Mary Baine Campbell

Title

Professor of English and American Literature

English and American Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Expertise

Medieval and early modern literature and culture. Poetry. Travel writing. History of science.

Profile

Professor Campbell's research interests at present include 1) the early-modern history of dreams and dream theory in light of developments in both representation (including poetry) and natural philosophy or science; 2) utopia, past and present.

Degrees

Boston University, Ph.D.

Boston University, M.A.

Bennington College, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	campbell@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2146
Office:	Rabb, 263

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Awards and Honors

Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Fellowship (2003)

Guggenheim Fellowship (2003)

Research Fellowship at the Maz Planck Institute for the History of Science (Perlin) (2003)

James Russell Lowell Prize by the Modern Languages Association for an Outstanding Book of Literary Criticism (2000 - 2001)

Poetry Writing Grant from the Peter Reed Foundation (2000 - 2001)

Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship from the Humanities Research Center at Texas A University (2000 - 2001)

National Humanities Center (1997 - 1998)

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1995)

Michael L. Walzer 56 Award for Teaching Excellence (1993)

Kermit H. Perlmutter Award for Teaching Excellence (1992)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1990)

Runner up, Norma Faber First Book Award, Poetry Society of America (1990)

Barnard New Women Poets Prize (1988)

Mellon Fellowship (1985 - 1987)

Courses Taught

ENG	10a	Canonical Precursors: Genesis, Homer, Sappho, Ovid, Virgil
ENG	11a	Introduction to Literary Method
ENG	19a	Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG	123a	Dream Visions: Genre, History, and the Mysterious
ENG	128a	Alternative Worlds: Modern Utopian Texts
ENG	132b	Chaucer I
ENG	152b	Arthurian Literature
ENG	157b	American Women Poets
ENG	208b	Dreaming and Meaning, 1200-1750
ENG	213b	Alternative Worlds: Utopia, Science, and Gender

Scholarship

Campbell, Mary Baine. ""Immaterial Objects: Things in Dreams"." Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, special issue on "Thing Theory" 21 (Fall 2009). 3 (2009). (forthcoming)

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Artificial Men": Alchemy, Transubstantiation and the Homunculus, in special issue "Experience and Experiments"." Republic of Letters (Stanford University, online) 1. 1 (2009). (forthcoming)

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Spiritual Quest and Social Space." Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature. 2009 ed. Ed. Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker. Oxford, London, New York, et al.: Oxford University Press, 2009 (forthcoming)

Campbell, Mary Baine. "n/a." Rev. of Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature, by Jennifer Munroe. Configurations

Campbell, Mary Baine. "n/a." Rev. of The Representation of the Overseas World in the de Bry Collection of Voyages, 1590-1634, by Michiel van Groesen. Renaissance Quarterly

Campbell, Mary Baine. "review." Rev. of The German Discovery of the World: Renaissance Encounters with the Marvelous, by Christine Jones. Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory forthcoming (forthcoming)

Campbell, Mary Baine (trans. with Daniel Bequemot). "L'histoire du 'rêve'." Bulletin de la Societe francaise pour l'histoire des sciences humaines 32. (2008). (forthcoming)

"For Gaza: A Night of Readings and Conversation". By myself, and Palestinian and Israeli poets Darwish and Amichai. performer/author Campbell, Mary Baine. Longfellow House (Cambridge), ad hoc, organized by Fred Marchant and Askold Melnyczuk, January 30, 2009.

poetry reading from my recent work. By n/a. author/performer Campbell, Mary Baine. Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge MA, n/a, October 14, 2008.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Afterword "One Reader Reading"." The Book of Travels: Genre, Itinerary, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage from 1250-1700. 2009 ed. vol. n/a Ed. Palmira Brunett. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009

Campbell, Mary Baine. Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English. 2009. Seren Press, Bridgend [Wales]. (two poems, anthologized).

