Karma Lochrie (Email; phone 812-855-5430)
Professor
PhD: Princeton University, 1981
MA: Princeton University, 1979

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Gender and Queer Theory; Cultural Studies; medieval studies; Chaucer; female mysticism; bluegrass fiddling; kayaking.

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
Books:
Special edition of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies on Utopias, Medieval and Early Modern, co-edited with Patricia Ingham (2006).

Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn't, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005).

Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999). Choice selection for outstanding academic book for 1999.

Constructing Medieval Sexuality , co-edited with James Schultz and Peggy McCracken (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991).

Articles:
"Presidential Improprieties and Medieval Categories: The Absurdity of Heterosexuality," in Queering the Middle Ages, ed. Steven Kruger and Glenn Burger (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press).

"Presumptive Sodomy and its Exclusions," Textual Practice 13.2 (Summer 1999): 295-310.

"Mystical Acts, Queer Tendencies," in Constructing Medieval Sexuality, ed. Lochrie, McCracken and Schultz (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997): 180-200.

"Desiring Foucault," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27.1 (Winter 1997): 3-16.

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Murderous Plots and Medieval Secrets," in Premodern Sexualities, edited by Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero (Routledge, 1996): 137-52. Revised and reprinted version of an essay printed in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, special issue on Premodern Sexualities, ed. Fradenburg and Freccero 1.4 (1995): 405-17.

PARTIAL LIST OF AWARDS
Choice awarded Covert Operations "Outstanding Academic Book of 1999" distinction.
Residential Research Fellow, Center for Cultural Studies, UC Santa Cruz in 1997.
College of Arts and Humanities Fellowship, Spring, 2006.