Publications by Professor Valerie Allen

Books

•  On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages . New York: Palgrave, 2006.

•  New Casebooks: Chaucer . Houndmills, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1997. [co-edited with Ares Axiotis]

Long Chapters

•  "Medieval English." In English Literature in Context , ed. Paul Poplawski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2007).

Currently Under Review

  • "Difficult Reading." In Levinas and the Middle Ages , ed. Ann Astell and Justin Jackson. Under review with Duquesne University Press.
  • " Se7en : Medieval Justice, Modern Justice." Under review with the Journal of Popular Culture .

Book Chapters, Articles, Translations, Bibliographical Essays, etc.

•  "Middle English: Chaucer." In Year's Work in English Studies , 85. Oxford: Blackwell (forthcoming 2006). [co-written with Margaret Connolly]

•  "Middle English: Chaucer." In Year's Work in English Studies , 84. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005, pp. 222-55. [co-written with Margaret Connolly]

•  "Playing Soldiers: Tournament and Toxophily in Late-Medieval England," in 'The Key of all Good Remembrance': Studies in Middle English Literature Presented to John Scattergood , ed. Anne Marie D'Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005, pp. 35-52.

•  "Waxing Red: Shame and the Body, Shame and the Soul." In The Representation of Women's Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Culture , ed. Lisa Perfetti. University Press of Florida, 2005, pp. 191-210.

•  "Middle English: Chaucer." In Year's Work in English Studies , 83. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, pp. 194-224. [co-written with Margaret Connolly]

•  "Broken Air." Exemplaria , 16.2 (2004): 305-22.

•  "Middle English: Chaucer." In Year's Work in English Studies , 82. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 190-223. [co-written with Margaret Connolly]

"Middle English: Chaucer." In Year's Work in English Studies , 81. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 230-60. [co-written with Margaret Connolly]

  • "Heidegger's Art of Teaching." In Heidegger, Education, and Modernity , ed. Michael Peters. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, pp. 27-45. [co-authored with Ares Axiotis].
  • "Middle English: Chaucer." In Year's Work in English Studies , 80. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, pp. 183-210. [co-written with Margaret Connolly]
  • "Middle English: Chaucer." In, Year's Work in English Studies , 79. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, pp. 196-226. [co-written with Margaret Connolly]
  • " Pathein Mathein : Nietzsche on the Birth of Education." In, Nietzsche's Legacy for Education: Past and Present Values . Eds, Michael Peters, James Marshall, and Paul Smeyers. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. pp. 19-33. [co-authored with Ares Axiotis].
  • "Middle English: Chaucer." In, Year's Work in English Studies , 78. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, pp. 232-61. [co-written with Margaret Connolly]
  • "The Shape of the Vernacular." Envoi 9.1 (2000): 1-16.
  • "Middle English: Chaucer." In, Year's Work in English Studies , 77. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 212-51. [co-written with Margaret Connolly]
  • "Nietzsche On the Future of Education." Telos 111 (1998): 107-21. [co-authored with Ares Axiotis]
  • "Middle-Aged Bodies." Envoi 7.1 (1998): 1-21.
  • "Middle English: Chaucer."In, Year's Work in English Studies , 76. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998, pp. 159-207. [co-written with Margaret Connolly]
  • "Middle English: Chaucer." In, Year's Work in English Studies , 75. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997, pp. 167-200. [co-written with Margaret Connolly]
  • Emmanuel Levinas, "Martin Heidegger and Ontology" [trans. from French]. Diacritics , 26.1 (1996): 11-32. [co-authored with Ares Axiotis]
  • " 'My Place in the Sun': Reflections on the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas." Diacritics , 26.1 (1996): 3-10. [co-authored with Ares Axiotis]
  • "Middle English: Chaucer." In, Year's Work in English Studies , 74. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996, pp. 143-68. [co-written with Margaret Connolly]
  • "Heidegger High School." Oxford Literary Review , 17.1-2 (1995): 105-20. [co-authored with Ares Axiotis]
  • "Middle English: Chaucer." In, Year's Work in English Studies , 73. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995, pp. 150-70. [co-written with Lucinda Rumsey]
  • "Portrait of a Lady: Blaunche and the Descriptive Tradition." English Studies, 73.4 (1993): 324-342.
  • "Blaunche on Top and Alisoun on Bottom." In, " A Wyf Ther Was" : Essays on Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck , ed. Juliette D'Or. Liège: University of Liège Press, 1992, pp. 23-29
  • "Making Myths and the Merchant's Tale ." In Tea and Leg-Irons: New Feminist Readings from Scotland , ed. Caroline Gonda. London: Open Letters, 1992, pp. 99-116; 190-193.
  • "Sir Gawain: Cowardyse and the Fourth Pentad." Review of English Studies , ns, 43. 170 (1992): 181-193.
  • "The Firste Stok in Chaucer's Gentilesse : Barking up the Right Tree." Review of English Studies , ns , 40.160 (1989): 531-537.
  • "'Scot' as a Term of Abuse in Skelton's 'Against Dundas.'" Studia Neophilologia , 59 (1987): 19-23

Articles in Encyclopedias, Newsletters, and Non-Refereed Journals

  • "Brian Moore." In The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America . Ed. Michael Glazier. U Notre Dame P (1999). pp. 126-7
  • "Alien IV." Foreign Body , 2 (Spring 1994): 5-8
  • "What's the Matter?" Foreign Body , 1 (Fall 1993): 8-13
  • "Foreign Body at Stirling." CUE News: The Newsletter for the Council of University English , 5.3 (1993): 9-10. [co-authored with Ares Axiotis]
  • "Modularization." CUE News: The Newsletter for the Council of University English , 4.3 (1992): 7-8.

Book Reviews

  • Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger, eds. Queering the Middle Ages , Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 25 (2003), pp. 359-62.
  • William Desmond. Beyond Hegel and Dialectic: Speculation, Cult and Comedy . Albany, NY: SUNY P, 1992. Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain , 30 (Autumn/Winter, 1994): 77-9. [co-authored with Ares Axiotis]
  • Lee Patterson. Chaucer and the Subject of History . London: Routledge 1991. Review of English Studies, ns , 45 (1994): 410-412. [co-authored with Ares Axiotis]
  • Robert Bernasconi and Simon Critchley, eds. Re-Reading Levinas . London: Athlone 1991. Modern Language Review , 89, n.1 (January 1994): 141-142.
  • Jill Mann. Geoffrey Chaucer , Feminist Readings. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991. Review of English Studies , ns , 44, n.175 (August 1993): 405-406.
  • Elizabeth Robertson. Early English Devotional Prose and the Female Audience . Knoxville: U Tenn P, 1990. Review of English Studies , 44, ns , n.173 (February 1993): 89-90.