DianeCady
Assistant Professor of
English
St. John’s College of Arts and Sciences
Staten Island Campus, Rosati Hall
(718) 390-4050
cadyd@stjohns.edu
Education
Ph.D. in English, Cornell University, August 2001 Major Subjects:
Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Minor Subjects: Gender Theory.
Literary Criticism
M.A. in English, Cornell University, 1998
M.A. in English, Portland State University, 1995, Phi Kappa
Beta
B.A. in English, Minor in Sociology, Portland State University,
1991, graduated with honors
Research Interests
Chaucer, medieval romance, medieval women’s writing, early
modern drama, gender and sexuality, Marxism, cultural studies
Publications
“Linguistic "Dis-ease: Foreign Language as Sexual Disease in Early
Modern England." Responding to Sexual Disease in Early Modern
Europe. Ed. Kevin Siena. Toronto: U of Toronto P,
forthcoming.
Book Manuscript in Progress
“Damaged Goods”: Gender and Commerce in the
Canterbury Tales. My project reads the Canterbury
Tales in light of the cultural intersections among money,
language and gender in the late Middle Ages. While recent
studies discuss the metaphorical relationship between money and
language, they leave unexamined gender’s pervasive presence in
discussions of monetary policy and linguistic practice. The
Canterbury Tales renders visible the triangulated
relationship among these seemingly disparate signifying systems and
exposes gender as a malleable intellectual structure that organizes
not only knowledge about the body, but also knowledge about other
social systems. I argue that the Canterbury Tales
meditates on the hegemonic logic of systems of representation and,
albeit in circumscribed ways, calls attention to their regulatory
agendas.
Grants and Awards
Summer Support Grant, St. John's University, 2004.
Founder's Week Award, St. John's University, Fall 2003
Merit Award, St. John’s University, 2002-2003
Martin Sampson Teaching Award, Cornell University, Fall 2000
Mellon Fellowship, Cornell University, 1999-2000
Anonymous Donor Fellowship, Cornell University, Spring 1998
Mellon Fellowship, Cornell University, Fall 1998
Anonymous Donor Fellowship, Cornell University, 1997-1998
Mellon Fellowship, Cornell University, 1995-1996
Ford Award (best graduate paper), honorable mention Portland State
University, 1994
Elsa Jorgenson Scholarship, Portland State University,
1993-1994
Conference Papers
Invited Presentation, Columbia University, April 11, 2004.
“'Staying on the Rect Path': Legislating Money, Language, and
Gender Difference in the Late Middle Ages.” New Medievalisms
Conference, London, Ontario, March 13, 2004.
“Satan’s Misstep: Gender and Class in Piers
Plowman and the York Mystery Cycle.” NACBS, Portland, Oregon,
October 25, 2003.
“’I have but killed a fly’: The Role of Young Lucius in
Julie Taymor’s Titus.” Tenth annual meeting of the
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Tampa, Florida,
November 2002.
“Linguistic Dis-ease: Foreign Language as Venereal Disease in
Early Modern England.” Renaissance Society of America, Scottsdale,
Arizona, April 11 2002.
“’What nedeth gretter dilatacioun’?: Amplification and the
Merchandizing of Poetry in the Man of Law’s Tale.”
36th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan University, May 2001.
“A Litter of Languages”: Gender, Language and National Identity
in Englishmen for my Money, or a Woman Will Have her
Will.” Archipelagic Identities: 1485-1707, Oxford
University, England, April 10, 1999.
“(En)gendering National Identity in Early Modern England.”
Renaissance Colloquium, Cornell University, March 16, 1999.
“’For she is tikel of here tale, talewys of tongue’”: Lady Mede
in the C-Text of Piers Plowman.” Medieval Studies
Students’ Colloquium, Cornell University, February 28, 1998.
“’Spedles speche’?: Linguistic Devaluation in Wynnere
and Wastoure and the Fourteenth-Century English
Economy.” 32nd Annual International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, May 11, 1997.
“Femme d’or: A rereading of Dorigen’s Lament.” New
Approaches to Medieval and Renaissance Texts, Washington State
University, April 23, 1994.
“On the Outside Looking in: The Problem of Ecriture
Feminine and Christine de Pisan’s Book of the City of
Ladies. Annual meeting of Medieval Association of the
Pacific, University of Washington, March 6, 1994.
Courses Taught at St. John's
Undergraduate Courses
Chaucer
Introduction to Medieval Literature
Medieval and Early Modern Drama
Shakespeare: The Elizabethan Plays
Shakespeare: The Jacobean Plays
Introduction to Literary Theory
Global Literature
Graduate Courses
What’s Love Got to Do With it?: Medieval Romance, Texts and
Contexts
Squeaking Boys and Roaring Girls: Staging Gender in Early
Modern Drama