Kara Stone, Ph.D.

Headshot Kara Stone
Assistant Teaching Professor, English
Gallagher Conference Center, 106
Penn State Scranton
120 Ridge View Drive
Dunmore, Pa 18512

Late medieval domesticity, femininity, conduct literature, and hagiography.

Stone, Kara M. "Secretly Sinful Mothers and Practices of Female Surveillance in Sir Gowther and Awntyrs off Arthur." SPELL: Swiss papers in English language and literature. (2019): 28. 

Ph.D., English, Fordham University, 2016

Papers and Presentations

  • Stone, K. M. (July 5, 2021). "'The clippes of the son', or, an Otherworldly Mother: The Climate of Late Medieval Female Conduct in Awntyrs off Arthur_ (Language: English)," International Medieval Congress, Joanne Edge, Department of History, University of Manchester, Zoom due to pandemic, peer-reviewed/refereed, published in proceedings, Accepted. International. 
  •  Stone, K. M. (October 11, 2019). "The Boundaries of Female Monstrosity," Penn State University English Department Conference, Department of English, University Park, PA, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. State.  
  • Stone, K. M. (Author and Presenter, Penn State). (September 13, 2018 - September 15, 2018). "“Secretly Sinful Mothers and the Practices of Female Surveillance in Sir Gowther and The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne”," Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Bern, Switzerland, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. International.  
  • Stone, K. M. (Author and Presenter). (May 1, 2018 - May 7, 2018). ""Becoming and 'Un-becoming" Man: Gowther as Dog in Sir Gowther"," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, Accepted. International.  
  • Stone, K. M. (July 2017). "The Mother as Other in The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne and the Trental of St. Gregory," International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. International. 
  • Stone, K. M. (May 2017). "A Motherworldly Memento Mori: Lessons from the Grave in The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, peer-reviewed/refereed, published in proceedings, Accepted. International. 

Panels

  • Stone, K. M. (May 15, 2021). "“The Monstrous Woman and the Norms of Civility”," 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies, BABEL Working Group and the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Zoom--Rescheduled from May 2020, peer-reviewed/refereed, Accepted. International.  
  • Stone, K. M. (May 7, 2020 - May 10, 2020). "“The Monstrous Woman and the Norms of Civility,”," 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies--Rescheduled to May 2021 due to pandemic, BABEL Working Group and the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, Kalamazoo, MI, peer-reviewed/refereed, published in proceedings, Accepted. International. 
     
ENGL 15
ENGL/ARTH 115N
ENGL 442
ENGL 402