Rate My Professor Anita Obermeier

Obermeier has received extensive recognition for teaching excellence, including UNM Outstanding Teacher of the Year (2005), Alumni Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching and Service to Students (2010), Office of Graduate Studies Graduate Student Faculty Mentor Award (2012), and numerous student nominations and departmental honors. Her research interests include authorial self-representations and intertextuality, feminist, gender, disability, and queer studies, medieval medical writing, medievalism, mystics, saints, and women. Key publications comprise her monograph The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European Middle Ages (Rodopi, 1999); co-edited volume Romance and Rhetoric: In Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney (Brepols, 2010); and articles such as “The Censorship Trope in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale as Ovidian Metaphor in a Gowerian and Ricardian Context” in Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice (University of Toronto Press, 2012), “Merlin’s Conception by Devil in William Rowley’s Play The Birth of Merlin” in Arthuriana (2014), and “Maximum Humor: Sir Dinadan’s Post-Medieval Capers” in The Year’s Work in Medievalism 31 (2016). Her current project is Human, Divine, and Demonic Conception in Medieval Art, Culture, and Literature. She has taught over thirty undergraduate and graduate courses in medieval language and literature, British literature, and world literature topics. Research support includes an NEH Summer Stipend (2008) and various UNM grants.