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Jill C. Havens

Jill C. Havens, D.Phil.

Senior Instructor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Director of British, Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal ArtsEnglish
  • British Literature

Education

D.Phil., University of Oxford, England, 1996
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
BA, Mount Holyoke College, 1989

Courses Taught

British Writers
Mythology
Intro to Medieval Literature
Fable and Fantasy
Studies in Medieval Literature
Medieval Lit. in Translation
Early Modern Women Writers
King Arthur in Lit. and Legend
Chaucer
History of English Language
Intro to Fiction
Intro to Law and Literature
Literature and Civilizations I
British Literature to 1800

Areas of Focus

Old and Middle English Literature; medieval manuscripts and material culture; medieval religious and devotional literature; the Lollard heresy; medieval women's writing, reading, and manuscripts

  • "Lollards in Arms: Lollardy, Loyalty, and the Trauma of the Hundred Years War." Creativity, Contradictions and Commemoration in the Reign of Richard II: Essays in Honour of Nigel Saul. Jessica Lutkin and J.S. Hamilton, eds. (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2022).
  • “Lollard Book Production and Richard Rolle’s English Psalter and Canticles.” Writers, Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts. Sharon Rowley, ed. The New Middle Ages Series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
  • “A Gift, a Mirror, a Memorial: The Psalter-Hours of Mary de Bohun.” The Objects of Medieval Women: Essays in Honor of Carolyn P. Collette. Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury, eds. (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 2016).
  • Lollards and their Influence in Later Medieval England.  Jill C. Havens, Fiona Somerset, and Derrick Pitard, eds. (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2003. Reprinted in paperback 2009).
  • “Shading the Grey Area: Determining Heresy in Middle English Texts,” Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale. eds. Helen Barr and Anne Hutchison. Medieval Church Studies 4 (Leiden: Brepols, 2005).
  • “A Narrative of Faith: Middle English Devotional Anthologies and Religious Practice,” Journal of the Early Book Society 7 (Summer 2004): 67-84.
  • “As Englishe is comoun langage to oure puple: The Lollards and Their Imagined English Community,” Imagining a Medieval English Community. ed. Kathy Lavezzo (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2003).
  • “A Curious Erasure in Walsingham’s Short Chronicle and the Politics of Heresy,” Fourteenth Century England II. ed. C. Given-Wilson (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2002).
 

Security Pacific Fellowship, June 2015, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.

Last Updated: September 28, 2026