Tom Pettitt

Forskningsområde

Forskningsfelt:

Det meste af forskningen indgår i et overordnet projekt, der bidrager til inddragelsen af folklore og folkloristik i studiet af engelsk/europæisk litteratur- og kulturhistorie fra senmiddelalderen og renæssanceperioden. Forskningen fokuserer således på traditionsbårne kulturformer såsom folkeviser, eventyr. legender og dramatiske optrin og ceremonier, der studeres både som alternative litteratur- og dramaformer med en kendetegnende retorik/poetik/dramaturgi, og i deres relationer til periodens kultur i øvrigt. Parallelt hertil laves der forsøg med anvendelse af folkloristikkens indsigter (f.eks. om mundtlig overlevering) i studiet af litterære tekster (f.eks. Shakespeares skuespil).

Siden 2007 er forskningsfeltet udvidet til også at omfatte betragtninger over hvorvidt middelalderens og almuetraditionens mundtlighed m.m. er ved af genopstå i de digitale medier, ved afslutningen af den mellemliggende 'Gutenberg Parenthesis'..

CV

Uddannelse

B.A. (Engelsk Sprog og Litteratur), University of Wales, 1967

M.A. (Engelsk Litteratur) University of Wales, 1969

Ph.D. (University of Southern Denmark), 1995

Ansættelser

Engelsk lektor, Odense Universitet, 1969-75

lektor, Odense Universitet / Syddansk Universitet 1975-2013

adjungeret professor, Syddansk Universitet 2013-

Publikationer (siden 2000)

2000

48*. "Protesting Inversions: Charivary as Folk Pageantry and Folk-Law". Medieval English Theatre. 21 (2000, for 1999), 21-51.

49. [with Leif Søndergaard; translation (performance version) with introduction]. “The Unfaithful Wife (Den Utro Hustru)”. Medieval English Theatre, 21 (2000, for 1999), 111-134.

50*. “Local and ‘Customary’ Drama”. A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Ed. Michael Hattaway. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, pp. 464-76.

2001

51*. "The Living Text: The Play, the Players, and Folk Tradition". Porci ante Margaritam: Essays in Honour of Meg Twycross. Ed. Sarah Carpenter, Pamela King & Peter Meredith. Leeds Studies in English. NS. 32. Leeds: School of English, University of Leeds, 2001, pp. 413-29.
-- an earlier version appeared as: "The Living Text: Shakespeare, the Players, and Folk Tradition". Pre-Publications of the English Department of Odense University. Ed. Erik Hansen. 1995.

52*. Ed. [with Leif Søndergaard] “Traditions of the people: customs and folk drama”. The Medieval European Stage, 500 - 1550. Ed. William Tydeman. Theatre in Europe: a documentary history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 615-665.

53. “Introduction: ‘I See a Voice’”. Oral Perspectives on Early European Verbal Culture Ed. Jan Helldén, Minna Skafte Jensen, and Thomas Pettitt. Odense: Odense University Press, 2001, pp. 9-19.

54*. “Textual to Oral: The Impact of Transmission on Narrative Word-Art”. Oral History of the Middle Ages: The Spoken Word in Context. Medium Ævum Quotidianum Sonderband 12; CEU Medievalia Vol. 3. Ed. Gerhard Jaritz and Michael Richter. Krems and Budapest: Medium Ævum Quotidianum and Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, 2001, pp. 19-38.

2002

55*. "'This man is Pyramus': A Pre-History of the English Mummers' Plays". Medieval English Theatre. 22 (2002 for 2000), 70-99.

2003

56*. “The Morphology of the Parade”. European Medieval Drama. 6 (2003 for 2002), 1-30.

57*. “From Stage to Folk: the Passages from Addison’s Rosamond in the ’Truro’ Mummers’ Play”. Folklore. 114 (2003), 262-70.

58. “The Folk Interlude: Dramatic Aspects of Traditional Games, Gambols and Songs".
Folk Drama Studies Today: Papers given at the International Traditional Drama Conference 19-21 July 2002, University of Sheffield, England. Ed. E. Cass & P. Millington. Sheffield: Traditional Drama Research Group, 2003, pp. 67-88.

