Associate Professor
English Department, St. John's Liberal Arts and Sciences
St. John Hall, Room B40
Queens campus
(718) 990-5615
ricen@stjohns.edu
Education
PhD, Columbia University
MPhil, University of Cambridge
B.A., Yale University
Profile
Nicole Rice joined the St. John’s University English Department
in September 2008 after teaching for several years at Yale
University. Her undergraduate and graduate courses in medieval
literature will cover topics such as drama, Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales, women’s writing, and urban culture. Dr.
Rice’s scholarship explores connections among medieval religious
culture, social life, and expressive modes such as prose, poetry,
and drama. She is the author of Lay Piety and Religious
Discipline in Middle English Literature (Cambridge University
Press, 2008), which studies the Middle English prose guides that
developed to adapt professional religious rules and routines for
lay readers. New projects underway include an edited
collection of essays on Middle English spiritual texts and a
co-written book on English artisan drama. Dr. Rice’s essays have
appeared in journals including The Journal of Medieval and
Early Modern Studies and Viator, and new articles are
forthcoming in The Journal of the History of Sexuality and
Comparative Drama.