Kortney Stern

100-LEVEL COURSES:

English LA 101: Celebrity Culture in Modern America (Special Topics)

Spring 2022 [2 sections; 20 students each]

Franklin College

 

English W170: The Devil Made Me Do It (Special Topics)

Fall 2018 [20 students], Spring 2019 [2 sections; 21 and 9 students]

Indiana University

 

Core 100: Identity, Culture and Community

Fall 2024 [25 students]

Goshen College

 

Core 110: Academic Voice (3 credit section)

Fall 2023 [22 students], Spring 2024 [22 students]

Goshen College

 

Core 110: Academic Voice (4 credit section)

Fall 2024 [15 students]

Goshen College

 

English W131: Analytical Reading, Writing, and Inquiry

Fall 2017 [22 students], Spring 2018 [22 students], Spring 2020 [22 students]

Indiana University

 

Online English W131: Analytical Reading, Writing, and Inquiry

Fall 2020 [22 students], Fall 2022 [2 sections; 23 students each]

Indiana University, Online

 

200-LEVEL COURSES:

English 204/Communication 204: Expository Writing

Spring 2024 [23 students]

Goshen College

 

English W231: Professional Writing Skills

Fall 2019 [24 students], Spring 2023 [2 sections; 25 students each]

Indiana University

 

English 201/Global Studies 241: World Literature

Spring 2024 [21 students]

Goshen College

 

English 213: Shakespeare and Film

Fall 2023 [16 students]

Goshen College

 

English 212: Banned Books

Fall 2024 [34 students]

Goshen College

 

English L204: Introduction to Fiction

Fall 2022 [2 sections; 25 students each]

Indiana University

 

Online English L204: Introduction to Fiction

Fall 2022 [25 students]

Indiana University, Online

 

300-LEVEL COURSES:

English 307: Diverse Voices in American Literature 

Fall 2024 [6 students]

Goshen College

 

English 326: History of Literature in English I: to 1800

Fall 2023 [16 students]

Goshen College

 

English 327: History of Literature in English II: 1800 to Present

Spring 2024 [9 students]

Goshen College

 

SUMMER INTENSIVE COURSES:

Summer English Immersion Institute

Summer 2022 [10 students]

DePauw University

This academic and cultural program is geared toward incoming international students at DePauw University. During the 3-week intensive course, students work on college level reading, writing and speaking skills. In addition to developing academic skillsets, instructors introduce English Institute participants to the United States and local community through excursions and activities inside and outside the classroom.

 

Groups Program English W131: Analytical Reading, Writing, and Inquiry

Summer 2021 [8 students]

Indiana University

This course is designed to consolidate an entire 16-week semester of building reading, writing, and inquiry skills into one intensive 6-week summer experience for the Groups Scholars Program.

The Groups Scholars Program was created as a way to increase college attendance among first-generation, underrepresented students at Indiana University. The program provides academic, financial, and social support to help students attain a bachelor’s degree at Indiana University.

VOLUNTEER TEACHING

Volunteer Prison Instructor, Indiana Prison Writers Workshop (IPWW)

Spring 2023 [8 students]

Edinburgh Correctional Facility

This non-accredited workshop gives students a foundation in creative writing through the use of weekly writing prompts based on literature read and discussed in class. We discuss and analyze published works from various genres as well as the stories that are written by past workshop students. As part of students’ homework, working drafts of new stories are brought to class to share and submit for instructor feedback. Upon successful completion of the workshop, students have a portfolio of revised stories.

 

GUEST TEACHING

Lecture on Never Let Me Go for Dr. Elizabeth Maffetone’s Literature and the Moral

Imagination course, Xavier University, Spring 2022.

 

Lecture on “Seasons of Glass and Iron” and “When We Dead Awaken” for Dr. Elizabeth

Maffetone’s Introduction to Fiction course, Indiana University, Bloomington, Fall

2020 and Spring 2021.

REFEREED ARTICLES

“An Echoed Response between the Figures of Silence and Merlin and Their Sonic

Resistance in Le Roman de Silence.” Arthuriana. (Forthcoming, Spring 2025).

