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.