Faculty Directory
Jeanne
Krochalis
Associate Professor
Contact:
Penn State New Kensington
Office Phone:
724-334-6756
jek4@psu.edu
Brief Bio:
Personal Website:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/jek4/
Educational History:
Ph.D., M.A. Harvard University
M.Phil. Oxford University
A.B. Mount Holyoke College
Research Interests:
Medieval manuscripts and palaeography; medieval Latin literature; Middle English literature; the literature of pilgrimage and travel; problems of translation; children's literature; detective stories
At Penn State, I am working with Susan Hamburger cataloguing the medieval manuscripts and fragments in MARC format.
Awards:
Darmouth Humanities Institute Visiting Fellow, 1991
NEH Summer Stipend, 1990
American Philosophical Society Fellowship, 1978
Huntington Library Fellowship, 1977
Major Publications:
"Hieronymus Munzer y su Pseudo-Turpin," in Proceedings of the Pseudo-Turpin Conference, Santiago da Compostela, Spain: Xunta de Galicia, 2003
Reviewed article on Ruth J. Dean, Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts. Anglo-Norman Text Society Occasional Publications Series no. 3. Anglo Norman Text Society: London, 1999; Journal of the Early Book Society, V (2002)
"Magna Tabula: The Glastonbury Tablets, Parts 1 and 2," rep. In James Carley, ed. Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition, (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2002)
"Manuscripts of the Liturgy" (with E. Ann Matter), in Thomas Heffernan and E. Ann Matter, eds., The Liturgy of the Medieval Church, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Press, 2001, pp. 433-472.
The Pigrim's Guide to Compostela, Vol. 1 The Manuscripts; Vol. 2 The Texts, Alison Stones and Jeanne Krochalis, with the assistance of Paula Gerson and Annie Shaver-Crandall, London: Harvey Miller
"Hieronymus Munzer at Compostela, 1494," in Pilgrimage to Compostela: A Book of Essays, ed. Linda Davidson and Marijane Dunn, (New York: Garland, 1996)
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art gallery, Vol. I: France, 875-1420. Lilian M.C. Randall, assisted by Judith Oliver, Christopher Clarkson, Jeanne Krochalis, Jennifer Morrish. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1989. The first of four voumes; palaeography consultant for all volumes. Volume II, 1993.
Teachers' Guide to Finding Western Medieval Manuscripts in North American Collections (with Jean F. Preston). (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Press, 1988)
"The Books of Henry V and His Circle," The Chaucer Review 23: (1988)
Teaching Statement:
As a Penn State New Kensington faculty member on a campus with a small liberal arts faculty, I've taught everything from Gilgamesh to Toni Morrison, in English; Comparative Literature; Classics; Women's Studies; Science, Technology, and Society; Religious Studies; and the now defunct Humanities program. Currently, I teach a lot of mythology (Classical and Comparative), because it's a good way in to the problem of other cultures, other ways of thinking, feeling, celebrating, for students who are uncomfortable around present-day otherness. Composition teachers are supposed to care about student writing, and I do, but I care much more about student reading. If students come out of English 15 and 202 and never again read for pleasure or enlightenment, we've failed. So I keep trying to find stories and poems and ideas that will create and retain readers. Any suggestions welcome.
National Professional Service:
Associate editor, The Chaucer Review, 1986-
Speaker and discussion leader, Pennsylvania Humanities Council Community Forums, 1998 and 2003
Advisory Board, Read All About It, 2004
MLA Delegate Assembly, 1985-1997
Co-Chair, Penn State English Department Commonwealth Administration Committee, 1993-1995 (New Kensington representative, 1987-)
Member, Penn State English Department Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1992-1993
Member, Penn State Medieval Studies Committee, 1991-
Editorial Board, The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 1986-89
MLA Division Committee, Middle English Literature excluding Chaucer, 1984-1988
Chair, Medieval Academy of America TEAMS Translation Committee, 1985-1987
Member, Medieval Academy of America
Member, Association Paleographique Internationale de Culture, Ecriture et Sagesse (APICES)
Member, Early Book Society
Member, Medieval Latin Association of North America
Member, Pittsburgh Bibliophiles
