Carol Braun Pasternack

Rita
Raley

Ph.D., U.C. Los Angeles, 1983

Carol Braun Pasternack

Associate Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170

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Carol Pasternack is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1983, and her central interests include Old and Middle English literature; history of the English language; oral and textual theory; and gender in the Middle Ages. She is the author of The Textuality of Old English Poetry (1995), as well as articles on oral and textual theory, and gender and sexuality. In addition, she has co-edited three collections of essays, Vox intexta: Orality and Texuality in the Middle Ages with A. N. Doane (1991), Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages with Sharon Farmer (2003), and Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England with Lisa M. C. Weston (2004). Professor Pasternack is currently at work on a book titled Sex, Text, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England. She is an active member of the UCSB Program in Medieval Studies.

Areas of Interest

Old and Middle English literature
History of the English Language
Oral and textual history
Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages

Books and Recent Articles

Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gilmore Calder, co-editor with Lisa M. C. Weston (MRTS, 2004)
"The Sexual Practices of Virginity and Chastity in Aldhelm’s De virginitate" in Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England (2004)
Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages, co-editor with Sharon Farmer (University of Minnesota Press, 2003)
"Negotiating Gender in Anglo-Saxon England" in Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages (2003)
"Stylistic Disjunctions in The Dream of the Rood," Anglo-Saxon England (1984); rpt. in Old English Literature, ed. R. M. Liuzza (Yale University Press, 2002)
"Post-Structuralist Theories: The Subject and the Text," in Reading Old English Texts (Cambridge UP, 1997)
The Textuality of Old English Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
"Anonymous Polyphony and The Wanderer's Textuality," Anglo-Saxon England 20 (1991)
Vox intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages, co-editor with A. N. Doane (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991)

Current Projects

A book entitled Sex, Text, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

Recent Course Offerings

From Scroll to Screen
The French Connection: Borders and Alliances, co-taught with Cynthia Brown
The Individual in the Middle Ages: Subjects of the Law
History of the English Language
The Literature of Chivalry: The Bonds of Blood
Introduction to Old English
Beowulf

Courses

Quarter	Course	Title
Spring 2010	ENGL 119X	Studies in Medieval Literature
Spring 2010	ENGL 230	Studies in Medieval Literature : The Individual in the Middle Ages
Fall 2009	ENGL 10	Introduction to Literary Study
Fall 2009	ENGL 10S	Seminar for Introduction to Literary Study
Winter 2009	ENGL 110B	Old English
Winter 2009	ENGL 205B	Old English
Fall 2008	ENGL 110A	Old English
Fall 2008	ENGL 147VP	Media History and Theory
Fall 2008	ENGL 205A	Old English
Spring 2008	ENGL 147SS	Media History and Theory : From Scroll to Screen
Spring 2008	ENGL 152A	Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Winter 2008	ENGL 119X	Studies in Medieval Literature : Channel Crossings: Medieval Borders and Alliances in Britain and France
Fall 2007	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : The Material Lyric
Spring 2007	ENGL 156	Literature of Chivalry
Winter 2007	ENGL 110C	Topics in Old English Literature
Winter 2007	ENGL 111	The History of the English Language
Winter 2007	ENGL 205C	Old English
Fall 2006	ENGL 110A	Old English
Fall 2006	ENGL 147VP	Media History and Theory
Fall 2006	ENGL 205A	Old English
Spring 2006	ENGL 147SS	Media History and Theory : From Scroll to Screen
Spring 2006	ENGL 156	Literature of Chivalry : Bonds of Blood
Winter 2006	ENGL 197	Upper-Division Seminar : The Material Lyric.
Winter 2005	ENGL 119	Studies in Medieval Literature : Channel Crossings: Borders and Alliances in Medieval Britain and France
Winter 2005	ENGL 205C	Old English : The Voice, the Page, and the Codex: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages.
Fall 2004	ENGL 10	Introduction to Literary Study
Fall 2004	ENGL 147VP	Media History and Theory : The Voice and the Page
Spring 2004	ENGL 110B	Old English : Beowulf
Spring 2004	ENGL 147SS	Media History and Theory : Scroll to Screen
Spring 2004	ENGL 205B	Old English : Beowulf
Winter 2004	ENGL 110A	Old English : Introduction to Old English
Winter 2004	ENGL 205A	Old English : Introduction to Old English
Winter 2003	ENGL 101	English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650
Winter 2003	ENGL 111	The History of the English Language
Fall 2002	INT 184FC	The French Connection : Borders and Alliances
Fall 2002	ENGL 230	Studies in Medieval Literature : The Individual in the Middle Ages
Spring 2002	ENGL 110A	Old English
Spring 2002	ENGL 165SS	Topics in Literature : From Scroll to Screen
Spring 2002	ENGL 205A	Old English : Kingdoms, Bodies, and Souls
Spring 2001	ENGL 156	Literature of Chivalry : Bonds of Blood
Winter 2001	ENGL 205C	Old English : The Imperial Text from Anglo-Saxon England to the World Wide Web
Fall 2000	ENGL 101	English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650
Fall 2000	ENGL 101S	Seminar for English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650

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