Theresa Tinkle

Theresa has written or edited five books:  

Imagining Jesus Christ in Medieval England, 1275-1475: Royal Traitor, Heroic Lamb, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Chaucer and the Challenges of Medievalism: Studies in Honor of H. A. Kelly. Ed. Donka Minkova and Theresa Tinkle. Peter Lang Verlag, 2003

The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture. Ed. George Bornstein and Theresa Tinkle. University of Michigan Press, 1998

Medieval Venuses and Cupids: Sexuality, Hermeneutics, and English Poetry. Stanford University Press, 1996

And a number of articles, including:

“Getting Past a Crisis Mentality: Notes Toward an Education in Neurodiversity,” Pedagogy 23.3 (2023): 423- 33.

Theresa Tinkle, Michelle Sprouse, Jason Godfrey, Anil Menon, Andrew Moos, and Laura Romaine, “(In)Equities in Directed Self-Placement,” Assessing Writing 54 (2022): np.

“Pedagogies of the Mad,” Pedagogy 22.2 (2022): 253-77.

“York’s Jesus: Crowned King and Traitor Attainted,” Speculum (2019)

 “Sir John Mandeville’s God(s),” ELH 82 (2015): 1-30

 “God’s Chosen Peoples: Christians and Jews in The Book of John Mandeville,” JEGP 113 (2014): 443-71

 Theresa Tinkle, Daphna Atias, Ruth McAdams, Cordelia Zukerman, “Teaching Close Reading Skills in a Large Lecture Course,” Pedagogy 13.3 (2013): 505-35

Selected Honors and Awards: Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize (2012) UM Faculty Recognition Award (2004) UM Office of the Provost Career Development Award (1999) Arthur F. Thurnau Professor (1998)  College of LS&A Excellence in Education Awards (1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999) Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize from the Medieval Academy of America (1989)