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Curriculum Vitae

Jay Paul Gates

Assistant Professor [email protected] of English Mobile: 646.240.6866

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY Office: 646.557.4406524 W. 59th

Street, 07.63.35 Fax: 646.557.4865New York, NY 10019

Academic Appointments 2008 – present Assistant Professor (tenure-track), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY2007 – 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University2002 – 2007 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison2004 – 2007 Writing Tutor, Writing Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison2000 – 2001 Assistant de langue étrangère, Lycée Sophie Berthelot, Calais, France

EducationPh.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007

Minor in Scandinavian Studies

Dissertation: “The Rhetorical Construction of the Anglo-Saxon Kingship in Late Anglo-Saxon LegalDocuments and the Rise of Cnut’s Anglo-Scandinavian Empire”

Dissertation Director: A.N. Doane, Department of EnglishReaders: John D. Niles, Sherry L. Reames, Karl B. Shoemaker, Kirsten Wolf

M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

B.A. Oberlin College, 1999

Majors in Comparative Literature (with honors), English (with honors), French, History

Research and Teaching Interests

Medieval literature and languages, including Old English, Middle English, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old French

Community and nationHistoriographyHistory of the English languageLiterature and lawManuscript studies

Sex, gender, and sexuality in the Middle Ages and Antiquity

Publications

BooksEdited Volume: Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole

Marafioti. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014. (100,888 words)



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Refereed Articles and ChaptersArticle: “For Gode and For Worolde: Preaching, Politics, and Episcopal Reform in Wulfstan’s Early

Writings.” Early Medieval Europe (forthcoming, 2015). (10,966 words)

Article: “Reading Pronouns: An Entry to Medieval Textual Culture.” Studies in Medieval and RenaissanceTeaching 21 (forthcoming, 2015). (8,712 words)

Introduction: “Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England.” Capital and Corporal Punishmentin Anglo-Saxon England. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer,2014 (with Nicole Marafioti). (8,133 words)

Article: “The ‘Worcester’ Historians and Eadric Streona’s Execution.” Capital and Corporal Punishment inAnglo-Saxon England. Ed. Jay Paul Gates and Nicole Marafioti. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer,2014. (8,324 words)

Article: “Imagining Justice in the Anglo-Saxon Past: Eadric Streona, Kingship and the Search forCommunity.” The Haskins Society Journal 25 (2013). (11,120 words)

Article: “The Fulmannod Society: Social Valuing of the (Male) Legal Subject.” Castration and Culture in theMiddle Ages. Ed. Larissa Tracy. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2013, pp. 131 – 48. (9,235 words)

Article: “A Crowning Achievement: The Royal Execution and Damnation of Eadric Streona.” Heads WillRoll: Decapitation in the Medieval and Early Modern Imagination. Ed. Larissa Tracy and JeffMassey. Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 53 – 72. (8,626 words)

Article: “Ealles Englalandes Cyningc: Cnut’s Territorial Kingship and Wulfstan’s Paronomastic Play.” TheHeroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 14 (2010). (15,089 words)

Work in Progress

Article: “Doing God’s Work: Grammatical Interpretation and the Scribal Transmission of Cædmon’s Hymn.” Under review at Review of English Studies. (8,202 words)

Monograph: Wulfstan and Cnut: The Rhetoric of Rule. (90,000 words)

Teaching Experience and Courses Taught

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, 2008 – presentAssistant Professor

Legal Poetics: Early English Language, Law, and Literature (Senior Seminar in Literature and Law:Lit 405)

Medieval Mind and Emotion: Mentalities and Psychologies in Old English (Medieval HistoricalTopics: Lit 371)

Vikings! Invasion, Conquest, and Community in Anglo-Scandinavian England (Medieval HistoricalTopics: Lit 371)

Vikings, Settlers, and the Medieval North: The Sagas of Icelanders (Medieval Historical Topics: Lit371)

Clash of Cultures and Wrath of the Gods: Late Antiquity (Historical Topics in Antiquity: Lit 370)



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Gods & Monsters: Nordic Myth & Heroic Narrative (Mythology: Lit 360)The Name of the Rose: A Medieval Detective Story for a Postmodern Audience (Text and Context: Lit

300)Introduction to Literary Study (Lit 260)Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Lit 231)Literary Foundations: Vergil and Augustine (Classical Literature: Lit 230)History of the English Language (Eng 389)Composition II: Disciplinary Investigations: Exploring Writing Across the Disciplines (Eng 201)Composition I: Exploration and Authorship: An Inquiry-Based Writing Course (Eng 101)

Retrospection and Consequence in Biblical Narrative: Shaping Contemporary Criticism in 1 and 2Samuel (Senior Honors Thesis: Lit 489)

Decoding Grendel: A Poetics of Abjection (Senior Honors Thesis: Lit 489)Piety to Politics: The Fall of Rome to the Fall of Constantinople (Senior Honors Thesis: Lit 489)Celtic and Norse Women (Independent Study: Lit 389)

Purdue University, 2007 – 2008Postdoctoral Fellow

Invasion & Revolt: Writing Nation and Power in the Middle Ages (Eng 331)English Language I: History and Development (Eng 327)Introduction to Poetry (Eng 237)

University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002 – 2007Teaching Assistant

Hans Christian Andersen (Scandinavian Studies 275)Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Eng 215)Native American Literature (Eng 172)

Modern American Literature (Eng 169)Romantic and Victorian Literature (Eng 167)Introductory Composition (Eng 100)

Presentations

Invited Research TalksOctober 2013 “The Norse-Language Verse of Cnut’s English Court.” Friends of the Saints: The

Hagiography Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center.

