Faculty
Mimi Ensley
Assistant Professor
Professional Profile
Dr. Mimi Ensley specializes in medieval and early modern English literature. She's especially interested in how late medieval texts were read and re-produced across time.
Her most recent book, "Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance (Manchester University Press, 2023)," approaches this question from a book historical perspective and asks how Middle English romances were used and understood after the Protestant Reformation in England.
Research
Education
- PhD in English, University of Notre Dame
- MA in Medieval Literatures, University of York
- BA in English and Journalism, University of Georgia
Scholarly Monograph
"Difficult Pasts: Post-Reformation Memory and the Medieval Romance." Manchester University Press, 2023.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- "'And I awaked therewith:' Piers Plowman, the Settlement Movement, and Service Learning." Yearbook of Langland Studies, vol. 38, 2024 (Forthcoming, with Thomas Goodmann.).
- "Correction, Modernization, and Elaboration in a Seventeenth-Century Translation of John Lydgate's Troy Book." Studies in Philology, vol. 119, no. 3, 2022, pp. 469-94.
- "'Profitable' Gower: Commonplacing and the Early Modern Confessio Amantis." Journal of English and Germanic Philology, vol. 121, no. 2, 2022, pp. 202-26.
- "Meeting Lydgate's Ghost: Building Medieval History in Seventeenth-Century England." Review of English Studies, vol. 71, 2020, pp. 251-271.
- "Framing Chaucer's Plowman." Yearbook of Langland Studies, vol. 32, 2018, pp. 331-49.
- "Reading Chaucer in the Tower: The Person Behind the Pen in an Early-Modern Copy of Chaucer's Works." Journal of the Early Book Society, vol. 18, 2015, pp. 136-57.
Selected Recent Conference Presentations
- "Found Out, and Brought to Light: A Non-Spenserian Completion of Chaucer's Squire's Tale." 22nd Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. Durham U. (July 2022)
- "The Romance of Piers Plowman: Reading William Langland after Walter Scott." Southeastern Medieval Association. Wofford College. (November 2021)
- Discussant in "Teaching Medieval Topics beyond the Seminar Table" Roundtable. International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. (May 2021)
- "It Debunked all of my Expectations: Pre-Modern Materiality and the Composition Classroom." Pedagogy and the Pre-modern. Duke U. (March 2020)
- "Creating a Humanist Gower in Print." Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Chicago. (January 2019)
- "Inscribing the Tradition: A Recusant Catholic's Romance Manuscripts." 21st Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society. U. of Toronto. (July 2018)
- "Monuments, Memory, and Patronage in Lydgate's Guy of Warwick.'" 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan U. (May 2018)
- "Manuscript, Romance, and the Visual Language of Print." Bibliography Among the Disciplines. Rare Book School, Philadelphia. (October 2017)