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Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

b. 1955

American historian

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Born 1955. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton is a historian.

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton (born 1955) is a Canadian historian and Professor Emerita of English at the University of Notre Dame.

Biography Kerby-Fulton completed her PhD, titled "The voice of honest indignation : A study of reformist apocalypticism in relation to Piers Plowman" at the University of York in 1986.

From 1986 to 1998 she taught at the University of Victoria. In 1994 she received the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America for the 1990 publication of her PhD thesis as "Reformist Apocalypticism and Piers Plowman" (University of Cambridge Press). In 1996 she received the University's Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching and also became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Publications 1990. Reformist apocalypticism and Piers Plowman. University of Cambridge Press. 1997 (with S. Justice). Written work : Langland, labor, and authorship. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1999 (with D. L. Despres). Iconography and the professional reader: the politics of book production in the Douce Piers Plowman. University of Minnesota Press. 2005 (with L. Olsen). Voices in dialogue: reading women in the Middle Ages. University of Notre Dame Press. 2006. Books under suspicion: censorship and tolerance of revelatory writing in late medieval England. University of Notre Dame Press. 2009. Women and the divine in literature before 1700: essays in memory of Margot Louis. ELS Editions.

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1955
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University of York
Employers
University of Notre Dame
Awards
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; Guggenheim Fellowship; Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America

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