Boyda Johnstone EDUCATION. Bachelor of Arts (Hon.) in English, University of Calgary HONORS AND AWARDS

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1 Boyda Johnstone Department of English Fordham University Room 541W, Dealy Hall Bronx, NY (646) EDUCATION Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Fordham University, New York present Dissertation title: "Immersive Reading: Dreamers and Their Books in Late Medieval England" Chair: Jocelyn Wogan- Browne Committee members: Mary Erler, Nina Rowe Reader: Andrew Albin External Reader: Nicholas Watson (Harvard) Master of Arts in English, University of Calgary Thesis: Theatre of the Mind: Devotional Performance in MS Stowe 39 Supervisor: Prof. Jacqueline Jenkins Bachelor of Arts (Hon.) in English, University of Calgary HONORS AND AWARDS Senior Teaching Fellowship. Fordham Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Joseph- Armand Bombardier CGS Doctoral Scholarship Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), (rescinded due to Canadian residency requirement; replaced with SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship) Professional Development Funds, Fordham GSAS and Teaching Fellowship, Fordham GSAS, Fordham/York Bursary Exchange, Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham U., Summer Travel Grant, Fordham GSAS, Summer Graduate Assistantship, Fordham GSAS,

2 Johnstone CV 2 Charles J. Donahue Essay Prize, Fordham English Department, Spring Summer Research Fellowship, Fordham GSAS, Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarships, Faculty of Graduate Studies Open Scholarship Competition, University of Calgary, A.T.J. Cairns Memorial Scholarship, Department of English, University of Calgary, Canada Graduate Scholarships Program (CGS): Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement, SSHRC, Summer Canada Graduate Scholarship: Master's Scholarships, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, PUBLICATIONS Articles "Reading Images, Drawing Texts: Performing The Abbey of the Holy Ghost in British Library Stowe 39." Editing, Performance, Texts: New Practices in Medieval and Early Modern English Drama. Ed. Jacqueline Jenkins and Julie Sanders. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, Print. The Pen lookes to be canoniz d : John Newdigate III, Author and Scribe. Early Theatre 14.2 (2011). Co- authored with Kirsten Inglis. Reviews Rev. of Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance by Sharon Aronson- Lehavi. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 26 (2013): Rev. of Memory, Images, and the English Corpus Christi Drama, by Theodore K. Lerud. Early Theatre 12.1 (2009): CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Possessed by Dreams: Dream Interpretation Manuals in Late Medieval England. Panel sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence. Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo May Hook & Eye: A Roundtable on Feminist Blogging. Roundtable Discussion. Digital Diversity 2015: Writing/ Feminism/ Culture. Edmonton, AB. 7-9 May 2015.

3 Johnstone CV 3 "Reading the Walls of House of Fame: Toward a Hermeneutics of Stained Glass." New Chaucer Society 2014 Congress. Reykjavík, Iceland, July 18, In Defense of Poetry: The Privileging of Verse in a Fifteenth- Century Poetic Miscellany. Insular Books: Vernacular Miscellanies in Late Medieval Britain. British Academy, London, England. June 23, The vout of thy visage has wounded us all! : Penetrative Gazing in the Alliterative Morte Arthur. International Medieval Congress U of Leeds, England. July 11, 'Ther is doust for your drynke! : Food Matters in the Middle English Siege of Jerusalem. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Brown U, Providence, RI. March 31, Reading Images, Drawing Texts: The Illustrated Abbey of the Holy Ghost in British Library MS Stowe 39. Medieval Translator 2010: In Principio Fuit Interpres. Padova, Italy. July 26, CONFERENCE PANELS Organizer, with Zach Hines (U of Texas- Austin) and Elizaveta Strakhov (Northwestern U). Intent and the Haphazard in Medieval Books. New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress. London, England July (accepted) COURSES TAUGHT Texts & Contexts: Dreaming in Literature from the Medieval to the Modern (ENGL 2000 L19). Fordham University Lincoln Center, Spring This course investigates psychological and physiological theories of dreaming from the medieval to the modern, exploring how dreams and nightmares are used as imaginative motifs in literature and film. Responsible for all aspects of the course. Composition I (ENGL 1101): Writing Culture. Fordham University Lincoln Center, Fall courses. A basic writing course that teaches first- year students how to think critically about the world around them as they learn to write logical and persuasive college- level essays, and prepare for Composition II. Responsible for all aspects of the course. Composition I (ENGL 1101), Fordham University Rose Hill, Fall Composition II (ENGL 1102), Fordham University Rose Hill, 2012 and The required writing course for all undergraduates. This course teaches writing techniques that focus on proper grammar, sound logic and persuasive rhetoric (the classical trivium), and highlights the active relationship between writing and thinking, with a strong focus on social justice and responsibility. Responsible for all aspects of the course. ACADEMIC SERVICE AND RELATED EXPERIENCE

4 Johnstone CV 4 Paid Participant. Jesuit Pedagogy Seminar, Fordham University. Spring This colloquium exposes Fordham graduate students preparing for University teaching to the values and pedagogy that characterize the nearly five- century- old tradition of Jesuit education. Blogger. Hook & Eye, a collaborative, academic, Canadian feminist blog present. Scholar. Wertheim Study Room, New York Public Library Guest blogger. In the Middle: A Medieval Studies Group Blog. Post: Who Gets a Voice on Twitter? 29 July, Volunteer. The 13 th York Manuscripts Conference: Cathedral Libraries and Archives in the British Isles. York, England. 2-4 July Editor, General Interest Column. Hortulus Journal President. Graduate English Association. Department of English, Fordham University, New York Editor. Rhetorikos. Undergraduate Online Journal. Department of English, Fordham University, New York, 2011 to Co- organizer. Remembering, Forgetting, Imagining: The Practices of Memory. Fordham University Graduate English Association Conference, Graduate Representative. Academic Affairs Committee, Fordham Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Seminar Participant. M- 20 Introduction to Western Codicology with Prof. Albert Derolez. Rare Book School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA June Actor. Mumming for the Mercers of London by John Lydgate. Dir. Meg Twycross and Elizabeth Dutton. Harlaxton Manor, England. 25 July Folger Seminar Participant. Shakespeare and Sacraments with Prof. Sarah Beckwith. Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. Spring Tutor. Fordham Rose Hill Writing Center RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Graduate Assistant, Department of English, Fordham University Supervisor: Prof. Eva Badowska.

5 Johnstone CV 5 Osborne Project Research Assistantship Department of English, University of Calgary Supervisor: Prof. Mary Polito. This SSHRC- funded project investigated an anonymous seventeenth- century manuscript owned by the University of Calgary, MS. Osborne Research Assistant, Department of English, University of Calgary Supervisor: Prof. Jacqueline Jenkins. Latin (reading) Spanish (reading, speaking) French (reading, speaking) Middle English (reading) LANGUAGES