People, Papers and Presentations for Dec. 7

Jane Chance, professor of English and director of the Medieval Studies Program and Workshop, was tapped as a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Distinguished Lecturer on medieval women writers Marie de France and Christine de Pizan. Chance lectured on “Teaching the Masterpieces in Western Literature,” for the NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers in June. She serves as a member of the Modern Language Association Selection Committee for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize and the Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work, 2007 to 2009.

Chance’s new book, “The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women,” has just been published to great acclaim: http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403969108. It is her 22nd book.   

Chance will deliver the keynote lecture at University of Muenster, Germany, next April for the Postgraduate Workshop on  “Continuity and Confrontation: Antique Traditions in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period,” which is sponsored by the Graduiertenkolleg Gesellschaftliche Symbolik im Mittelalter.

Su Jin Yean won the Best Young Professionals’ Paper competition in the 2008 Society of Petroleum Engineers Scale Conference with her paper, “Arsenic Removal Using Iron Oxides: Applications of Magnetite Nanoparticles and Iron Salts.” Yean will complete her doctorate in January and has just started working for Chevron.

Entries for “People, Papers and Presentations” should be submitted to the Office of News and Media Relations by e-mail to ricenews@rice.edu or campus mail to MS 300.