John T. Sebastian, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature
Deputy Director, University Honors Program
Chair, Medieval Studies Program
Contact information
Office: |
324 Bobet Hall |
Telephone: |
504.865.2277 |
E-mail: |
jtsebast@loyno.edu |
Address: |
Department of English
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Office hours (Fall '08): |
To be announced
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Biography
John T. Sebastian hails from Nutley, New Jersey. He earned his A.B. (English and medieval studies) and M.A. (medieval and Renaissance British literature) from Georgetown University and his M.A. and Ph.D. (medieval studies) from Cornell University. He lives in Jefferson, Louisiana.
Curriculum vitae
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Research interests
- 14th- and 15th-century English religious literature (especially drama, the poetry of John Lydgate, and the literature of East Anglia)
- Old English and Old Norse literature
- Franciscan and Carthusian spirituality
- medieval mysticism
- medieval music and/in literature
- performance and performativity
- gender studies
Current projects (in order of near-completeness)
- Edition of the Croxton Play of the Sacrament for the TEAMS Consortium Middle English Text Series ( Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications): a fifteenth-century dramatization of a Host-desecration miracle
- “Behind the Music: Processional Dramaturgy and the YorkAssumption of the Virgin”: a study of gymels (two-part songs) in a biblical pageant
- Lewd Imaginings: The Fashioning of Lay Identity in Late Medieval England (tentative title): an examination of the imaginary but fundamental division of society into “learned” and “lewd” (Middle English lewed carries the modern senses of “unlearned” and “lay,” although the difference is rarely clear in medieval usage) and the association of “lewdness” with the imaginative (rather) than the rational faculties of the mind against the backdrop of the Lollard heresy
- An Anthology of Medieval English Mysticism: under contract with Johns Hopkins University Press
Teaching
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Current course offerings (Fall 2007):
| ENGL A340 | Chaucer: Canterbury Tales |
| ENGL H295 | Dante's "Beautiful Lies": Allegory and Interpretation (Honors) |
Other courses taught at Loyola:
| ENGL A316 | Medieval Survey |
| ENGL A341 | Chaucer: Troilus and Other Poems |
| ENGL A388 | Grammar & Language |
| ENGL T125 | The Emerging Self |
| ENGL U187 | Martyrs, Minstrels, Mystics |
| ENGL U188 | The World of the Vikings |
| ENGL U195 | The Legend of Robin Hood |
| ENGL U197 | Heroes and Monsters |
| ENGL U199 | Arthurian Legend |
Courses taught at Georgetown University:
| HUMW 011 | Critical Reading & Writing: Spy Stories |
| ENGL 040 | Gateway: Medieval Literature & Culture |
| MVST 222 | The World of the Vikings |
Courses taught at Cornell University:
| MEDST 101 | Aspects of Medieval Culture: Dramas of the Diabolical and the Divine |
| MEDST 102 | The Literature of Chivalry: Love, Sex, and Gender |
| MEDST 103 | Legend, Fantasy, Vision: Braveheart |