59*. “Moving Encounters: Choreographing Stage and Spectators in Urban Theatre and Pageantry”. Medium Ævum Quotidianum. 48 (2003), 63-93.

60*. ”‘I am here, Syre Cristesmasse’: Dramatic Aspects of Early Poetry and Song”. European Medieval Drama. 7 (2003), 1-28.

61*. ”Ballads and Bad Quartos: Oral Tradition and the English Literary Historian”. Oral Tradition. 18 (2003), 182-185.

2004

62*. “The Ambivalent Beast in the Liminal Landscape: Categorical Transgression in the Contemporary Legend”. ARV: Nordic Yearbook of Folklore. 60 (2004), 29-60.

2005

63*. ”’Skreaming like a pigge halfe stickt”: Vernacular Topoi in the Carnivalesque Martyrdom of Edward II”. Orbis Litterarum. 60 (2005), 79-108.

64. ”Preface: The Easterlings and their Festivals”. Anu Mänd, Urban Carnival: FestivalCulture in Late Medieval Hanseatic Cities of the Eastern Baltic. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005, pp. xxi-xxv.

65. ”Midsummer Metadrama: ’Pyramus and Thisbe’ and Early English Household Theatre”. Angles. 5 (2005), pp. 31-43.

66*. ”Nuptial Pageantry in Medieval Culture and Folk Custom: in Quest of the English charivari”. Medium Ævum Quotidianum. 52 (2005), 89-115.

67*. "The Flyting of Yule and Lent: A Medieval Swedish Shrovetide Interlude". [with Leif Søndergaard] The Dramatic Tradition of the Middle Ages. AMS Studies in the Middle Ages, No. 26. Ed. Clifford Davidson. New York: AMS Press, 2005, pp. 297-307.
-- reprinted from: Early Drama, Art and Music Review. 16.1 (Autumn 1993), 1-11.

68*. ”When the Golden Bough Breaks: Folk Drama and the Theatre Historian”. Nordic Journal of English Studies. 4.2 (2005), 1-40.

2006

69*. ”Marlowe's Texts and Oral Transmission: Towards the Zielform”. Comparative Drama. 39 (2006 for 2005), 213-242.

70.* ”Mummers’ Plays and Folk Drama”.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, vol. IV, pp. 45-48.

2007

71. ”’Perchance you wonder at this show’: Dramaturgical Machinery in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’”. The Narrator, the Expositor and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre. Ed. Philip Butterworth. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007, pp. 211-234.

2008

72.* “From Journalism to Gypsy Folk Song: The Road to Orality of an English Ballad”. Oral Tradition. 23.1 (2008): 87-117. http://journal.oraltradition.org.issues/23i/pettitt.

2009

73* “Books and Bodies, Bound and Unbound”. Orbis Litterarum. 64.2 (2009): 104-126.

74. “Darkness on the Edge of Town: Life at the Flurgrenze in Medieval and Traditional Narratives”. The Edges of the Medieval World. Ed. Gerhard Jaritz & Juhan Kreem. CEU Medievalia 11. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2009: 82-98.

75. “The Beast of Muhu: A Hybrid from the Periphery” (with Kadri Tüür). The Edges of the Medieval World. Ed. Gerhard Jaritz & Juhan Kreem. CEU Medievalia 11. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2009: 130-135.

76.* "Body and Environment in the Contemporary Legend: Articulation vs. Containment". Contemporary Legend. N.S. 8 (2009 for 2005): 47-66.

2010

77. “Local Drama and Custom” (Revision of Publication # 50). A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Ed. Michael Hattaway. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010: pp. 184-203.

78. “Folk Legends and Wonder Tales”. A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture. Ed. Michael Hattaway. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010: pp. 341-58.

79. *"Written Composition and (Mem)oral Decomposition: The Case of ‘The Suffolk Tragedy’". Proceedings of 2006 "Sound Effects" conference at University of St Andrews. Oral Tradition. 24/2 (2009): 429-454.

80. “Categorical Transgression in Marlovian Death and Damnation: ‘Curses! Broiled Again!’” Orbis Litterarum. 65.4 (2010): 292-317.

81. “Shakespeare’s Moonlight Sonnetto: Medium as Message in the Age of Typography”.
Aktuel forskning ved Institut for Litteratur, Kultur og Medier. 2010: Interstitiel: Litteratur, Kultur og Medier. 11pp.

