Anita Obermeier

Anita Obermeier has written on Arthurian literature, Beowulf, Chaucer, Susan Faludi, Hildegard von Bingen, Jean de Meun, Marguerite de Navarre, Petrarch, Naomi Mitchison, Braveheart, Twain, and saints Anne and Joachim. Her research interests include authorial self-representations and intertextuality, feminist, gender, and queer studies, medieval medical writing, medievalism, mystics, saints, and women--some of which culminated in her comparative book, The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European Middle Ages (Rodopi 1999) and her recent co-edited volume, Romance and Rhetoric (Brespols 2010). Her new book project is a medical, historical, theological, and literary study titled, Human, Divine, and Demonic Conception in Medieval Art, Culture, and Literature. Her most recent major article “The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context” appeared in Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice (U of Toronto P, 2012).