vols. 25 (2003) – 29 (2007)
Representing
Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England, (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2005)
Preface to The
Canterbury Tales: A Selection, ed. Donald Howard (Signet Classics,
2005)
“Contextualizing Alexander and Dindimus,” The Yearbook of Langland
Studies 18 (2004): 81-106.
“Arnoldian Humanism,
or Amnesia and Autobiography in the Schwarzenegger Action Film,” Cinema Journal 42 (Winter 2003):
41-56. [available through Project
Muse]
"Gower's Boat,
Richard's Barge, and the True Story of the Confessio Amantis:
Text and Gloss," Texas
Studies in Literature
and Language 44:1(Spring 2002): 1-15. [available through Project
Muse]
"The Generation
of 1399," in The Letter of
the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England,
edited by Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington (Cornell University Press,
2002), pp. 202-29.
"St. Erkenwald and the Merciless Parliament," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22 (2000):179-211.
"The Boethian Reader of Troilus and Criseyde," The Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 230-251.
"Vampire
Culture," in Monster Theory:
Reading Culture, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (University of Minnesota
Press, 1996): 225-41.
"Chaucer
Reading Langland: The House of
Fame," Studies
in the Age of Chaucer 18 (1996): 3-23.
"Machomete and Mandeville's Travels," in Medieval Christian Perceptions of Islam,
ed. John Tolan (Garland Publishing, 1996): 271-88. Reprinted by Routledge,
2000.
"The
Lancastrian Gower and the Limits of Exemplarity," Speculum 70 (1995): 552-75.
[available through JSTOR]
"Piers Plowman, St. Erkenwald,
and the Rule of Exceptional Salvations," The Yearbook of Langland Studies 6 (1992): 61-86.
CONFERENCE PAPERS/INVITED LECTURES
“What the Archive Brings to Life,” Forty-Ninth Annual
Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Sewanee, TN, April 5-6, 2024
“Chaucer’s
Langland’s Boethius,” New Chaucer Society Congress, London, England, July
10-14, 2016
“Hapax Langlandia,” Sixth International Piers
Plowman Conference, Seattle, WA, July 23-26, 2015
“Petrarch in
Yorkshire, c. 1437,” Carleton College, April 13, 2015
“How
to Do Wills with Things,” New Chaucer Society Congress, Reykjavik, Iceland, July
15-19, 2014
“Langland and Genre:
Five Questions,” 48th International
Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May
9-12, 2013
“Hunting and Fortune
in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,”
New Chaucer Society Congress, Portland, OR, July 23-26, 2012
“Petrarch in
Yorkshire,” Medieval Clerical Culture Reading Group, Center for the Humanities,
Washington University, St. Louis, MO, April 13, 2012
“Langland’s
‘Love-Dreem,’” Fifth International
Piers Plowman Conference, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, April 14-17, 2011
“Petrarch in Yorkshire, or, Literacy,
Piety, Charity, Family, History, Law, Romance, Politics, Penitence, Theology,
Humanism, and the Fifteenth-Century Urban Gentry,” 44th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7-10, 2009
“Teaching The General Prologue/The Knight’s Tale,” two workshops at the
Nineteenth Annual Literature Conference for Teachers and Lovers of Good Books,
Eastern Illinois University, October 23-24, 2008
“Seigneurial Poetics,
or The Poacher, the Prikasour, the Hunt and Its
Oeuvre,” The State of the Literary: Form After Historicism, A
Conference in Honor of Anne Middleton, University of California- Berkeley,
April 19, 2008
"Hard-boiled Hagiography, or, Looking Awry at St. Erkenwald," New Chaucer Society
Congress, New York City, July 27-31, 2006.