82. “Journalism vs. Tradition in the Early English Ballads of the Murdered Sweetheart”.
Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500 – 1800. Ed. Patricia Fumerton, at al. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010: 75-90.


Aktiviteter (siden 2000)

2000

36. “In Quest of the English Carnival”.
Presentation to Colloquium, “Late Medieval Festival”, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Southern Denmark (Odense Campus), 11 April 2000.

37. “Customary Perspectives on the English Guild”.
Presented to session on “Guilds and their Festivities in Northern Europe”, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 11 July 2000.

38. Four lectures on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama (“The Shakespeare Moment”; “Shakespeare’s Last Plays: The Tempest and The Two Noble Kinsmen”; “Metadrama in Hamlet and The Antipodes”; “Hamlet and Elizabethan Tragedy”).
Contributions to course arranged by International Shakespeare Globe Centre, London, for Danish Association of Teachers of English, 3-9 September 2000.

2001

39. “Textual to Oral: The Impact of Transmission on Narrative Word-Art”
Presentation (26 Feb.) to International Workshop, “Oral History of the Middle Ages: The Spoken Word in Context”, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, 26-28 February, 2001.

40. “New Britain’s Dome and Englands New Globe: Shakespearean Circulations”
Paper presented to Fourth British Studies Conference, University of Southern Denmark (Odense Campus), 10 March 2001. Published under same title in Anglo-Files. No. 122 (December 2001), 35-47.

41. “The Morphology of the Parade”.
Paper presented (2 July) to 10th Colloquium of Société Internationale pour l’Étude du Theatre Mediéval, Groningen, Netherlands, 2-7 July, 2001.

2002

42. “The Folk Interlude: Dramatic Aspects of Traditional Games, Gambols and Songs".
International Traditional Drama Conference, National Centre for English Cultural Traditions, University of Sheffield, 19-21 July 2002.

43. “Recomposition and Decomposition in English Vernacular Tradition”
Symposium on “Transformations: Transitions in Media Cultures”, Institute for Literature, Culture and Media Studies, University of Southern Denmark, 26 September 2002.

2003

44. ”Vernacular Topoi in the Carnivalesque Martyrdom of Edward II”
Fifth International Conference of the Marlowe Society of America, Cambridge, 30 June – 4 July 2003 (2 July).

45. “Moving Encounters: Choreographing Stage and Spectators in Urban Theatre and Pageantry”
International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, 14-17 July 2003 (14 July).

2004

46. ”’Es war so, das ein Bruder den andern ... ermordert’: Hamlet and the Workings of Memory”.
Conference on ”Memory and Mediation: European Narratives of Identity”, organized by the European Thematic Network on Cultural Memory, Odense, 10-11 September 2004 (11 Sept.).

2005

47. "The English Murdered Sweetheart Ballads: Replication and Mutation"
48. "The Murdered Sweetheart: Child of Print and Panic?"
Papers presented to two sessions (plenary and seminar, respectively) of Conference, "The Work of Stories", Media in Transition 4, Communications Forum, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 6-8 May, 2005 (6 & 7 May). For the latter see: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit4/papers/Pettitt.pdf

49. ”Nuptial Pageantry in Medieval Culture and Folk Custom”
International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, 11-14 July, 2005 (14 July).

2006

50. “Folk Song and Femicide: Journalism vs. Tradition in the Early English Ballads of the Murdered Sweetheart”.
Paper presented at conference, “Straws in the Wind; Ballads and Broadsides, 1500 –1800”, Early Modern Center, University of California at Santa Barbara, 24-25 February, 2006 (25 Feb.).

51. "Bodies and Environments in the Contemporary Legend: Articulation vs. Enclosure".
Paper presented at conference of International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, Danish Folklore Archives, Royal Library, Copenhagen, 29 May – 1 June, 2006 (1 June).

52. ”’The Suffolk Tragedy’: Composition and Decomposition”.
Paper presented at conference on ”Sound Effects: The Oral/Aural Dimension of Literatures in English”, University of St Andrews, 5-8 July, 2006 (7 July).