 

“Dying, Death and the Afterlife: Non-Gendered Teachings from Beyond the

Grave.” Essays in Medieval Studies 35 (2021): 59-78.

 

“Becoming Jane Somers: Constructing Authorship, Genre and Age in The Diary 

of a Good Neighbour.” Doris Lessing Studies 34 (2016): 27-31.

 

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE

“Humanities 101: Embodied Spaces.” Humanities in Class Digital Library,

National Humanities Center, 2022.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Anna Alberni, Antonio Calvia, and Maria Sofia Lannutti,

eds., Polyphonic Voices (SISMEL 2022). In Comitatus 55 (2024).

Certificate of Completion: Self-Guided Foundational Safe Zone Training, The Safe Zone

Project, December 2023

 

Inclusive Teaching: Supporting All Students in the College Classroom Certificate,

Columbia University Virtual EdX Program, June 2022

 

Graduate Area Certificate in Medieval Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington,

Indiana, May 2019

 

Certificate of Achievement: California State University (CSU) General Education

Breadth, Diablo Valley Community College, Pleasant Hill, California, May 2012

NATIONAL

“Meaningful Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Classroom.” National

Humanities Center, Graduate Student Residency Program, July 2022. Indiana University

English Department and College of Arts and Sciences Nominee and Fully Funded Attendee.

 

Donald R. Howard Travel Scholarship, The New Chaucer Society, July 2022.

 

Sherry L. Reames Graduate Student Travel Award for Hagiographical Studies,

Hagiography Society, January 2019.

 

Doris Lessing Graduate Student Award for her essay “The (De)fetishization of the

Aged Body: Clothing, Use Value, and Invisibility in Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good

Neighbour,” Doris Lessing Society, March 2016.

 

INSTITUTIONAL 

Mininger Grant, Goshen College, May 2024.

 

Carnegie Graduate Travel Award, Indiana University Bloomington, March 2022.

 

Ruth Normal Halls Graduate Fellowship, Indiana University Bloomington, Fall

2021.

 

Graduate Student Travel Award, Indiana University Bloomington, March 2021.

 

Louise McNutt Fellowship, Indiana University Bloomington, Spring 2021.

 

Carnegie Graduate Travel Award, Indiana University Bloomington, March 2020.

 

Graduate and Professional Student Government Travel Award, Indiana

University Bloomington, March 2020.

 

Carnegie Graduate Travel Award, Indiana University Bloomington, February 2019.

 

Graduate Student Travel Award, Indiana University Bloomington, January 2019.

 

Culbertson First-year Composition Teaching Award, Indiana University

Bloomington, April 2018.

 

Graduate Student Travel Award, Indiana University Bloomington, January 2018.

 

Ardella Mills Prize for Best Graduate Critical Essay, Mills College, April 2015.

INVITED LECTURES

Invited speaker for Faculty Scholars Series, “The Sound of Teaching, Teaching

Sound: Sonic Education in The Book of Margery Kempe,” Goshen College,

Goshen, Indiana, September 2023.

 

Invited presenter for Digital Writing Panel, “Successful Academic Writing

Practices,” for Sarah Pedzinski’s Introduction to Fiction course, Fall 2021.

 

Invited speaker for Wertheim Lecture Roundtable, “Unmaking Motherhood: Gil’s

Rewriting of The Second Shepherds’ Play,” Indiana University,

Bloomington, Indiana, December 2019.

 

WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

Presenter for First-year Orientation Reading Workshop, “Reading the College

Text,” Goshen College, Goshen Indiana, Fall 2023 and 2024.

 

Invited speaker for the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL)

“Unspoken Expectations and Student Success: Revealing the Hidden

Curriculum,” Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, February 2023.

 

Developer and presenter for “Avenues of Funding in Graduate School: Awards,

Grants and Fellowships that Bolster Graduate Students’ Pockets and CVs,” Indiana University,

Department of English, February 2022.

 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Aurality: Listening to Criseyde’s Politics of Silence in Chaucer’s Troilus and 

Criseyde,” 23rd Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Pasadena,

California, July 2024.

