Melinda Nielsen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Classical Literature

Education

The translation and reception of classical learning in medieval literature.

Editor and translator, Speculum humanae salvationis (Brill, forthcoming 2019)
Editor and translator. Prosper of Aquitaine’s Liber epigrammatum. Contracted with Library of Early Christianity, Catholic University of America Press.

“Scholastic Persuasion in Thomas Usk’s Testament of Love,” Viator: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 42.2 (August 2011): 183-203.
"Emending Oneself: Compilatio and Revisio in William Langland, Ranulph Higden, and Thomas Usk." In New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall's 80th Birthday, ed. John Thompson, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, and Sarah Baechle (University of Notre Dame Press, Spring 2014).
“The Christian Socrates: Autobiography and Conversion in the Consolation of Philosophy," LOGOS 17.3 (Summer 2014): 143-157.
“Education’s Discarded Image: C. S. Lewis and the Theological Tradition of the Liberal Arts,” Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology 42.3 (Summer 2015): 271-88. Co-authored with Philip G. Nielsen.
5. "‘Nothing Almost Sees Miracles / But Misery’: Epicurean Causality and the Ascetical Journey in King Lear,” LOGOS 19.4 (Fall 2016): 101-116.
“Translating Lady Philosophy: Chaucer and the Boethian Corpus of Cambridge University Library MS. Ii.3.21,” The Chaucer Review 51.2 (April 2016): 209-226.
“Being Boethius: Vitae, Politics, and Troth in Thomas Usk’s Testament of Love,” Studies in Philology 115.1 (Winter 2018): 25-47.
“Putting Boethius back into the Boece: the ethics of authorship in the Boke of Coumfort,” The Chaucer Review 54 (forthcoming 2019).

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