Stephanie Trigg
Professor, English
Biography
Stephanie Trigg holds an Honours Degree and a PhD in English from the Department of English at the University of Melbourne and a B.Litt. degree in Philosophy and Social Theory from Melbourne. She was awarded the University of Melbourne's Woodward Medal for Research Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2004, and the Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003. In 2005, she was Visiting Hurst Professor in the Department of English and American Literature at Washington University in Saint Louis. In 2009 she is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, and Distinguished Lecturer, New York University. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2006, and in 2008 received the Patricia Grimshaw Award for Excellence in Mentoring, and an Award for Teaching Excellence in Arts and Humanities from the Australian Teaching and Learning Council.
Current research
Current projects include a cultural history of the Order of the Garter (funded by a Discovery Grant from the Australian Research Council); a collaborative project on Australian medievalism with Louise D'Arcens (University of Wollongong), Andrew Lynch (University of Western Australia) and John Ganim (University of California, Riverside), also funded by the ARC; and a book on the theory of medievalism, being jointly written with Thomas Prendergast (College of Wooster, Ohio).
Major grants held
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2004-6: "Royal Ritual and the Order of the Garter" $151,000
Australian Research Council Network Funding: Network for Early European Research (UWA): 2004-2009: $1,600,000
Australian Research Council Discovery Grant: 2008-11. "Medievalism in Australian Cultural Memory". With Andrew Lynch (UWA), Louise D'Arcens (Wollongong), John Ganim (UC Riverside): $340,000
Public positions
- Joint Editor of Book Series, Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Brepols Publishing)
- Member of Editorial Board, Literature Compass (Blackwells)
- Member of Editorial Board, Long Histories (University of Western Australia Press)
- Member of Editorial Board, Manchester Medieval Literature (University of Manchester Press)
- Trustee, New Chaucer Society, 2008-11
- Member, Executive Board, International Piers Plowman Society.
- Member of Editorial Board, Exemplaria
- Member of Editorial Board, Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies
Publications
Blog
- Humanities Researcher: http://stephanietrigg.blogspot.com
Books
- Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer From Medieval to Postmodern. Minneapolis and London: Minnesota University Press, 2002. xxiv+280pp.
- Gwen Harwood, Oxford Australian Writers series. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994. viii + 119pp.
- Wynnere and Wastoure, ed. Early English Text Society, 297. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990. lvii + 67 pp.
Edited books
- Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture. Ed. and intro. Making the Middle Ages, Vol. 8. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005; and Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006.
- Medieval English Poetry, ed. and introd. Longman Critical Readers Series. London: Longman, 1993. xii+299 pp.
Book chapters
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"The Negative Erotics of Medievalism?" with Tom Prendergast, in The Post-Historical Middle Ages, ed. Sylvia Federico and Elizabeth Scala. Palgrave, 2009.
- 'The Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter,' in Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England, ed. Gordon McMullan and David Matthews. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 91-105.
- 'Learning to Live,' in Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English, ed. Paul Strohm. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. 459-75.
- 'Chaucer's "lewed peple": japes, apes and the pre-history of mass culture,' in Medieval Cultural Studies: Essays in Honour of Stephen Knight, ed. David Matthews, Helen Fulton and Ruth Evans. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006. 166-78.
- 'Rituals of Nationhood: Medievalism, Neo-Traditionalism and Republicanism,' with Paul James, in Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture, ed. S. Trigg. 255-257.
- 'Chaucer's Influence and Reception,' in Yale Companion to Chaucer, ed. Seth Lerer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. 297-323.
- 'Reception: Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries,' in Oxford Guide to Chaucer, ed. Steve Ellis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 528-43.
- 'From Medieval to Medievalist -- and Back Again?' in Readers, Writers, Publishers: Essays and Poems, ed. Brian Matthews. Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2004. 135-43.
Articles
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"Medievalism, the Queen and the Dandy", AntiTHESIS, 2009 (forthcoming)
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"What is Happening to the Middle Ages?" With Tom Prendergast. New Medieval Literatures 9 (2008) 215-229.
- "Medievalism and Convergence Culture: Researching the Middle Ages for Fiction and Film." Parergon 25.2 (2008): 99-118.
- "The Injuries of Time: Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Speght, and Wade's Boat," The La Trobe Journal 81 (2008): 106-117.
- "I've Written My Talk: Blogging, Speaking, Writing," Heat 15 (2007): 115-26.
- '"Medieval Literature" or "Early Europe"? How to Win Grants and Change the Course of Scholarship.' Literature Compass 3 (March 2006).
http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/literature/section_home?section=lico-medieval - '"Shamed be...": Historicizing Shame in Medieval and Early Modern Courtly Ritual.' Exemplaria 19.1 (2007): 67-89.
- 'Walking Through Cathedrals: Medieval Tourism and the Authenticity of Place.' New Medieval Literatures 7 (2005): 9-33.
- 'The Poetry of Service in The Manciple's Tale.' Studies in the Age of Chaucer 25 (2003): 325-30.
- 'The New Medievalization of Chaucer.' Studies in the Age of Chaucer 24 (2002): 347-54.
- '"Ye louely ladyes with youre longe fyngres": The Silkwomen of Medieval London.' Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 38 (2002): 469-84.
Other publications
- "Pretty in pink women shop for a cure," op-ed essay on breast cancer fund-raising and femininity, Sunday Age, 21st October, 2007, p. 19.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/pretty-in-pink-women-shop-for-a-cure/2007/10/20/1192301099020.html - "Life Lessons," feature essay on breast cancer and blogging in The Sunday Age, 10th June, 2007 http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/life-lessons/2007/06/09/1181089387205.html
Conference proceedings
- 'Once and Future Medievalism', antiTHESIS forum 3, 2005.