Richard H. Godden
Department of English
Louisiana State University
Allen Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
2017-
Louisiana State University, Assistant Professor
2016-2017 Loyola University New Orleans, Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance
Literature
2015-2016
Tulane University, Assistant Director of Freshman Writing
2012-2016
Tulane University, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
2011
Maryville University, Associate Instructor
2009-2011
Washington University in St. Louis, Assistant Director of Writing
EDUCATION
2009
Washington University in St. Louis, Ph.D. in English Literature
Dissertation: “Fame’s Untimeliness”
2000
Washington University in St. Louis, A.M. in English Literature
1999
Eastern Connecticut State University, B.A. (magna cum laude) in English
PUBLICATIONS
Edited Books/Journal Issues
2019
Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World, edited with Asa
Mittman. Palgrave.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2021
“Flesh.” New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer. Eds. Matthew Irvin, Stephanie Batkie,
and Lynn Shutters, ARC Humanities Press, 269-284.
2020
“Neighboring Disability in Medieval Literature.” Exemplaria (Special Issue on Neighbors,
Neighborhoods, and Neighboring), Eds. Emily Houlik-Ritchey and Heather Blurton, 32.3,
229-247.
2020
“Mobility Impairment: The Social Horizons of Disability in the Middle Ages.” A Cultural
History of Disability in the Middle Ages. Eds. Jonathan Hsy, Joshua Eyler, and Tory Pearman,
Bloomsbury Press, 35-49.
2019
“Building ‘Monsters.’” With Asa Mittman. Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the
Medieval and Early Modern World. Palgrave.
2018
“Universal Design and Its Discontents.” With Jonathan Hsy. Disrupting the Digital
Humanities. Punctum Books. Eds. Jesse Stommel and Dorothy Kim. (“Part I” authored solo
with a joint introduction)
2016
“Prosthetic Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies and the Dismodern Subject in Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight.” Textual Practice (Special Issue on Prosthesis), Eds. Katie Walter, Chloe Porter,
and Margaret Healy, 30.7, 1273-1290. *Reprinted in Prosthesis in Medieval and Early Modern
Culture, Routledge 2018.
2016
“Gawain and the Nick of Time: Fame, History, and the Untimely in Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight.” Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies 26.4, 150-171. *Awarded the James
Randall Leader Essay Prize for best work published on an Arthurian subject in a given year.
2013
“Analytical Survey: Encountering Disability in the Middle Ages.” With Jonathan Hsy. New
Medieval Literatures 15, 317-343.
2011
“Getting Medieval in Real Time.” postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 2.3, 267-
277.
2007
“The Medieval Sense of History.” Misconceptions about the Middle Ages. Eds. Stephen L. Harris
and Bryon L. Grigsby. London: Routledge. 204-212.
In Progress
Material Subjects: An Ecology of Prosthesis in Medieval Literature and Culture (monograph)
The Oxford Handbook of Disability and Literatures in English, c. 700–1500, eds. Richard H. Godden, Leah Pope
Parker, and Tory Vandeventer Pearman (edited collection), Under Contract
“Epilogue: Curative Time and Crip Ancestorship.” Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages, eds. Stephanie
Grace-Petinos, Leah Pope Parker, and Alicia Spencer-Hall, Amsterdam University Press.
Forthcoming, 2023
Short Essays/Reviews/Digital Humanities
2023
Review of Sarah Breckenridge Wright, Mobility and Identity in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,
Boydell & Brewer, 2020. Journal of Germanic and English Philology 122.2, 282-284.
2023
Review of Will Rogers, Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England, Amsterdam
University Press, 2021. Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 98.2, 642-644.
2022
“Fame.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia. Eds. Jessica Rosenfeld, Vincent Gillespie, and Katie
Walter. Wiley-Blackwell. (1000 words)
2017
Co-Editor, The Open Access Companion to The Canterbury Tales
(https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu)
2017
“St. Erkenwald” in The Encyclopedia of Medieval British Literature. Eds. Robert Rouse and Sian
Echard. Wiley-Blackwell, 2017. (1000 words)
2016
“Making Disability Part of the Conversation: Combatting Inaccessible Spaces and Logics.”
With Anne-Marie Womack. Hybrid Pedagogy (1200 words, Peer-Reviewed)
http://www.digitalpedagogylab.com/hybridped/making-disability-part-of-the-
conversation/
2015
“Errant Practices.” How We Write: An Assemblage in about 12 Pieces. Ed. Suzanne Conklin
Akbari. Punctum Books, 2015.
INVITED TALKS/PLENARIES
2023
“Cripping Langland’s Will.” MAA Webinar – Medieval Crip Theory: New Approaches and Provocations.
The Medieval Academy of America. April 12, 2023.
