Jane Chance's Invited, Plenary, and Keynote Lectures

• Invited Lecture, “Beowulf: The Hero and the Monster,” Houston Early Music Pre-Lecture, Trinity Church, Houston, TX, February 11, 2005.
• Solicited Lecture, “Tolkien and the Other: Gender and Race in Middle-earth,” Session on “Tolkien Our Contemporary” organized by Ralph Wood, Baylor University, Conference on Christianity and Literature, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 27-30, 2004.
• Invited Lecture, “Beowulf and the Monsters,” for the “Medieval Life and Thought” course, Oct. 4-Nov. 22, 2004; 7:15-8:45 p.m., Office of Continuing Studies, Medieval Studies, and Humanities Division, Rice University, Houston, TX, Monday, Nov. 8, 2004.
• Guest Lecturer, “Out of Africa: Tolkien’s Anglo-Saxon Scholarship as a Window into Middle-earth,” University of New Mexico Institute for Medieval Studies Outreach Seminar for High School Teachers on “Of Heroes and Hobbits in the Works of Tolkien and Beowulf,” October 29, 2004.
• Featured Speaker, “Subversive Fantasist: Tolkien on Class Difference,” Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Marquette Libraries and Special Collections, Marquette University, Wisconsin, Oct. 21-23, 2004.
• Invited Speaker, Parents’ Weekend, Rice University, Houston, Oct. 15, 2004 (declined).
• Guest Lecturer, “Tolkien and the Other: Gender and Race in Middle-earth,” NEH Summer Institute for Teachers on “From Beowulf to Post-Modernism: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings,” Texas A & M University-Commerce, June-July, 2004 (July 12-16, 2004, my individual lectures July 14, 2004).
• Guest Lecturer, “Tolkien and the Other: Race and Gender in Middle-earth” and “Tolkien’s Women (and Men): The Films and the Book,” in a seminar on “Reading Tolkien and Living the Virtues” (Month-long seminar funded by the Lilly Foundation and directed by Ralph Wood), Baylor University, Waco, TX, Thursday, June 23, 2004.
• Guest Lecturer, “Tolkien’s Women (and Men): The Films and the Book,” English Department, Károli Gáspár Protestant University, Budapest, Hungary, April 27, 2004.
• Guest Lecture, “Tolkien’s Women (and Men): The Films and the Book,” at Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem University, Eger, Hungary, April 26.
• Plenary Speaker, “Tolkien and the Other: Race and Gender in Middle-earth,” at the Second Annual Conference of the Hungarian Tolkien Society, on “J. R. R. Tolkien: Language, Tradition, Interpretation,” at the English Institute of the University of Pécs, the Dept. of Modern Literary History and Literary Theory, and the Students’ Union of the Pécs Faculty of Arts, Pécs, Hungary, April 24, 2004.
• Guest Lecturer, “Out of Africa: Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon Scholarship as a Window into on Middle Earth," in a Symposium on “J. R. R. Tolkien, Fantasist and Medievalist,” organized by Chris Vaccaro, English Department, University of Vermont, March 6, 2004.
• Annual McMichael Lecture, on “Tolkien and the Other: Race and Gender in Middle-earth,” St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Saturday, January 25, 2004; and Sunday Adult Education Lecturer on “Tolkien on the Sexes,” January 26, 2004.
• Featured Panelist, on “Teaching Tolkien in the University,” with Daniel Timmons and Michael Drout, and “The Women in Middle-earth,” Dec. 15, 2003; and “The Lord of the Rings: The Films vs. The Books” and “What is Tolkien’s Mythology,” Dec. 17, 2003; at “The Gathering of the Fellowship,” Toronto, Canada, Dec. 15-17, 2003.
• Guest Lecture, “Tolkien and the Other: Gender and Race in Middle-earth,” Dallas Consortium of Medievalists, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 4, 2003.
• Featured Speaker, “Tolkien’s Women (and Men): The Film and the Book,” and Moderator, Panel on “Tolkien and War,” Tolkien Society Oxonmoot (Bilbo’s 111st Birthday), St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, England, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003.
• Guest Panelist, with Michael Drout, editor, Tolkien Journal, and Ted Sherman, editor, Mythlore, at a symposium, “More than a Fantasy? Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages,” speaking on “Tolkien and the Other: Race and Gender in Middle-earth,” Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, April 8, Monday, 2003; invited class lecture, “Tolkien and Middle English Literature,” in “Chaucer and his Context”; panel on The Two Towers (film), April 7, 2003.
• Invited Lecture, “The Gendering of Mythography in the Late Middle Ages," NEH Lecture, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, March 18, 2003.
• Invited Lecture, Rice University Alumni College, on “Tolkien and the Re-Making of the Middle Ages: The Epic and the Book,” Medieval Fact and Fiction Track, Rice University, Houston, TX, March 1, 2003.
• Invited Lecture, “Tolkien and the Modern World,” Rice Alumnus Kirk Heyne’s 47th Birthday Celebration, Courtlandt Place, Houston, Texas, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2003.
• Guest Lecture, “Tolkien’s Women: The Film and the Book,” Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX, Jan. 14, 2003.
• Invited Workshop Director, “The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power,” and Marathon Reader, “The Two Towers: Marathon Reading Celebration,” English Dept., Cleveland State University and The Edge Lutheran Campus Ministry, Ohio, Nov. 14, 15, 2002.
• Invited Lecture, “Tolkien and Middle-earth,” Rice University Society of Women, St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Houston, TX, Nov. 11, 2002.
• Invited Lecture, “Filming an Epic: Peter Jackson’s Interpretation of Fellowship of the Ring.” Rice University Alumni Group-Austin, Austin, Texas, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2002.