“Comstock’s
Chaucer,” Modern Language Association
Convention, Washington, DC, December 27-30, 2005
“Venery, Tragedy, and Translation, or, Are the
Nine Worthies really just a bunch of Nimrods?”, University of Notre Dame,
December 1, 2005
“How to Recognize a
Virtuous Pagan When You See One,” University of California, Irvine, November
17, 2004; University of Texas, Austin, February 11, 2005; University of
Missouri, Columbia, October 21, 2005
“The Salvation of
the Heathen: Some Strategies for Getting Away with It,” Washington and Lee
University, May 17, 2004
"The Trouble
with Trajan," Third International Piers Plowman Conference, University of
Birmingham, July 9-12, 2003
"Piers Plowman
and Alexander and Dindimus???"
38th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-11, 2003
"City, Scribe
and Patron in Fifteenth-Century London: The Case of Richard Frampton," 29th
Annual St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis University,
October 11-12, 2002
“City, Scribe and
Patron, or, Frampton Comes Alive,” Modern Language Association Convention, New
Orleans, LA, December 27-30, 2001
“Start the
Revolution Without Me: Violence, Politics, and the New Hollywood Epic,”
Violence, Cinema, and American Culture Conference, Center for the Humanities,
University of Missouri-St. Louis, April 6-7, 2001
"Textual
Poaching in The Parlement
of the Thre Ages," Modern Language
Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 2000
"'You Can't
Handle the Truth': Mum and the Sothsegger in the Reign of Henry IV," 35th
International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 4-7, 2000
"Arnoldian
Humanism: Allegory, Apparatus, and Autobiography in the Action Film,"
University of Missouri-Columbia,
Columbia, MO, October 13, 1998
"’Exclusive of
Chaucer’: Curricular Animadversions," Biennial Conference of the New
Chaucer Society, University of Paris-Sorbonne, July 17-21, 1998
"Predestination, Foreknowledge, and the Boethian Reader of Troilus
and Criseyde," Fifth International Medieval Congress, University of
Leeds, July 13-16, 1998
"The Generation
of 1399," 33rd International Conference on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7-10, 1998
"The
Lancastrian Usurpation of Ricardian Poetry," 32nd International Conference
on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 8-11, 1997
"Ricardian
Justice in St. Erkenwald,"
Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 1996
"Miracles Are
Politics by Other Means: St. Erkenwald and the Merciless Parliament,"
31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 1996
"Sympathy for
the Vampire? From Dracula to The Vampire Lestat,"
Monday Noon Series Lecture, Center for the Humanities, University of
Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, April 22, 1996
"Arnoldian
Humanism: Action, Allegory and Amnesia from Total
Recall to True Lies,"
Mid-America American Studies Association, St. Louis, MO, April 19-20, 1996
"Bourgeois
Long-Windedness: A Marxist Critique" ("How to Stop a Long-Winded
Speaker: A Metapanel"), Modern Language
Association Convention, San Diego, CA, December 27-30, 1994
"Dracula on the Border," Davidson
College, Davidson, NC, October 31, 1994
"The Vampire as
Culture," Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Minneapolis, MN,
November 4-6, 1993
"Gower's Alexander
and the Limits of Exemplarity," 28th International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 6-9, 1993
"The Man of Law's Tale and the Chaucerian
Critique of Romance,"
University of Missouri-St. Louis English Department Colloquium, April 20, 1993
"Chaucer
Reading Langland: The House of Fame,"
Modern Language Association Convention, New York, NY, December 27-30, 1992
"St. Erkenwald
and the Rule of Exceptional Salvations," Midwest Modern Language
Association Convention, St. Louis, MO, November 5-7, 1992
"Gender, Genre,
and the Sense of an Ending in the Man of
Law's Tale," "The Roles of Women in the Middle Ages: A
Reassessment" Conference, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
Binghamton, NY, October 15-17, 1992
"Readers and
Writers, Cloister and Court, Alexander
and Dindimus," Medieval Association of the
Midwest Conference, Warrensburg, MO, September 20-21, 1991
"'Machomete' and Mandeville's
Travels" the 26th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 1991
"Nature and
Society, Cloister and Court, Alexander
and Dindimus," Medieval Association of the
Pacific Conference, Davis, CA, March 1-3, 1991
"Composition and the Study of Popular
Culture," (with Terry Mulcaire) Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Chicago, IL, March 22-24, 1990