Carissa M Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594021 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carissa M Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carissa M |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongolia, Ibn Battuta's thirty years of voyaging to Africa and East Asia, or the arrival of European colonialism in the Americas. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, …
Rape and Violence in Medieval Travel Narratives
This chapter surveys three broad categories of sexual violence—a term I use to designate rape, threatened assault, and kidnapping—portrayed in travel writing produced in Eurasia between the fifth and fifteenth centuries. These three categories of violence are differentiated by their perpetrators: foreign strangers; men upon whom women depend to facilitate their travel, particularly at sea; and trusted travel companions. The first scenario promulg…
Theorizing Gender, Patriarchy, and Liberation
The Shape of Sex
Pastourelle Fictionalities
This brief essay engages with recent work by Michelle Karnes and Julie Orlemanski on the topic of medieval fictionality. It traces how fictionality operates in medieval pastourelles, which frame themselves as true-to-life accounts of sexual violence, victimization, and survival but also contain numerous fictions that both uphold and challenge rape culture. It discusses scholarly perspectives on pastourelle fictionality, and it draws connections t…
Obscene Pedagogies
As anyone who has read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situations. Less canonical works can be even more brazen in describing illicit acts of sexual activity and sexual violence. Such scenes and language were not, however, included exclusively for titillation. In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris argues instead for obscenity’s usefulness in sexual education. She investiga…
Rape Narratives, Courtly Critique, and the Pedagogy of Sexual Negotiation in the Middle English Pastourelle
This essay focuses on Middle English pastourelles, a popular but understudied medieval lyric genre centrally concerned with women's experiences of the threat of sexual violence. This genre offers contemporary audiences a rich and valuable resource for understanding medieval ideas about rape and resistance. The pastourelles closely echo the language of courtly love lyrics and thus function as a critique of courtly ideology, for they expose its vio…
Pastourelle Fictionalities
This brief essay engages with recent work by Michelle Karnes and Julie Orlemanski on the topic of medieval fictionality. It traces how fictionality operates in medieval pastourelles, which frame themselves as true-to-life accounts of sexual violence, victimization, and survival but also contain numerous fictions that both uphold and challenge rape culture. It discusses scholarly perspectives on pastourelle fictionality, and it draws connections t…
Rape Narratives, Courtly Critique, and the Pedagogy of Sexual Negotiation in the Middle English Pastourelle
This essay focuses on Middle English pastourelles, a popular but understudied medieval lyric genre centrally concerned with women's experiences of the threat of sexual violence. This genre offers contemporary audiences a rich and valuable resource for understanding medieval ideas about rape and resistance. The pastourelles closely echo the language of courtly love lyrics and thus function as a critique of courtly ideology, for they expose its vio…
Rape Narratives, Courtly Critique, and the Pedagogy of Sexual Negotiation in the Middle English Pastourelle
This essay focuses on Middle English pastourelles, a popular but understudied medieval lyric genre centrally concerned with women's experiences of the threat of sexual violence. This genre offers contemporary audiences a rich and valuable resource for understanding medieval ideas about rape and resistance. The pastourelles closely echo the language of courtly love lyrics and thus function as a critique of courtly ideology, for they expose its vio…
Obscene Pedagogies
As anyone who has read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situations. Less canonical works can be even more brazen in describing illicit acts of sexual activity and sexual violence. Such scenes and language were not, however, included exclusively for titillation. In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris argues instead for obscenity’s usefulness in sexual education. She investiga…
Pastourelle Fictionalities
This brief essay engages with recent work by Michelle Karnes and Julie Orlemanski on the topic of medieval fictionality. It traces how fictionality operates in medieval pastourelles, which frame themselves as true-to-life accounts of sexual violence, victimization, and survival but also contain numerous fictions that both uphold and challenge rape culture. It discusses scholarly perspectives on pastourelle fictionality, and it draws connections t…
The Shape of Sex
Theorizing Gender, Patriarchy, and Liberation
The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongolia, Ibn Battuta's thirty years of voyaging to Africa and East Asia, or the arrival of European colonialism in the Americas. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, …
Rape and Violence in Medieval Travel Narratives
This chapter surveys three broad categories of sexual violence—a term I use to designate rape, threatened assault, and kidnapping—portrayed in travel writing produced in Eurasia between the fifth and fifteenth centuries. These three categories of violence are differentiated by their perpetrators: foreign strangers; men upon whom women depend to facilitate their travel, particularly at sea; and trusted travel companions. The first scenario promulg…
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Medieval Literature and History (2 works)