Campbell, Mary Baine. ""Dreaming, Motion, Meaning: Oneiric Transport in Seventeenth Century Europe"." Reading the Early Modern Dream: The Terrors of the Night. first ed. Ed. Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O¿Callaghan and Susan Wiseman. London: Routledge, 2008. 15-30 and 144-148 (Notes).

Campbell, Mary Baine. "'Asia, Africa, Abyssinia: Writing and Finding the Land of Prester John'." Travel Writing, Form and Empire: The Poetics and Politics of Mobility. 2008 ed. vol. n/a Ed. Paul Smethurst and Julkia Kuehn. London: Routledge, 2008

Campbell, Mary Baine. "¿The Sorceror and the Priest: Wandering Souls in Canadian Forests, 1634¿." Points of Arrival: Travel in Time, Space and the Self/Zielpunkte: Unteregs in Zeit, Raum und Selbst. Ed. Marion Gymnich, Ansgur Nuenning, Vera Nuenning and Elisabeth Waghall Nivre. Tuebingen, Germany: Francke Verlag, 2008. 49-60.

Campbell, Mary Baine (with Lorraine Daston, Arnold I. Davison, John Forrester and Simon Goldhill). "Enlightenment Now : Concluding Reflections on Knowledge and Belief." Common Knowledge 13. 2-3 (2007): 429-450.

Campbell, Mary Baine. ""Les Élections Américaines de 2006: Des enjeux nationaux eux aussi fondamentaux, une victoire démocrate¿et peut-être progressiste. "." Utopie Critique : Revue internationale pour l'autogestion vol. 40. n/a Trans. Laurent Loty. (2007): 99-103.

Campbell, Mary Baine. ""Travel and Its Theory"." The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, ed. Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs. (2002): 261-278. Transatlantic Literary Studies: A Reader [not a journal]. first ed. vol. n/a Ed. Susan Manning and Andrew Taylor. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Article: Meditations on 'Meditation for a Savage Child', pp. 50-59 in Adrienne Rich: A Symposium." Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 77. Fall (2007): 50-59.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "The Dreaming Body: Cartesian Psychology, Enlightenment Anthropology, and the Jesuits in Québec." The Anthropology of the Enlightenment. vol. n/a Ed. Larry Wolff. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Waste/Not: The Art of Gathering What Remains (keynote address)." Utopian Spaces/Utopian Places. Brandeis University, Waltham MA. March 9, 2007.

Campbell, Mary Baine (with Marilyn Hacker and Scott Verner). "Questions still unanswered on The Path to 9/11." The Guardian September 16, 2006: Letters n/a.

Campbell, Mary Baine, trans. Catherine Pierre. "III. Tourment." Poezibao n/a: In "anthologie permanente" of this website. 22 February 2006 (2006): n/a <http://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2006/02/anthologie_perm_21.html>.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Busy Bees: Utopia, Dystopia and the Very Small." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36. 3 (2006): 539-560.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Hédelin d'Aubignac, Des Satyres brutes, monstres et démons (1627)." Rev. of Des Satyres brutes, monstres et démons (1627), by Hédelin d'Aubignac, ed. Gilles Banderier. Renaissance Quarterly vol. 59:1 Spring, 2006: 2 pp..

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Literature." The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 3: Early Modern Science. first ed. Ed. Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park (general eds. David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers). Cambridge [UK] and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 756-772.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Utopia Now." Spaces of Utopia 1. 2 (2006): <http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/74_10.pdf>.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "What Are Dreams? Body, Abstraction and Utopia in Early Modern Europe (long version)." Revisioning the Future: Perspectives on Gender Studies. Braunschweig Technical University, Braunschweig, Germany. May 4-6, 2006.

Campbell, Mary Baine. "Forward (expanded and revised from "Wrath, Order, Paradise," in Hawkins and Jacoff, eds., The Poet's Dante, 2001)." Paradiso (of Dante Alighieri). first ed. vol. n/a Ed. Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders (illustrator and translator). San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005. xv-xxiv.

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