Mary J. Carruthers (born January 15, 1941) is the

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Professor of Literature and Professor of English, emerita, at

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. She also teaches at

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. She is formerly a professor at

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and the

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. She has written widely on medieval literature and

rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate par ...

, memory and

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, and the history of spirituality. She holds a Ph.D. in English from

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(1965), and a B.A. in English from

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(1961). She was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. Carruthers was elected to the

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in 2022.

Publications

*''Rhetoric Beyond Words: Delight and Persuasion in the Arts of the Middle Ages.'' ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2010. *'Ars oblivionalis, ars inveniendi: The Cherub Figure and the Arts of Memory.' ''Gesta'' 48 (2009): 1–19. *'Varietas: a word of many colours.' ''Poetica: Zeitschrift für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft'' (Munich, Germany), Fall 2009: 33–54. *'Mechanisms for the transmission of culture: the role of 'place' in the arts of memory.' In ''Translatio, the Transmission of Culture in the Middle Ages''. ed Laura Hollengreen. Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols), 2008: 1–26. *'Sweetness.' ''Speculum'' 81 (2006): 999–1013. *'On affliction and reading, weeping and argument: Chaucer's lachrymose Troilus in context.' ''Representations'' 93 (2006): 1–21. *''The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures.'' ed. with J. M. Ziolkowski. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. *''The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric. and the Making of Images. 400–1200.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. *''The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture.'' New York: Cambridge University Press. 1990. (Second Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008.) *''Acts of Interpretation: The Text in Its Contexts. 700–1600.'' ed. with Elizabeth D. Kirk. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books. 1982. *''The Search for St. Truth: A Study of Meaning in Piers Plowman.'' Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. 1973. *'The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions'jstor.org
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Mary Carruthers curriculum vitae
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carruthers, Mary 1941 births Living people New York University faculty Literature educators American women academics New York University Abu Dhabi faculty Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Members of the American Philosophical Society