Professor
Director of First Year Seminars
Ph.D.: University of Toronto, Centre for
Medieval Studies, 1987
M.A.: University of Toronto, 1979
B.A.: University of British Columbia, 1978
University of Guelph, Director of First Year Seminars, 2011-
University of Guelph, Department of History, 2001-
University of Toronto, Centre for Medieval Studies, Graduate faculty, 2001-
University of Guelph, Dean, College of Arts, 2001-2006
University of Windsor, Department of History, 1988-2001
Medieval Europe
Masculinity and male sexuality
Theological and cultural ideas about gender and sexuality, marriage and family
Post-Secondary Pedagogical Innovation and Research
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Areas of Research for Graduate Supervision
Medieval social and ecclesiastical history
History of sexuality
Women in the Middle Ages
with Ruth Mazo Karras. “The Sexual Body.” In A Cultural History of the Human Body, Vol. 2., edited by Monica Green. London: Berg, 2010, 63-80.
with Alastair Summerlee. "The Impact of Enquiry-Based Learning on Academic Performance and Student Engagement." Canadian Journal of Higher Education 40, no. 2 (Fall 2010): 78-94.
"Flexible Friendships: Martha Vicinus Explores Women's Intimacy." Journal of Women's History 20, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 146-50.
"Remember When We Couldn't See the Women?" Medieval Feminist Forum 44, article 7 (2008): 81-85.
available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/vol44/iss1/7
“One Flesh, Two Sexes, Three Genders?” In Professing Gender in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives, edited by Lisa Bitel and Felice Liftchitz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), 52-75.
“Sexual Mutilation and Castration Anxiety: A Medieval Perspective.” In The Boswell Thesis. Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, edited by Mathew Kuefler. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, 254-72.
“Historicizing Sex, Sexualizing History.” In Writing Medieval History, edited by Nancy Partner. London: Hodder, 2005), 133-52.
"Masculinizing Religious Life: Sexual Prowess, the Battle for Chastity and Monastic Identity." In Holiness and Masculinity, edited by K.J. Lewis and P. Callum. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004), 24-42.
"'The Law of Sin that is in My Members': The Problem of Male Embodiment." In Gender and Holiness. Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe, edited by Samatha J.E. Riches and Sarah Salih. London: Routledge, 2002), 9-22.
editor, Love, Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages. A Reader. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2001), xiv, 524.
"Blessing Unions Through the Ages," National Post (December 7, 2000), A18.
editor, Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West (New York: Garland, 1999).
"Mystical Castration: Some Reflections on Peter Abelard, Hugh of Lincoln and Sexual Control." In Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West, edited by Jacqueline Murray. New York: Garland Press, 1999), 73-91.
"Individualism and Consensual Marriage: Some Evidence from Medieval England." In Women, Marriage, and the Family in Medieval Christendom, Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan, edited by Joel T Rosenthal and Constance M Rousseau (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1998), 121-51.
"Gendered Souls in Sexed Bodies: The Male Construction of Sexuality in Some Medieval Confessors' Manuals." In Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages, edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis. York, England: Boydell & Brewer, 1998), 79-93.
"Men's Bodies, Men's Minds: Seminal Emissions and Sexual Anxiety in the Middle Ages." Annual Review of Sex Research 8 (1997): 1-26.
co-editor with Konrad Eisenbichler. Desire and Discipline. Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West, edited by Jacqueline Murr. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996).
