Laura Christine Godfrey
laurachristinegodfrey@gmail.com
laura.godfrey@uconn.edu
Education:
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Ph.D., Medieval Studies
Expected May 2019
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
M.A., English
The Devotional Significance of the Cross in Medieval Literature
Mary Hayes (Advisor), Gregory Heyworth, Steven Justice
May 2014
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
B.A. with honors, English
B.A., Spanish
Femininity and Monasticism: Chaucer’s Prioress as a Representation of Female Monasticism
Malcolm Richardson (Advisor), Maribel Dietz, Sarah Liggett
Dec 2010
Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain
Spring 2009
Work in Progress
“Creating a Non-Patriarchal Lineage in Bertha Harris’s Lover.” This Book Is An Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist
Aesthetics. Eds. Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr. University of Illinois Press (Forthcoming).
Conference Presentations:
“The Resurrection Miniature in Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Latin 440” International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. 14-17 May 2015.
“The Allegory of Hunger in Piers Plowman A.” Yale/UConn Graduate Consortium, Storrs, CT. 13 February 2015.
“Transubstantiation of the Cross in the York Play of the Crucifixion” Works-in-Progress Seminar, Oxford, MS. 6 March 2014.
“The Rood as Devotional ‘Thing.’” South Central Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, LA. 3-5
October 2013.
“Creating a Non-Patriarchal Lineage in Bertha Harris’s Lover.” Isom Student Gender Conference, Oxford, MS. 19
March 2013.
“The ‘Thingness’ of the Host in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament.” South Central Modern Language Association
Conference, San Antonio, TX. 4 October 2012.
“Vampiric Blood of Christ? Eucharistic Legends and the Modern Fascination with the Vampire.” Popular/American
Culture Association of the South, Nashville, TN. 28 September 2012.
“A Gendered Profession: Chaucer’s Prioress as a Satirical Representation of Medieval Female Monasticism.” National
Undergraduate Literature Conference, Ogden, UT. April 2011.
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant, First-Year Writing Program, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
ENGL 1010: Seminar in Academic Writing
Aug 2014 – Present
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
ENGL 385: Shakespeare
Instructor: Ivo Kamps
Jan 2014 – May 2014
Graduate Instructor, Department of English, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
ENGL 375: Introduction to Medieval Studies
June 2013
Graduate Instructor, Center for Writing and Rhetoric, Univ of Mississippi, Oxford, MS Aug 2012 – Dec 2013
WRIT 100: First-Year Composition I
WRIT 102: First-Year Composition II
Theme: Literature as Argument
Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
ENGL 225: British Literature to the Eighteenth Century
Instructor: Gregory Heyworth
ENGL 226: British Literature since Romantic Period
Instructor: Daniel Stout
Aug 2011 – May 2012
ESL Instructor, Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA
June 2010-June 2011
Composition Tutor, Louisiana State University Writing Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Jan 2008- July 2010
Professional Service:
 Program Assistant, Medieval Studies Program, University of Connecticut, Spring 2015.
 Quality Enhancement Program writing assessment, Center for Writing and Rhetoric, University of Mississippi,
December 2014.
 Quality Enhancement Program writing assessment, Center for Writing and Rhetoric, University of Mississippi,
January 2014.
 Chair, Graduate Women’s Group, Graduate Student Council, University of Mississippi, January-May 2014.
 Senator, Graduate Student Council, University of Mississippi, September 2013-May 2014.
 Secretary, English Graduate Student Board, University of Mississippi, May 2013-May 2014.
 Reader, English Graduate Student Colloquium Committee, University of Mississippi, April 2013.
 Quality Enhancement Program writing assessment, Center for Writing and Rhetoric, University of Mississippi,
October 2013.
 Curriculum Development Committee for Writing 100, Center for Writing and Rhetoric, University of Mississippi, Aug
2011 to May 2012.
 Quality Enhancement Program writing assessment, Center for Writing and Rhetoric, University of Mississippi,
October 2012.
Professional Affiliations:
 Modern Language Association
 South Central Modern Language Association
 Medieval Academy of America
Languages:
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Latin
Middle English
Old English
Spanish