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JANE CHANCE Professor Chance is the author of 22 books including The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women (2007), The Genius Figure in Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Tolkien’s Art: A ‘Mythology for England’; Woman as Hero in Old English Literature; The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power; Medieval Mythography, vol. 1, From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, AD 433–1177 (winner of the 1994 SCMLA Book Prize), and vol. 2, From the School of Chartres to the Court at Avignon, 1177–1349; and The Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulation of Sexual Politics. The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power has been translated into Japanese. She has also edited, among many collections, Tolkien the Medievalist (twice a finalist for the Mythopoeic Prize) and Tolkien and the Invention of Myth. She has edited or co-edited numerous collections of essays. She also has edited a 15th-century poem, The Assembly of Gods, and translated Christine de Pizan’s The Letter of Othea to Hector. Her most recent books include the collections Women Medievalists and the Academy and Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages. General editor of the Library of Medieval Women, with more than 30 titles published or in print; series editor of the Greenwood Guides to Historic Events in the Medieval World, with 12 titles contracted; general editor of the Praeger Series on the Middle Ages; and field editor of the Chaucer Encyclopedia, she also has published many articles; her essay on Heloise and Abelard won the 2005 Prize for Best Essay from the Society for Medieval Scholarship and her article on Beowulf has been reprinted seven times. She has received NEH and Guggenheim Fellowships, fellowships at the University of Utah Humanities Center and the University of Edinburgh—Advanced Studies in the Humanities, residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center at Bellagio, and membership in the Institute for Advanced Study—Princeton. She has served as founding president of the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages and as vice president of the Texas Faculty Association. She also has directed an NEH Summer Seminar and an NEH Summer Institute, both for college teachers. She teaches courses on Chaucer, Middle English literature, medieval women writers, Arthurian literature, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dante, mythologies, and medieval cultures. |
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Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana