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Heather Blurton
Assistant Professor
English Department
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
Tel: (805) 893-4816
Fax: (805) 893-4622
Email: heatherblurton@english.ucsb.edu
Office: SH 2718
Availability:
Office Hours: W 5-6pm & by appointment
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| Heather Blurton’s research interests are in the High Middle Ages (rather loosely interpreted as 950 – 1250), particularly in literary responses to the Norman Conquest and in the intersections of romance, hagiography, and historiography. She is the author of several articles (including ones on Guibert of Nogent and Matthew Paris, in whom she has continuing research interests) and Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature (Palgrave MacMillan, 2007). She is currently working on an edited collection on The South English Legendary along with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, and a new book that attempts to account for the strange appearance of narratives of ritual crucifixion - accusations that Jews stole and murdered Christian children - in Anglo-Norman England by situating them in the epistemological shifts of the twelfth century. |
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Areas of Interest |
| UCSB Medieval Studies Website: http://medievalstudies.ucsb.edu/ |
Courses
| Quarter |
Course |
Title |
| Spring 2010 |
ENGL 101 |
English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650 |
| Spring 2010 |
ENGL 122CL |
Cultural Representations
: Cannibalism in/and American Literary Culture |
| Winter 2010 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Cannibalism in American Literary Culture |
| Fall 2009 |
ENGL 115 |
Medieval Literature |
| Fall 2009 |
ENGL 230 |
Studies in Medieval Literature
: Jews and Christians in the Medieval World |
| Spring 2009 |
ENGL 101 |
English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650 |
| Spring 2009 |
ENGL 115 |
Medieval Literature |
| Winter 2009 |
ENGL 197 |
Upper-Division Seminar
: Sex, Saints and Sinners: Hagiography and Romance in Medieval Culture |
| Fall 2008 |
ENGL 230 |
Studies in Medieval Literature
: The Monsters and the Critics |
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