Richard Godden

Louisiana State University, English, Faculty Member

Washington University in St. Louis, English, Alumnus

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"Accessible Pasts"
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"Reflections on NCS Portland"
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"The Zombie Middle Ages"
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The University of Texas at Austin

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UNL - New University of Lisbon

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Charles University, Prague

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University of Florida

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The University of Texas at Austin

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University of Vienna

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University Of Bayreuth, Germany

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Essays by Richard Godden

"Getting Medieval in Real Time"

From making it easier to collaborate and share work to making manuscripts available through digit... more From making it easier to collaborate and share work to making manuscripts available through digital imaging, the emergence of new technologies such as email, digital media, Facebook, and Twitter have radically re-shaped what it means to do academic work. This essay explores the timeliness of these new technologies. Firstly, by 'timeliness' I do mean a sense of fortuitous timing. As an academic with a physical disability, the advent of email and electronic databases full of searchable journal articles could not have been more timely. Without tools like these, pursuing a PhD would have been far more laborious than it already was. But by 'timeliness' I am also asking the following question: How do we describe the time of the academic? Using my personal experiences as a starting point, I consider the intersection of Disability Studies and recent work on time and temporality in order to provide the beginnings of an answer. Rather than conceiving the time of the academic as that of working in solitude in our own pockets of time, I suggest that we consider how the social capabilities of new technologies produce a sense of being-together, of working at the same time.

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Selected Conference Presentations by Richard Godden

Anachronism as Responsible Pedagogy

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"Monsters and Other Neighbors: The Stranger Knight in Medieval Romance"

Spring Time for Specters: Untimely Romance in the Alliterative Morte Arthure

Articles (Academic Journals) by Richard Godden

Gawain and the Nick of Time: Fame, History, and the Untimely in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Arthuriana, 2016

Prosthetic Ecologies: Vulnerable Bodies and the Dismodern Subject in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Textual Practice, 2016

This essay reads Sir Gawain and the Green Knight through the lens of Disability Studies. Specific... more This essay reads Sir Gawain and the Green Knight through the lens of Disability Studies. Specifically, it explores how the technologies of chivalry (a knight's armour, his shield, and even his reputation) serve as prostheses that aid in shaping and fashioning the chivalric subject. As prostheses, Gawain's objects simultaneously complete a body that is consistently exposed as vulnerable while also bringing attention to its incompleteness. Without these objects, however, there would be no figure named Gawain. This analysis of Gawain's chivalric accoutrement reveals him to be a dismodern subject, that is, as inhabiting a subject position marked by interdependency, where completion means existing in a network with other bodies, social and material. This essay also looks to the new materialism in order to understand how Gawain's objects can become things, exerting a thing-power that promises excess and uncanniness alongside completion and wholeness. By bringing together Disability Studies and the new materialism, we can move beyond binaries of whole/part, healthy/unhealthy, subject/object in order to consider how the self functions in a prosthetic ecology comprised of both the human and the nonhuman.

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Analytical Survey: Encountering Disability in the Middle Ages (with Richard H. Godden). New Medieval Literatures, Vol. 15 (for 2013), eds. Laura Ashe, David Lawton, and Wendy Scase (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2015), pp. 313-339

by Jonathan Hsy and Richard Godden

New Medieval Literatures is an annual journal of work on medieval textual cultures. Its scope is ... more New Medieval Literatures is an annual journal of work on medieval textual cultures. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies. The title announces an interest both in new writing about medieval culture and in new academic writing. As well as featuring challenging new articles, each issue includes an analytical survey by a leading international medievalist of recent work in an emerging or established field. The editors aim to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Within this generous brief, they recognize only two criteria: excellence and originality.

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