53. “Darkness on the Edge of Town: Life at the Flurgrenze in Medieval and Traditional Narratives”.
Paper presented to first Koguva International Workshop, “Edges of the Medieval World”, organized by Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest, and Centre for Medieval Studies, Tallinn University, at Koguva, Estonia, 24-26 August, 2006 (25 August).

2007

54. “The Traditionary Ballad: Genre and (De-)Composition”
Guest lecture, Department of Folklore and Mythology, Harvard University, 26 April 2007.

55. “Before the Gutenberg Parenthesis: Elizabethan American Compatibilities”
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/papers/pettitt_plenary_gutenberg.pdf
Video recording of presentation posted by MIT at:
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/462/ (36.50 minutes into session)
56. “Opening the Gutenberg Parenthesis: Media in Transition in Shakespeare’s England”
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/papers/Pettitt.Gutenberg%20Parenthesis.Paper.pdf
Papers presented to two sessions (plenary and seminar, respectively) of Conference, "Creativity, Ownership and Collaboration in the Digital Age", Media in Transition 5, Communications Forum, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 27-29 April, 2007 (both 27 April).

57. “Media Studies and Mediaeval Studies: Bracketing the Gutenberg Parenthesis”.
Guest Lecture at Research Seminar in Media and Communications Studies, Institute for Culture and Communication, Södertörn University College, Stockholm, 25 September.

2008

58. “‘Curses, Broiled Again’: Categorical Transgression in Marlovian Death and Damnation”
Paper presented to the Fifth International Conference of the Marlowe Society of America, University of Kent, Canterbury, 30 June - 4 July 2008 (3 July).

59. “Media Studies and the Gutenberg Parenthesis”.
Presentation to workshop organized by the Swedish Association for Media Studies, Institute for Culture and Communication, Södertörn University College, Stockholm, 29 September.

60. “Ballads and Broadsides”
Guest lecture, English Department and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, 14 October.

61. “The Gutenberg Parenthesis (Renegotiating Mediaeval Studies and Media Studies)”
Guest lecture, Center for Early Modern Studies, English Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, 16 October.

62. “Ballads before Broadsides”
Guest lecture, Center for Early Modern Studies, English Department, University of California at Santa Barbara, 17 October.

63. “Closing the Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Renaissance of Pre-Modern Media and Mindwork”.
Guest Lecture, Department of Cognition Studies, Department of Media Studies, School of Information Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 21 October.
The handout has been posted by Berkeley at:
http://ls.berkeley.edu/ugis/cogsci/resources/Gutenberg%20California.H.pdf.
The powerpoint slides have been posted by Berkeley at:
http://ls.berkeley.edu/ugis/cogsci/resources/Gutenberg%20California.PP.pdf

2009

64. “Containment and Articulation: Media Technology, Cultural Production and the Perception of the Material World”.
Paper presented to session on “Gutenberg, Authority, and the Ordering of Experience” at Conference, “Stone and Papyrus: Storage and Transmission”, Media in Transition 6, organized by Communications Forum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, April 24-26, 2009 (April 25).
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit6/papers/Pettitt.pdf.

65. “Enveloping the Body, Enclosing the Landscape, Binding the Text in Shakespeare’s England”.
Paper presented to Conference, “Body Work” organized under auspices of European Research Network, “Cultural Memory in European Countries” (ACUME2), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, May 30 – 31, 2009 (May 30).

66. “Customary and Theatrical Perspectives on the English Guilds”
Paper presented to conference, “Guilds, Towns and Cultural Transmission of the North, 1300 – 1500”, organized by the Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies, hosted by the University of Southern Denmark’s Centre for Medieval Studies 9-10 November 2009 (9 November).

2010

67. “In Quest of the Traditional Ballad: Anglo-Scandinavian Perspectives”.
Guest lecture, Medieval and Renaissance Center, New York University, 29 March 2010.

68. “Folklore and Medieval Performance Culture: Confronting the Chapbook Barrier”
Guest lecture, Medieval and Renaissance Center, New York University, 30 March 2010.

69. “The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies”.
Lecture and Discussion in Comparative Media Studies Forum Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1 April 2010.

70. “Multiple Texts: Folkloristic Approaches to Early Modern Performance Culture”
-- Paper presented to seminar, “Approaches to the Text” arranged by the Early Modern Research Group, University of Agder (Kristianssand), Norway, 11 September 2010.