2022
“Companionable Ecologies: Animality and Disability in Medieval Romance.” Plenary Talk. The
Southeastern Medieval Association, November 10, 2022, Birmingham, AL
2020
“The Future of Medieval Disability Studies is Now.” The Future of Medieval Disability Studies: An
ACMRS Roundtable. Sponsored by The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies. November 19, 2020. https://youtu.be/6LxL-hCexnY
2021
“Disabling Will.” Piers Expo 2021, International Piers Plowman Society, Virtual
2021
“Material Miracles: An Ecology of Healing in the Middle Ages.” The 56
th
International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2019
“Disability and Its Intersections.” Respondent. The 47
th
Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare
Association of America, Washington, DC
2018
“Material Selves: Impairment and the Ecology of Objects in Saints' Lives.” The 2018
Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Toronto, ON
2016
“Shared Practices and Shakespearean Communities.” Respondent. The 44
th
Annual Meeting
of the Shakespeare Association of America, New Orleans, LA
2016
“Neighboring the Wilderness in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” The 42
nd
Annual Sewanee
Medieval Colloquium. Sewanee, TN
2016
“Disrupting the Digital Humanities: New Radical Publics.” Participant/Speaker. The 131
st
MLA Annual Convention, Austin, TX
2015
“Flirting with Integrity: Prosthetics and the Dismodern Body in Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight.” The 50
th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2015
“Neighboring Wastelands, Catastrophic Hospitality, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”
The 50
th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2015
“De/Coupling Monstrosity and Disability.” Panel Organizer. The 50
th
International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2015
“Love Thy Neighbor?” Panel Organizer. The 50
th
International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2014
“Prosthetic Neighbors: Enabling Community in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame
Ragnelle.” The 49
th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2014
“Humanities Accessed.” Presentation for “Disability Studies and the Digital Humanities (A
Roundtable).” The 49
th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
2014
“#;()@?":--*!” Panel Organizer. The 49
th
International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan
2013
“Anachronism as Responsible Pedagogy.” Productive Anachronisms Roundtable. The 48
th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2012
“Temporary Neighbors: Strange Encounters in Medieval Romance.” The Louisiana
Consortium of Medieval and Renaissance Scholars, New Orleans, LA
2012
“Monsters and Other Neighbors: The Stranger Knight in the Medieval Romance.” The 18
th
Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Portland, OR
2010
“Springtime for Specters: Untimely Romance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure.” The 45
th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2008
“Bodies and Boundaries I & II.” Panel Organizer. 34
th
Annual Meeting: Southeastern
Medieval Association, St. Louis, Missouri
2008
“Fame’s Dead Bodies.” 34
th
Annual Meeting: Southeastern Medieval Association, St. Louis,
Missouri
2008
“Names Lost: Memory and History in St. Erkenwald.” The 43
rd
International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Louisiana State University
Disability and Literature
SP23
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Grad Seminar)
SP22
Dissertation Seminar
FL21
Honors: Medieval Civilization
FL21
The Monstrous Imagination (Gen Ed)
FL20
Arthurian Literature (Grad Seminar)
FL20
Fantasy Literature
SP20
Disability and Literature
FL19
Medieval Romance and the Nonhuman (Grad Seminar)
SP19
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Several sections
Arthurian Literature
FL18, FL22
British Lit I
Several sections
Divergent Bodies in the Middle Ages (Grad Seminar)
SP18
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
2023
Regents Research Grant for Fall 2023, Department of English, LSU
2021
ACMRS Short Term Residency ($7500, Not Funded)
2019
Manship Summer Fellowship ($5000, Funded)
2018
Manship Summer Fellowship ($5000, Funded)
AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS
Robert Udick Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, LSU, 2023
Tiger Athletic Foundation Undergraduate Teaching Award, LSU, 2019
James Randall Leader Prize, International Arthurian Society North American Branch, 2017
Carter Fellowship, Loyola University, October 2016
Postdoctoral Teaching Award, Tulane University, May 2016
Newcomb College Institute Research Grant, Tulane University, May 2014
Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Grant, Tulane University, 2012, 2013, 2015
ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Program Committee, International Piers Plowman Society, 2023 Conference
Executive Committee, Department of English, Louisiana State University, 2022-2023
Annual Evaluations Subcommittee, Roadmap to Diversity Committee, Louisiana State University, 2020-
Present
Diversity Committee, Humanities and Social Sciences, Louisiana State University, 2020-Present
Diversity Committee, Department of English, Louisiana State University, 2020-2021
Graduate Committee, Department of English, Louisiana State University, 2017-2020, 21-22
Assistant Director of the Freshman Writing Program, Tulane University, 2015-2016
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS and SOCIETIES
Modern Language Association
The New Chaucer Society
International Piers Plowman Society