 

“A Response to Crisis: Sonic Rebuttals to Exclusionary Speech in The Book of 

Margery Kempe,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds,

Leeds, United Kingdom, July 2024.

 

“Commingled Sounds of Silence and Laughter: Le Roman de Silence‘s Raucous

Disruption,” 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western

Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2024.

 

“Between Silence and Laughter: Le Roman de Silence’s Melody of Sonic

Disruption,” 2023 MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, California,

January 2023.

 

“‘It is not yow to telle’: Reinterpreting the Sounds of Margery Kempe’s Tears,”

22nd Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Durham University, Durham, United

Kingdom, July 2022.

 

“Between the Borders of Silence and Silenced: Decoding Political Acts of Sonic

Reticence in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde,” International Medieval

Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, July 2022.

 

“Aurality: Listening to Criseyde’s Politics of Silence in Chaucer’s Troilus and 

Criseyde,” Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2022.

 

“The Privilege of History and Hero Making in Beowulf,” International Medieval

Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, July 2021.

 

“Prayers as Teachings: Female Lessons Beyond the Grave,” International

Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, July 2020.

 

“Listening for Women’s Voices in the Libro de Apolonio​,” Diálogos XVII

Graduate Student Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana,

February 2020.

 

“Signs of the Past: Gendered Bodies and Teachings in ‘A Disputacioun Betwyx þe

Body and Wormes’ and Pearl,” The 37th Annual Illinois Medieval

Association Conference, Saint Mary’s College, South Bend, Indiana,

February 2020.

 

“Death as Transformational Future in Julian of Norwich,” roundtable participant,

The 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan

University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2019.

 

“‘It is not yow to telle’: Reinterpreting the Sounds of Margery Kempe’s Tears,” The 54th

International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan

University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2019.

 

“A History of Their Own: Reconstructing Ottoman Imperial Harem Narratives,”

The 45th Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, The University of the South, Sewanee,

Tennessee, April 2019.

 

“Imagined Pasts: Reconstructing Ottoman Harem Narratives,” The 18th Vagantes

Conference on Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada,

March 2019.

 

“The Sound of Resistance: Interpreting Female Voicings of Trauma in Troilus 

and Criseyde,” The 30th Annual Medieval Studies Symposium, Indiana

University Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, April 2018.

 

“Between Women: Interpreting the Interplay of Sounds and Silences in Troilus 

and Criseyde,” The 35th Annual Illinois Medieval Association Conference,

Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February 2018.

 

“Conditions of the Female Gaze: Regulating Masculine and Feminine Desire in

Bisclavret,” The 50th Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, University of California,

Davis, California, March 2016.

 

SESSION ORAGNIZED AND CHAIRED

“Early Literary Works: Gendered Perspectives on Loss and Death,” Session Organizer and

Chair, 25th Annual Academic Symposium, Goshen College,

Goshen, Indiana, Spring 2024.

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE

• Faculty Representative and Preliminary Advisor at New Student Orientation, Goshen College, Summer 2024.
• Faculty Reviewer of Goshen College Academic Scholarships Essays, Spring 2024.

• Coordinated Community Response Team (CCRT): Sexual Assault Prevention, Education and Advocacy Group, Goshen College, 2023-2024, 2024-2025.
• Committee on DEI: Gender and Sexuality Working Group, Goshen College, 2023-2024, 2024-2025.
• Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) Sustainability Committee, Indiana University, 2021-2022.
• Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) Travel and Research Awards Committee, Indiana University, Spring 2021.
• Host for the Medieval Academy of America Conference, IU Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana University, Spring 2021.
• Graduate Academic Fairness Committee, Indiana University, 2019-2021.

DEPARTMENTAL 

• Graduate and Professional Student Government (GPSG) Representative, Indiana University, 2021-2022.
• Career and Funding Resource Coordinator, Indiana University, 2021-2022.
• Career and Funding Newsletter Writer and Editor, Indiana University, 2021-2022.
• Book Sale Associate, Indiana University, 2021-2022.
• Graduate Student Mentor, Indiana University, 2018-2019, 2021-2022.