Nicole Rice

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’sCanterbury 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, entitledMiddle 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 ofJournal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies(Fall 2013) on the topic of artisan culture, and a book provisionally entitledThe 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 includingJournal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies,Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Comparative Drama,andJournal of the History of Sexuality.