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, 2002, Columbia University
MPhil, 1997, University of Cambridge
BA, 1995, Yale University
Profile
Nicole R. 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 on medieval
literature cover topics such as the Middle English cycle drama,
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and sex and gender in
fabliau and romance. Dr. Rice’s scholarship explores connections
among late medieval religious culture, social life, and expressive
modes such as prose, poetry, and drama. Her first
book, Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English
Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2008), analyzes
the Middle English prose guides that developed to adapt
professional religious rules and routines for lay readers. An
edited collection of essays on Middle English spiritual texts,
entitled Middle English Religious Writing in Practice:
Texts, Readers, and Transformations, will appear in 2013.
Collaborative projects with Dr. Margaret A. Pappano of Queen’s
University include a co-edited special issue of Journal of
Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Fall 2013) on the
topic of artisan culture, and a book provisionally
entitled The Civic Cycles: Drama and Artisan Culture in
Premodern York and Chester. Rice and Pappano received a
2011-12 ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship for this book
project. Dr. Rice’s essays have appeared in journals
including Journal of Medieval and Early Modern
Studies, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Comparative
Drama, and Journal of the History of
Sexuality.