Carolyn
P. Collette
 Professor
of English and Medieval Studies
631
Williston Library
(413) 538-2452
office hours: M 1:30-3:00 & by appt.
ccollett@mtholyoke.edu
Education
B.A. Mount Holyoke College
(magna cum laude, with great distinction)
M.A., PhD. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Carolyn Collette is Professor of English Language and Literature on
the Alumnae Foundation. A recipient of Woodrow Wilson, NDEA and NEH
fellowships, she is past president of the American branch of the International
Courtly Literature Society. She is a member of the Editorial Board
of The Chaucer Review, and is a Research Associate at the Centre for
Medieval Studies at the University of York in England. She has served
on the Steering Committee of the New England Medieval Conference and
as chair of the Five College Medieval Studies Seminar. She has chaired
both the English Department and the Medieval Studies Program at Mount
Holyoke. In 2006 she was awarded the Mount Holyoke College Faculty
Award for Teaching.
Her current research focuses on the webs of knowledge, language, and
authority that underlie the multiple courtly sociolects of late medieval
Anglo-French culture. Her teaching focuses on medieval literature,
nineteenth century medievalism, and on modern receptions of medieval
themes. She is a contributing editor for a forthcoming volume of
essays from the July, 2007 French of England Conference held at the
Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. With Professor
Harold Garrett-Goodyear of the Mount Holyoke History Department she
is editing a sourcebook of medieval documents for a series of volumes
contextualizing English literature from the medieval to the modern
period published by Palgrave Macmillan. At present she is working
on late medieval understandings of time, measure and value as well
as continuing her research on European relations with the Eastern
Mediterranean, especially the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia in the
later fourteenth century.
Medieval Studies at
Mount Holyoke College
Selected Recent Publications:
"Charlotte D'Evelyn: A Passion to Explore," in Women Medievalists
in the Academy,
ed. Jane Chance (University of Wisconsin Press,
2005).
"The Canon's Yeoman's Tale" with Vincent DiMarco, Sources and
Analogues of the Canterbury Tales, vol. 2 (Cambridge:
D.S.Brewer, 2005), 715-47.
The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception (Woodbridge,
Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 2006).
Performing Polity: Women and
Agency in the Anglo-French Tradition, vol. 15 in
Medieval
Women: Texts and Contexts Series (Turnhout, Belgium:Brepols), 2006.
"The Alchemy of Imagination and the Labyrinth of Meaning: Some Caveats
about the After Life of Sources," Studies in the Age of Chaucer,
28 (2006), 243-48.
Teaching Schedule 2007-2008
Medieval Studies 200/English 214f/s Exploring Medieval Texts
and Contexts
English 311s Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde: Loving Criseyde, Losing
Criseyde
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