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Virginia Blanton
Associate Professor, English & Religious Studies
English Department Co-Chair
Doctoral Faculty
16H Cockefair Hall
816.235.2766
blantonv@umkc.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
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Virginia Blanton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she serves as doctoral faculty in English and Religious Studies. Her research focuses on medieval hagiography and religious ritual, as well as the representations of women in religious culture. She is the author of Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Æthelthryth in Medieval England, 695-1615 (Penn State Press, 2007), which was awarded the Society of Medieval Feminist Scholarship First Book Prize in 2008. She is also co-editor of Intertexts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Paul E. Szarmach (MRTS, 2008). She is the editor of two issues of the Medieval Feminist Forum, issue 42 (2006) and 43 (2007). In addition, she is co-editor of Medieval Women in Film and serves on the Editorial Board of Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art. Her current projects include a critical edition of medieval manuscript, titled Reading Nuns: A Critical Edition of a Middle-English Legendary, co-edited with Veronica O'Mara, and a monograph, titled Shaping English Identities: Sanctity and Devotion Late Medieval England.
Degrees:
- Ph.D., English, Binghamton University
- Graduate Certificate of Midieval Studies, Binghamton University
- M.A., English, Binghamton University
- B.A., English & Foreign Languages, Southwestern College
Areas of Specialization:
- Old and Middle English Languages and Literatures
- Arthurian Legends
- Medieval Romance
- Hagiography and Religious Studies
- Women's and Gender Studies
Courses:
- ENG 317: British Literature I
- ENG 323: Shakespearean Drama
- ENG 325: Arthurian Legends
- ENG 330: History of the English Language
- ENG 400/5566: Courts and Culture of the Middle Ages (cluster course)
- ENG 412/5512: Chaucer
- ENG 422/5522: Medieval Literature
- ENG 404/5503: Old English
- ENG 5550: Seminar: The Cultural Politics of Medieval Romance
Other:
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