3 5 6 O S H A U G H N E S S Y H A L L, E N G L I S H D E P A R T M E N T, U N I V E R S I T Y O F N O T R E D A M E, N O T R E D A M E, I N 4 6 5 5 6, ( 9 4 9 ) 7 4 2-0 6 5 9 K W R I G H T 2 @ N D. E D U KATY WRIGHT - BUSHMAN EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature expected 5.2014 University of Notre Dame Primary field: Middle English literature Interests: religion & literature, early modern poetry, Old English literature, historiography & periodization Certificate: Striving for Excellence in Teaching, the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning (February 2013) Defended dissertation proposal and presented draft of 12.9.2011 introductory chapter to dissertation committee: Reading Lyric before Lyric: Medieval English Religious Poetry across Religious and Textual Cultures Masters of Arts in English Literature 5.2011 University of Notre Dame Comprehensive exam fields: Middle English (primary historical field); Old English (secondary historical field); religion & literature, historiography & periodization, and lyric theory (theory & methodology) Bachelor of Arts in English Literature 6.2008 with minors in History and Women s Studies, summa cum laude California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS, AND AWARDS Publications Pending: Wright-Bushman, Katy, and Hannah Zdansky. Religion in/and/all over Medieval Literature. Religion & Literature. Pending: Wright-Bushman, Katy and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton. Review of Nancy Bradley Warren s The Embodied Word: Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350-1700. The Medieval Review TMR. Forthcoming: Wright-Bushman, Katy and Robin Kirkpatrick. Introduction. Acknowledged Convictions and Ongoing Conversation: A Forum in Response to Religion & Literature 42.1-2. Religion & Literature. Expected fall 2013. Forthcoming: Wright-Bushman, Katy. Review of Clare Costley Kingoo's Miserere Mei: The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Comitatus 44. Expected fall 2013. Forthcoming: Wright-Bushman, Katy. A Poetics of Consenting Attention: Simone Weil s Prayer and the Poetry of Denise Levertov. Christiantiy & Literature. Expected spring 2013.
Wright, Katy. The Role of Dialect Representation in Speaking From the Margins: The Lesson of Toni Cade Bambara. Style 42.1 (Spring 2008). Conference Panel Chair and Organization Assistant to the conference organizers: The Hospitable Text: New Approaches to Religion & Literature, conference on religion and literature (Notre Dame London Centre, 14-16 July 2011) Chair: Eucharistic Language, panel at The Hospitable Text: New Approaches to Religion & Literature, conference on religion and literature (Notre Dame London Centre, 14-16 July 2011) Chair: Poetic Reimagining in Late Medieval and Early Modern England: Characters, Narratives, Predecessors, panel on late medieval and early modern poetry, at The Sincerest Form: Literary Imitation, Adaptation, and Parody, English graduate conference (University of Notre Dame, 4 March 2011) Conference Presentations Children thou shalt bring / In sorrow forth : The Coherence and Medical Rootedness of Childbirth Imagery in John Milton's Prose and Poetry at the Renaissance Arts of Science and Nature English graduate student conference (University of Michigan, 20 February 2010) Teaching Hagiography as Narrative Theology (roundtable discussion), at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, 10 May 2009) Transcendence and Subversion Enclosed within Chaucer s Seconde Nonnes Tale, at the Religion, Literature and the Arts: Theology and Critique conference (University of Iowa, March 2008) The Womanhood of Dame Julian: Creating Devotional and Theological Meaning Through the Feminine, at the Significations: Graduate Research Conference (California State University of Los Angeles, April 2007) Accepted and scheduled, but not attended: Interior Glossing as Spiritual Practice: M. N. s Ethic of Reading in the Middle English Mirror of Simple Souls at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan University, 14 May 2010) Abstract submitted, 21 August 2012: Eciam haec Uxor: What is Chaucer s Wife of Bath Talking About? at The Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies 2013 Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference (The Newberry Library, Chicago, 24-26 January 2013). Working Group Contribution Mellon Initiative on Religion across the Disciplines, working group on literature and religion, University of Notre Dame, participant (9 established scholars, 3 graduate students), spring 2011-spring 2013 Awards Mellon Summer Stipend, from the Mellon Initiative on Religion across the Disciplines, University of Notre Dame, $6000 (Spring 2013)
