Ashby Kinch

Associate Professor
Chair of M.A. & Undergraduate Literature

Office: LA 126
Phone: 243.4462
E-mail: ashby.kinch@mso.umt.edu

Profile:

Associate Professor; PhD, University of Michigan (2000). Medieval literature, macabre art forms, comparative lyric, medieval glossography. Articles published or forthcoming in the following peer-reviewed journals: Mediaevalia, Studies in Philology, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Neophilologus, Fifteenth-Century Studies, Bulletin du Cange and The Chaucer Review. He co-edited with Emma Cayley a collection of essays, Chartier in Europe, on Alain Chartier, forthcoming from Boydell & Brewer in 2008. The book explores the European reception of this French poet and political theorist whose work plays a crucial role in the transition between medieval and renaissance literary cultures. The book includes his essay, “’La crudele in amore’: Carlo del Nero Reads La Belle Dame Sans Mercy,” on the late 15th century Italian translation of Chartier’s famous poem. His current book-project, Myths of Persistence: The Aesthetics of Fear in Late Medieval Macabre Art, explores “macabre aesthetics” in late medieval culture, examining the ideological and cultural functions of late medieval macabre art forms and death motifs.

Bob Baker Jill Bergman Judy Blunt Rob Browning Heather Bruce Kevin Canty Casey Charles Beverly Chin Nancy Cook Debra M. Earling Louise Economides Phil Fandozzi John Glendening Brady Harrison John Hunt Lynn Itagaki Katie Kane Ashby Kinch Joanna Klink Chris Knight James McKusick Deirdre McNamer David Moore Bob Pack Greg Pape Eric Reimer Kathleen Ryan Prageeta Sharma Jocelyn Siler Robert Stubblefield Karen Volkman