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Scott D. Westrem
Faculty Profile
Ph.D., Northwestern University.
Professor, Lehman College. Comparative Literature, English.
Selected Publications
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“Lessons from Legends on the Hereford Mappamundi,” in Proceedings of the Hereford Mappa Mundi Conference 1999, ed. P. D. A. Harvey (London and Toronto: The British Library, 2004).
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“Africa Unbounded: on an Unstudied European Mappamundi (ca. 1450) and in Related Cartography,” in Making Contact: Maps, Identity, and Travel, ed. Glenn Burger, Lesley B. Cormack, Jonathan Hart, and Natalia Pylypiuk (Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 2003), pp. 2-21.
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“Making a Mappamundi: The Hereford Map,” Terrae Incognitae 34 (2002): 19-33.
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“Departures and Returns in Medieval Travel Narratives,” in Prologues et Epilogues dans la littérature anglaise au Moyen Age, ed. Leo Carruthers and Adrian Papahagi, Publications de l'Association des Médiévists Anglicistes de l'Enseignment Supérieur 24 (Paris: AMAES, 2001), pp. 93-112.
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“Dutch ‘Discovery’ of the East during the Late Middle Ages,” in The Low Countries and the New World(s): Travel, Discovery, Early Relations, ed. Johanna C. Prins, Bettina Brandt, Timothy Stevens, Thomas F. Shannon, Publications of the American Association for Netherlandic Studies 13 (Lanham, Maryland: U P of America, 2001), pp. 215-26.
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Broader Horizons: A Study of Johannes Witte de Hese’s Itinerarius and Medieval Travel Narratives (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 2001 [appeared July 2002]).
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The Hereford Map. A Transcription and Translation of the Legends with Commentary, Terrarum Orbis/ History of the Representation of Space in Text and Image 1 (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2001).
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“Geography and Travel,” in A Companion to Chaucer, ed. Peter Brown (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000), pp. 195-217 [released in paperback 2002].
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Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia (associate editor, with Kristen Mossler Figg, John Block Friedman, and Gregory Guzman) (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 2000).
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Learning from Legends on the Bell Library Mappamundi, The James Ford Bell Lectures 37 (Minneapolis: Associates of the James Ford Bell Library of the University of Minnesota, 2000).
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The Works of John Chalkhill, ed. with Charles Ryskamp, including introductory essay, commentary, and appendices (New York: The Roxburghe Club; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
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“Against Gog and Magog,” in Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination and the European Middle Ages, ed. Sylvia Tomasch and Sealy Gilles (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1998), pp. 54-75.
Honors
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Annual Faculty Mentoring Award, Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools. 2000.
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Excellence in Teaching Award [Teacher of the Year] (Lehman College), 1998.
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James Merrill Scholar-in-Residence (Stonington, Connecticut), in conjunction with a CUNY Scholar Incentive Award, 1996-97.
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Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Summer Study Award (July-September 1996): Research on geographical treatises, travel reports, and maps in German libraries.
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