Elona K. Lucas, Ph.D.
Professor
English Department

Office:127 Bradley House
Phone: (603) 641-7041
E-mail: elucas@anselm.edu

Areas of Specialization

• Medieval Literature
• History of the English Language
• Jane Austen

Courses Taught

• Medieval Literature
• Arthurian Legends in Literature
• Chaucer
• Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature
• Linguistics
• History of the English Language
• Traditional Grammar and Writing
• Willa Cather
• Jane Austen
• African-American Literature
• Introduction to Literary Studies
• Senior Seminar
• Freshman English I and II
• Freshman Humanities I and II
• Methods of Teaching English
  

Publications

Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Ohio University, co-editor with Dr. James Coady, Fall, 1979.

"The Attitude toward Death in the Corpus Christi Cycle Plays," Proceedings: Third Medieval Forum, April, 1982.

"Psychological and Spiritual Growth in Hadewijch and Julian of Norwich," Studia Mystica, Fall, 1986.

"The Enigmatic, Threatening Margery Kempe," Downside Review, October, 1987.

"The Tree as Image of Knowledge and Love in Two Middle English Devotional Treatises," Studia Mystica, Winter, 1988.

"Poustinia and the 'Worldly' Spirituality of Margery Kempe," Studia Mystica, Fall, 1991.

Conference Presentations

Third Medieval Forum, April 16-17, 1982, Plymouth State College: delivered paper "The Attitude toward Death in the Corpus Christi Cycle Plays."

College Theology Society, May 31-June 3, 1984, Cardinal Stritch College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: delivered paper "The Female Mystic: The Journey of Hadewijch and Julian of Norwich."

College Theology Society, May 31-June 2, 1985, Salve Regina College, Newport, Rhode Island: delivered paper "The 'Worldly' Spirituality of Margery Kempe."

Seventh Medieval Forum, April 11-12, 1986, Plymouth State College: delivered paper "The Threatening, Enigmatic Margery Kempe."

Medieval Congress, May 8-10, 1987, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan: delivered paper "The Tree as Image of Love and Self-Knowledge in Middle English Devotional Treatises."

Saint Anselm College Centennial Symposium, April 20-23, 1989: moderated session "Medieval Themes."

College Theology Society, May 31-June 2, 1991, Loyola University of Chicago: delivered paper "Use of the Christ-Pilate Dialogue in Chingiz Aitmatov's 'The Place of the Skull.'"

New England Medieval Conference, October 11-13, 1991, University of Vermont: invited to deliver paper "The Beguines of Belgium: Religious Communal Life under Hadewijch of Antwerp."

Thirteenth Medieval Forum, April 24-25, 1992, Plymouth State College: delivered paper "Knowing God and Loving God: Thomas Aquinas and 'An Epistle on Prayer.'"

Sixteenth Medieval Forum, April 21-23, 1995, Plymouth State College: delivered paper "Playing the Numbers Game: Numerical Structure in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.'"

Conference on Core Texts in the Curriculum, April 22-25, 1996, Philadelphia, PA: delivered paper "The Distinctiveness of Literature."

Eighteenth Medieval Forum, April 18-19, 1997, Plymouth State College: delivered paper "Gawain Revisited: More Notes on Structural Unity."

Northeast Modern Language Association, April 17-18, 1998, Baltimore, Maryland: delivered paper "'Loving Longest When Hope Is Gone': Constancy in 'Persuasion.'"