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Ruen-chuan Ma

Faculty Member

Dr. Ruen-chuan Ma

Biography

Associate Professor of English and Literature

Research Interests

Late medieval English and French literature, medieval manuscript studies (esp. page design and codicology), relationship between text and image, medieval reception of classical texts

Courses Taught

ENGL 2010/201H - Academic Writing & Research
ENGL 2230 - Myths and Legends in Literature
ENGL 2610 - British Literature to 1800
ENGL 3090 - Academic Writing for English Majors
ENGL 3610 - Medieval Literature
ENGL 376G - World Literature (Ideas of the World in the Middle Ages)
ENGL 4620 - Chaucer
ENGL 463R - Topics in Shakespeare
ENGL 471R - Eminent Authors
HONR 2000 - Ancient Legacies

Director, International Hoccleve Society, July 2019 to present
Chair, MLA Middle English Forum Executive Committee, 2025-26

Faculty Advisor, Essais, 2018-19 and 2019-20
UVU's premier student publication for scholarly endeavors in critical literary analysis and literary theory

Co-Director, English Department London Study Abroad Program

Speaker, Roots of Knowledge Lecture Series, UVU Fulton Library, September 2018
"Reading Stained Glass and Parchment: Reimagining Time and Space in Medieval Literature and Beyond"

Education

PhD, Columbia University, 2017

Major: English and Comparative Literature

MA, University College London, 2008

Major: Medieval Studies

BA, University of Chicago, 2007

Major: English Language and Literature

Teaching

ENGL 2010

Intermediate Academic Writing CC, Spring 2024

ENGL 2010

Intermediate Academic Writing CC, Spring 2024

ENGL 374G

Literature of the Sacred GI, Spring 2024

ENGL 2230

Myths and Legends in Literature HH, Spring 2024

Presentations

Ma, Ruen-chuan , Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, "Books in 'Ferne Halwes’ and 'Sondry Londes’: Critical Provenances and the Evolving Object Legacies of Medieval Literary Manuscripts", New Chaucer Society, Pasadena, CA. (July 18, 2024)
Ma, Ruen-chuan , V International Congress of the John Gower Society, "Mixed Modes and Mixed Tongues_ Re-evaluating Gower’s Bilingualism, V International Congress of the John Gower Society, St. Andrews University, U.K., July 2023", John Gower Society, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK. (July 8, 2023)
Ma, Ruen-chuan , Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, "The Semantic Potential of Manuscript Decoration_ Communities of Reading in the House of Fame", New Chaucer Society, Durham, UK. (July, 2022)
Ma, Ruen-chuan , International Congress on Medieval Studies, "Multilingual and Multimodal Aesthetics of Reading in the Confessio Amantis", Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (virtual). (May, 2022)
Ma, Ruen-chuan , Marco Manuscripts Workshop, "Magnifying the Magnificat_ Text and Sound in Manuscripts of Lydgate’s Life of Our Lady", Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN. (February, 2022)
Ma, Ruen-chuan , Region and Enmity_ a RaceB4Race Symposium, "A Medieval Manuscript Travels to East Asia_ Coloniality, Provenance, and Shifting Prestige in National Taiwan University Otori 299", Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Rutgers University-Newark, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (virtual). (October, 2021)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Ma, Ruen-chuan , (2024) "Teaching Research Writing with the Regiment of Princes" . Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching .
Ma, Ruen-chuan , (2022) "Sarah Breckinridge Wright. Mobility and Identity in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales." (vol. 44). Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
Ma, Ruen-chuan , (2022) "Curatorial Hoccleve_ Spiritual and Codicological Illumination in the Regiment of Princes" . Boydell & Brewer.