Dr. Hannah Zdansky

B.A., Baylor University

M.A., National University of Ireland, Galway

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

• Literary Classics of the Western Tradition I & II (EN211 & EN212)
• Rhetoric I & II (RH101 & RH102)
• History of the English Language (EN360)
• Chaucer (EN402)
• Doctors of the Church (HO303) (Honors)

Refereed Articles

• “Religion in/and/all over Medieval Literature” (co-authored with Katy Wright-Bushman), Religion & Literature 46.2-3 (2014): 53-74.
• “‘And fer ouer þe French flod’: A Look at Cotton Nero A.x from an International Perspective.” New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall. Ed. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton and John J. Thompson. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. 226-250. 
• “Love in Translation: The Irish Vernacularization of the Aeneid.” The Language of Gender, Power, and Agency in Celtic Studies. Ed. Amber Handy and Brian Ó Conchubhair. Dublin: Arlen House, 2014. 43-58.
• “Fin’ Amors Refined: The Spiritual Sublimation of the Courtly Couple in the Queste del Saint Graal.” Cultures courtoises en mouvement. Ed. Isabelle Arseneau and Francis Gingras. Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2011. 210-223.

Reference Articles

• “Patrick, Saint” (co-authored with K. Sarah-Jane Murray), The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization. vol. 3. Ed. George T. Kurian. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 1770-1771. 
• “Priscian” (co-authored with K. Sarah-Jane Murray), The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. vol. 3. Ed. Robert E. Bjork. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 1359.
• “St. Adomnán” (co-authored with K. Sarah-Jane Murray), The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. vol. 1. Ed. Robert E. Bjork. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 11.
• “Courtly Love” (co-authored with K. Sarah-Jane Murray), The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry before 1600. Ed. Michelle M. Sauer. New York: Facts on File, 2008. 130-131.
• “Lust” (co-authored with K. Sarah-Jane Murray), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History. vol. 2. The Medieval Era. Ed. William E. Burns. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 136-137.
• “Medb” (co-authored with K. Sarah-Jane Murray), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History. vol. 2. The Medieval Era. Ed. William E. Burns. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 152.
• “Monasticism, Male.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History. vol. 2. The Medieval Era. Ed. William E. Burns. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 165-166.
• “Pope Joan.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History. vol. 2. The Medieval Era. Ed. William E. Burns. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 191.
• “Tristan” (co-authored with K. Sarah-Jane Murray), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality through History. vol. 2. The Medieval Era. Ed. William E. Burns. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008. 234-236.

Book Reviews

• Newman, Barbara. Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. In Religion & Literature 47.2 (2016): 178-181.
• Fletcher, Alan J. The Presence of Medieval English Literature: Studies at the Interface of History, Author, and Text in a Selection of Middle English Literary Landmarks. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2012. In Comitatus 44 (2013): 267-270.

Talks and Presentations (Selected)

• “At the Interface of Literature and Religion: Beathadh Sir Gui o Bharbhuic and the Structuring of Metanoia.” Religion and Early Literature. 

A session of the 131st MLA Annual Convention, held in Austin, Texas, January 7-10, 2016. 

• “Guy of Warwick in Ireland: Beathadh Sir Gui o Bharbhuic and Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 1298.” Celebrations in the Heroic Age. 

A session of the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, held at Western Michigan University, May 2015. 

• “Medieval Mixtapes: The Not-So Miscellaneous Miscellany, or Why Materiality Matters.” Manuscript Studies and Literary Form: Ordinatio, Genre, and Medieval Reading Practices. 

A panel of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, held at the University of Notre Dame, March 2015. 

• “Figuring God’s Court: Julian’s Parable of the Lord and Servant and the Tradition(s) of the Daughters of God Allegory.” Heavenly Courts. 

A session of the 14th Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society: “Courtly Parodies/Parodies of Courtoisie,” organized by the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa; the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; and the Universidade Aberta, Lisboa, held in Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013. 

• “Understanding Devotional Texts across the Late Medieval/Early Modern Divide: The Case of The Lamentatyon of Mary Magdaleyne.” After Chaucer. 

A session of the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, held at Western Michigan University, May 2012. 

• “‘And fer ouer þe French flod’: A Look at Cotton Nero A.x from an International Perspective.” Here Come the Irish: International, Regional, and Scribal Identities. 

A session of New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: A Conference in Honour of Derek Pearsall’s Eightieth Birthday, held at the University of Notre Dame’s London Centre, October 2011. 

• “Medieval Women Reading Women: The Heroine and Her Marriage in the Middle English Storie of Asneth.” Gender and the Dynamics of Marriage in Medieval English Literature. 

A session of the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, held at Western Michigan University, May 2011.

•  “Fin’ Amors Refined: The Spiritual Sublimation of the Courtly Couple in the Queste del Saint Graal.” 

In a session of the 13th Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society: “Courtly Cultures on the Move,” held at the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montréal, July 2010. 

• “Glossing St. Catherine of Siena: The Hagiographer’s Role in Expounding Her Theology of Love.” Personal Devotion and the Divine Will. 

A session of the International Medieval Congress 2010, held at the University of Leeds, July 2010. 

• “Love in Translation: The Irish Vernacularization of the Aeneid.” Crosscurrents and Connections: Ireland and the Continent. 

A session of the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, held at Western Michigan University, May 2010.

• “Aeneas and Dido in Ireland: The Case of the Imtheachta Aeniasa and Cross-Cultural Conceptions of Love.” 

In a session of the 2010 National Meeting of the Celtic Studies Association of North America: “Saints, Sinners, and Scribes in the Celtic World,” hosted by the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame, April 2010.

• Teaching Hagiography as Narrative Theology: A Roundtable. 

A session of the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, held at Western Michigan University, May 2009. 

• “Chrétien de Troyes and St. Bernard of Clairvaux on Love and Marriage.” 

In a session of Borderlines XI: “Minds and Mentalities,” a postgraduate medievalists conference, held at Queen’s University Belfast, April 2007.

• “Romancing Bernard of Clairvaux: Chrétien de Troyes and the Four Degrees of Love.” French Literature. 

A session of the North American Christian Foreign Language Association’s 16th annual conference, held at Baylor University, April 2006.