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HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Ganim, John

Professor of English

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

English


Biography

Professor Ganim works in the field of medieval English literature. His recent research covers how the Middle Ages is reimagined from century to century in aesthetic and political realms; how medieval literature and contemporary theory engage; and how the form of late medieval literature is shaped by its institutional contexts. He served as President (2006-2008) of the New Chaucer Society. He held a Guggenheim fellowship in 2001. Recently he has delivered the Presidential Address of the New Chaucer Society in Swansea, Wales in 2008; the keynote address at the Australian and New Zealand Medieval and Early Modern Studies Society, Adelaide, Australia, in 2007; the Distinguished Lecture Series of the Medieval Studies Program at the University of Texas in 2008 and the University Lecture in the series, "Populär, pittoresk, politisch? Das Mittelalter im Kino", at the Freie Universität, Berlin in 2009. Earlier invited lectures include the Annual Rossell Hope Robbins Lecture of the New York Medieval Club, the Fifth Annual Klaus Jankofsky Memorial Lecture, University of Minnesota, Duluth, and the Decherd Turner Bridwell Bibliophiles Lecture at Southern Methodist University and the Baillieu Library Annual Lecture at the University of Melbourne.

Former Institution

Professor Ganim has taught at UCR since 1974 after completing his doctorate

Degrees

Ph.D. English 1974

Indiana University

M.A. English 1969

Indiana University

B.A. English 1967

Rutgers University

Awards

2004 Visiting Arts Lecturer, University of Melbourne
2001-02 Guggenheim Fellowship, Origins of medieval culture
1991 Resident Fellow, Center for Ideas and Society
1978 Recipient of Humanities Institute Award
1977 Junior Faculty Award, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Member, Phi Beta Kappa
International Associate, Network for Early European Research, sponsored by the University of Western Australia and the Australian Research Council.


Research Area

Medieval literature; Intersections of literary and architectural theory

Publications

1. Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983.

2. Chaucerian Theatricality. Princeton N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.

3. Medievalism and Orientalism. New York and London: Palgrave/St. Martin's, 2004. Paper Edition 2008.

Selected Articles

“Chaucer, Boccaccio, Confession and Subjectivity.” In Brenda Schildgen and Leonard Koff, eds., The Decameron and the Canterbury Tales. Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999. Pp. 128-147.

“Native Studies: Orientalism and the Origins of the Middle Ages.” In Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, ed., The Post-Colonial Middle Ages. New York: St. Martins, 2000. Pp. 123-134.

“Cities of Words: Recent Studies on Urbanism and Literature.” Modern Language Quarterly 63:3 (2002): 365-382.

“Identity and Subjecthood” in The Oxford Student’s Guide to Chaucer, ed. Steve Ellis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp.224-238. [ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-925912-7.pdf]

Reversing the Crusades: Hegemony, Orientalism and Film Language in Chahine’s Saladin,” Filming the Other Middle Ages: Race, Class, and Gender in Medievalist Cinema. Eds. Tison Pugh and Lynne Ramey. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave, 2007. Pp. 45-58.

“Cosmopolitan Chaucer, or, The Uses of Local Culture” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 31 (2010): 3-21.

“Medieval noir: anatomy of a metaphor.” In Medieval Film. Eds Anke Bernau and Bettina Bildhauer. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009. Pp. 182-202.