• Invited Panelist, “Gender Summit: Toward Human Understanding,” with Canon Betty Adam, Pastor Troy Plummer, and Pittman McGee, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, Texas, September 24, 2002.
  • Invited Lecture, “Representing Rebellion: Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and the Castration of Saturn,” “ Medieval Literature, Languages and Culture: A Symposium in Memory of Professor Margaret Schlauch (1898-1986),” School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, organized by Sheila Delaney and A. Jacek, May 13-15, 2002.
  • Invited Lecture, “Performativity in Christine de Pizan and the Remythification of Classical Women,” Conference on “Ritual, Procession, Performance, and Performativity” organized by Professor Nancy Van Deusen, Music, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA, Nov. 9, 2001.
  • Guest Lecture with slides, “Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Food and its Contexts,” Early Conversations Lecture for Ensemble Anonymous, Houston Early Music, St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas, April 20, 2001.
  • Invited Lecture, "The Castration of Saturn: The Abuse of Power and Kingship in Chaucer," University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, Oct. 5, 2000.
  • Plenary Lecture, "The Castration of Saturn: The Abuse of Power in Chaucer," for "Six Centuries after the Deaths of Chaucer and Richard II," Annual Texas Medieval Association, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, Sept. 9, 2000.
  • Keynote Speech, "Christine de Pizan and the 'Remythisization' of Women," Medieval Studies Forum, English Department, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., Sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan, April 21, 2000.
  • "Christine de Pizan and the 'Remythisization' of Women," Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, R.O.C., Sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan, April 20, 2000.
  • "Chaucer's Wife of Bath as Medieval Cleric," Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R. O. C., Sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan, April 18, 2000.
  • Semi-Plenary Speaker, "Fabulizing Subjectivity in the ‘Literature of Dissent’: The Classical Gods in Late Medieval France and England:" Fourth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Classical Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany, Aug. 2, 1998
  • Guest Lecturer, "Christine de Pizan and the City of Ladies," Preceding the Newberry Consort Concert of Medieval Music, Houston Early Music Society, St. Paul's Methodist Church, Houston, Texas, Nov. 4, 1997.
  • Guest Lecturer, "The Genealogy of the Graeco-Roman Gods in the Middle Ages" (with slides), Second Annual Lecture on Italian Archaeology, Friends of Archaeology at the University of St. Thomas, The Federation of Italian-American Organizations of Greater Houston, Inc., and the Italian Cultural and Community Center, Houston, TX, Oct. 5, 1997.
  • Guest Lecture, "J. R. R. Tolkien's Unruly Women," Brigid's Place, Christchurch Episcopal Cathedral, Houston, TX, Oct. 1, 1997.
  • Guest Lecture, "Professing Woman," Brigid's Place, Christchurch Episcopal Cathedral, Houston, TX, June 4, 1997.
  • Guest Lecture on "Dante's `Monsters' as Deformation of the Natural: Schismatic Poet Bertrand de Born (Inf. 28) and Childless Mother Hecuba (Inf. 30)," Conference on "I monstra nell'Inferno dantesco: tradizione e simbologie," Organized by Tullio Gregory, XXXIII Convegno storico internazionale del Centro Italiano di Studi sul Basso Medioevo-Accademia Tudertina, Universitŕ degli Studi di Perugia, Centro di Studi sulla Spiritualitŕ Medievale, Todi, Italy, Oct. 16, 1996.
  • Inaugural Lectures for Brigid's Place on Medieval Visionary Women: "Speaking in her Own Voice: Heretic, Preacher, and Philosopher (Marguerite Porete, Margery Kempe, and Christine de Pizan)," "Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies; A Feminist Mythology," and "St. Catherine of Siena, Dyer's Daughter, in Late Medieval Britain," A Series Organized by Canon Betty Adam, Women's Assembly, Christ Church Cathedral, 1117 Texas Ave., Houston, TX, September 4, 11, and 18, 1996.
  • Guest Lecture, "Sex, Lies, and Mythography: The Classical Gods and Heroes in the Middle Ages" (Slide Lecture), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, May 18, 1995.
  • Guest Panelist, Debate on Canonicity, Department of English, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, May 18, 1995.
  • Keynote Speech, "Reading Medieval Women," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, May 12, 1995.
  • Guest Lecture, "St. Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval Britain: Feminizing Literary Reception through Gender and Class," Annual Medieval Lecture, Sponsored by the Departments of English and Women's Studies, University of Texas, Austin, Tex., Dec. 1, 1994.
  • Guest Lecture, "Medieval Mythography: Margin as Text, Text as Image," Medieval Studies Program, Organized by Richard Neuhauser, Trinity University, San Antonio, Tex., April 14, 1994.
  • Guest Lecture, "Positionality in Chaucerian Feminism: The Figure of Medea," Medieval Studies Program, Organized by Bonnie Wheeler, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex., March 1, 1994.
  • Guest Lecture, "Christine de Pizan as Literary Mother: Female Authority and Subjectivity in Fifteenth-Century English Writing," First International Conference on Christine de Pizan, Organized by Margarete Zimmerman, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, June 4, 1992.
  • Guest Lecture on The English Department, North Texas English Department, University of North Texas, Denton, Tex., April 9, 1992.
  • Guest Lecture, "Originality and Marginality: Pallas Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and Christine de Pizan," The English Department, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 15, 1989.
  • Guest Lecture, "Humanism and the Humanities: The Department as Comitatus," English Department, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 14, 1989.
  • Guest Lecture, "The Self-Mythography of Jankyn and Alisoun in Chaucer's 'Book of Wicked Wives,'" Department of English, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., January 26, 1988.
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