Faculty
Heng, Geraldine
Associate Professor
Director, Medieval Studies Program.
Phone: (512) 471-7480
heng@mail.utexas.edu
Research interests:
International Medieval Cultures and Histories; Medieval Romance; Medieval English Literature; The Crusades; Chaucer; Arthurian Literature; Feminist, Race and Cultural Theory
Courses taught:
Recent Publications:
Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy, Columbia University Press, 2003. 512+ xii pp.
"Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Medieval Romance," differences 10.1, 1998
"The Romance of England: Richard Coer de Lyon, Saracens, Jews, and the Politics of Race and Nation," The Postcolonial Middle Ages, ed. Jeffrey Cohen, Garland, 2000 "A Woman Wants: The Lady, Gawain, and the Forms of Seduction," Yale Journal of Criticism, 5:3, 1992
"Femine Knots and the Other Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," PMLA, May 1991
"State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore", Nationalisms and Sexualities, eds Andrew Parker et al, Routledge 1991
"'A Great Way to Fly': Women, Nationalism, and the Varieties of Feminism in SE Asia," Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, eds M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Routledge, 1996. Books in Progress:
The Invention of Race in the Middle Ages
Select Publications in 2005:
"Jews, Saracens, 'Black Men,' Tartars: England in a World of Racial Difference, 13th- 15th Centuries." A Companion to Medieval English Literature, c. 1350-c. 1500. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Ed. Peter Brown, 2005.
"Music to My Ears: Pleasure, Resistance, and Feminist Aesthetics in Reading." Cambridge Companion to Feminist Area X. Ed. Ellen Rooney. Cambridge UP, 2005.
