Jane Chance

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Jane Chance (born 1945), also known as Jane Chance Nitzsche, is an American scholar specializing in medieval English literature, gender studies, and

Professor Emerita
in English.

Education

Chance earned her BA from

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.[1]

Teaching

She taught at the University of Saskatchewan and then moved to Rice University in 1973 to teach Old English literature; she was the first woman appointed to a tenure-track position in the English department there.[2][3] She was appointed to the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in 2008 and became emerita upon her retirement in 2011.[1][2] She is founder president of the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages.[3]

At Rice, Chance established what became the Medieval Studies Program; she headed the first Women's Studies program within the English department, which was nationally noted.[3] In the late 1980s she was the first president of the Rice Commission on Women.[2][3][4] She unsuccessfully sued the university for gender discrimination in 1988.[5][6][7] In 1995 she established and funded the Julia Mile Chance Prize for Excellence in Teaching, named for her mother, to honor women faculty members.[3]

Comparative literature and medievalism

As Jane Chance Nitzsche, Chance published a revised version of her dissertation as The Genius Figure in Antiquity and the Middle Ages in 1975.

mythography. Volume 1, From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433–1177, was termed "monumental" and "highly detailed" by Sarah Stanbury in Arthuriana who nonetheless found the focus on gender poorly supported;[9] although the reviewer in Speculum called it "disappointing";[3][10] Volume 2, From the School of Chartres to the Court at Avignon, 1177–1350, was called "immensely learned and ambitious" in the same journal in 2002.[11] The final volume, The Emergence of Italian Humanism, 1321–1475, appeared in 2015, and was judged by one reviewer to be less comprehensive than claimed.[12] In 1995 she also published Mythographic Chaucer: the Fabulation of Sexual Politics.[2][13]

Other works in which Chance focuses on medieval women and gender studies include Woman as Hero in Old English Literature (1986),

JEGP, called "massive in size and major in significance".[19]

Tolkien scholarship

Further information:
Tolkien's Art: A 'Mythology for England'

Chance is a leading

Tolkien's Art: A 'Mythology for England' (1979; revised edition 2001),[21] The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power (1992; revised edition 2001), in which she uses the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault,[22][23] Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader (2004),[24] and Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature" (2016), a biography with literary analysis.[25]

Honors and distinctions

Chance was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1980[26] and has also received membership in the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.[13]

She won

SCMLA Best Book awards for both the Medieval Mythography series and The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women.[2]

In 2013 she was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from Purdue University[1][2][13] and honored in a symposium at the International Congress on Medieval Studies organized by the Medieval Foremothers' Society.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Jane Chance, 1973–2011". Rice University Department of English. Archived from the original on December 21, 2016. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Jane Chance". Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Rice University. Archived from the original on December 21, 2016. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
  3. ^
    doi:10.17077/1536-8742.1298
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  4. ^ Joel Sendek (April 10, 1987). "Female faculty assemble to investigate inequalities". The Rice Thresher. p. 6.
  5. ^ Lisa Gray (April 22, 1988). "Chance charges university with discrimination". The Rice Thresher. p. 1.
  6. ^ Lorraine Snyder (November 4, 1988). "Chance suit delayed, awaits new judge". The Rice Thresher. p. 1.
  7. ^ Kraettli Epperson (November 8, 1991). "Chance appeals discrimination decision". The Rice Thresher. p. 6.
  8. JSTOR 1769227
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  9. S2CID 161943734
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  10. JSTOR 2865880
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  11. JSTOR 3301233
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  12. ^ Carrie Beneš (August 2015). "Review: Chance, Jane. Medieval Mythography, Volume 3: The Emergence of Italian Humanism, 1321–1475". The Medieval Review.
  13. ^ a b c d "Jane Chance - Doctor of Letters". Purdue University. May 2013.
  14. JSTOR 2854337
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  15. ISBN 9781843831235
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  16. ISBN 9781442637221
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  17. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2265.2011.00682_29.x
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  18. JSTOR 27711611
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  19. S2CID 254485477
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  20. ^ Norbert Schürer (November 13, 2015). "Tolkien Criticism Today". Los Angeles Review of Books.
  21. JSTOR 3187842
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  22. JSTOR 3190291
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  23. S2CID 162473169
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  24. JSTOR 25474798
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  25. ^ "Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature"". Palgrave Macmillan.
  26. ^ "Jane Chance". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 16, 2016.

External links

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