Senior Academic Excellence award (single recipient), College of Liberal Arts (California Polytechnic State University, June 2008) Ralph Wilmar Women s Educational Opportunities scholarship (California Polytechnic State University, Summer 2007) National Merit Scholar, plus substantial academic scholarship (Pepperdine University, Fall 2004) GRADUATE COURSEWORK AND LANGUAGES Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 Medieval Drama Hagiography Spenser and Epic Romance Introduction to Graduate Studies Controversy and Censorship in Middle English Literature Early Chaucer Milton Teaching Practicum Fall 2009 - Spring 2010 Introduction to Middle English Manuscripts Old English Early Modern Devotional Literature (audit) The Long Fourteenth Century and the Rise of English Literature Beowulf Medieval Liturgies (audit) Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats Twentieth-Century Poetry and Theory: Convergences between Philosophy, Theology, Socio-linguistic Theory and Poetics Additional Courses From Chaucer to Thomas More: New Historicism and Contemporary Historical Methods for Literary Scholarship, fall 2010 Historiography and Periodization (directed readings), fall 2010 Old English Poetry (directed readings), spring 2011 The Psalter: Lyric and Community (audit), spring 2012 Languages: Old English, achieved reading proficiency and passed Notre Dame English department secondary field reading exam (Notre Dame, spring 2011) French, achieved reading proficiency in French and passed Notre Dame reading exam (Notre Dame, summer 2010)
Latin, studied intensive beginning Latin and passed the Notre Dame reading exam (Notre Dame, summer 2009) German, intermediate high level (Cal Poly, fall 2007) TEACHING, EDITING, SERVICE, AND TUTORING EXPERIENCE Teaching Instructor, undergraduate English course (self-designed), Christ and Antichrist in Literature (Engl 20162), University of Notre Dame (Fall 2012) Instructor, undergraduate rhetoric and composition course (self-designed), First Year Composition (FYC 13100), University of Notre Dame (Fall 2009 and Spring 2010) Teaching Assistant, Elliott Visconsi s undergraduate English course, Introduction to the First Amendment (Engl 20156/Pols 30163), University of Notre Dame (Spring 2012) Editing Pending: Wright-Bushman, Katy, editor, with Robin Kirkpatrick. Acknowledged Convictions and Ongoing Conversation: A Forum in Response to Religion & Literature 42.1-2. Religion & Literature. Managing Editor, journal of Religion & Literature, University of Notre Dame (August 2010 August 2011) Assistant Book Review Editor, journal of Religion & Literature, University of Notre Dame (August 2011 August 2013) Peer reviewer, journal of Religion & Literature, University of Notre Dame: composed evaluations of three submitted manuscripts (2010 2011) Proofreader, journal of Religion & Literature, University of Notre Dame: proofread three articles for the journal (2009) Service and Tutoring Seminar Coordinator, Religion and Literature Initiative: part-time position organizing seminars at Notre Dame on topics in religion and literature (February 2013-December 2013) English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) Graduate Studies Committee Representative: one-year elected position working with faculty committee and EGSA (August 2012- August 2013) Writing tutor, Cal Poly University Writing Lab, San Luis Obispo: employment included ten weeks of training to teach and tutor undergraduates in composition (September 2007 June 2008) Research assistant and grader, Cal Poly: for Dr. Debora Schwartz, graduate coordinator and professor of medieval literature in the English department at California Polytechnic State University (October 2007 June 2008) Peer advisor, Student Orientation, Advising and Resources summer academic counseling program, San Luis Obispo: served as a trained advisor to incoming freshman English majors (July 2007) Editor and tutor, independent, Malibu (Pepperdine University) and San Luis Obispo (California Polytechnic State University): served as a paid writing tutor for students
ranging from the second grade to the senior year of college; edited the work of a number of professionals (October 2004 June 2007)