February 2013 “For Gode and For Worolde: Preaching, Politics, and Episcopal Reform in Wulfstan’sEarly Writings.” Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography Workshop, CUNY GraduateCenter.

October 2012 “The Politics of Building the Holy Society: Wulfstan’s Later Writings.” Anglo-SaxonStudies Colloquium, Columbia University.

November 2011 “Ealles Englalandes Cyningc: The Grammatical Rhetoric of Cnut’s Kingship.” New

Directions in Medieval Studies Roundtable. CUNY Graduate Center.



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Invited Classroom LecturesMay 2011 “Swords and Sodomy: Arthurian Literature and the Medieval World.” Goshen College.

April 2011 “Law, Society, and Women in the Sagas.” Columbia University.

Conference Panels OrganizedSession Co-organizer: “Empires Lost: Writing the Past Around Conquered England.”

2014 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds. Sponsored by Friends ofthe Saints.

Session Co-organizer: “Anglo-Saxon Predecessors and Precedents: Early English Engagements with OldEnglish Culture and Literature.”

2014 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

Session Co-organizer: “Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England.” 2014 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.2014 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.

Session Co-organizer: “Old English Language, Law, and Literature.” 2014 Modern Language Association Convention.

Session Co-organizer: “Criminal Justice in the Literary Imagination.” 2014 Modern Language Association Convention.

Session Co-organizer: “Media, Justice and Revolution in the Contemporary Middle East.”

2014 Modern Language Association Convention.

Session organizer: “Literature and Law in the Middle Ages.”

2010 Second Biennial Conference on Literature and Law at John Jay College ofCriminal Justice, CUNY.

Session Co-organizer: “Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England.” 2007 – 2010 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.2009 – 2010 International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.

Select Conference PapersJuly 2014 “Alienating a Traitor: ‘Eadric Streona’ in Aelred of Rievaulx’s Genealogia Regum

Anglorum.” 21st International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds.

May 2014 “Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England and Its After-life.”Roundtable: Capital and Corporal Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England. 49

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International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University.

January 2014 “Doing God’s Work: Grammatical Interpretation and the Scribal Transmission ofCædmon’s Hymn.” Modern Language Association Convention.



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Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, Conversations in Literature and Law, John JayCollege of Criminal Justice, CUNY, 2008 – 2009

Professional Service and Experience

External Reader

Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies

CommitteesModern Language Association

President, Law as Literature Discussion Group, 2013 – 2015Executive Board, Law as Literature Discussion Group, 2009 – 2015

Friends of the Saints: The Hagiography WorkshopConvenor, 2014 – presentCo-Convenor, 2013 – 2014

John Jay CollegeCollege Council, 2009 – 2012Faculty Senate , 2009 – 2012Literature and Law Conference Coordination Committee, 2013 – present, 2011 – 2012, 2008 – 2010General Education Curriculum Committee, 2013 – presentStudent Grade Appeals Committee, Department of English, 2012 – presentEnglish Major Outcomes Assessment Committee, Department of English, 2010 – presentLinguistics Committee, Department of English, 2009 – presentCurriculum Committee, Department of English 2009 – 2012, Chair, 2010 – 2011Co-Social Secretary, Department of English, 2009 – 2012Professional Staff Congress, John Jay College Chapter Executive Committee, 2011 – present

Purdue UniversityMedieval and Renaissance Studies Majors Events Coordinator, 2007 – 2008

Certifications and Developmental WorkshopsJohn Jay College

CertificationWriting Intensive Certification, Spring 2010

OrganizerGraduate School? Realities and Advice (Department of English, for students), annualTeaching the Global Issues Course in Literature (Department of English), Spring 2013Teaching Grammar (Writing Intensive Certification Workshop), Spring 2010

ParticipantRhetoric: Why You Need It (Department of English), Spring 2014Reflecting on Reflective Writing (Department of English), Spring 2014English 201 Course Presentation (Department of English), Spring 2014Writing Faculty Salon (Department of English), Fall 2013



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Teaching Critical Reasoning (Center for the Advancement of Teaching), Spring 2013Culturally Responsive Teaching (Center for the Advancement of Teaching), Spring 2013An Overview of the New General Education (Center for the Advancement of Teaching), Spring 2013The English 201 Observation (Center for the Advancement of Teaching), Spring 2013Responding to Student Papers (Center for the Advancement of Teaching), Spring 2013Effective Feedback for Writing Assignments (Center for the Advancement of Teaching), Spring 2013Creating Writing Assignments from Learning Objectives (Center for the Advancement of Teaching),

Spring 2013Close Reading, Slow Looking: Text and Cognition, Spring 2010Writing Intensive Certification Workshops, 2008 – 2010

LanguagesFluent: English, French

Reading knowledge: Old English, Middle English, Old Norse-Icelandic, Old French, Latin, German

Professional Memberships

Canadian Society of MedievalistsFriends of the Saints: The Hagiography WorkshopHaskins SocietyInternational Society of Anglo-SaxonistsMedieval Academy of AmericaMedieval Club of New YorkModern Language AssociationSociety for the Advancement of Scandinavian StudiesSociety for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature