Skip to main content Dr. Leah Schwebel
- Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts
Service Activities
Ongoing
- Coordinator / Organizer, Medievalist Jews and Allies.
2024 - Present.
- Participant, Texas State government office.
2023 - Present.
- University Mentor.
2022 - Present.
- Member, Scholarship Committee.
2020 - Present.
- Reviewer / Referee, Viator.
2019 - Present.
- Reviewer / Referee, The Chaucer Review.
August 2019 - Present.
- Member, TKL Committee.
January 1, 2016 - Present.
- Organizer, 2014-Present: Founder and Organizer, Annual Medieval Visiting Speaker Series at Texas State University.
2014 - Present.
- Member, Library Committee.
August 1, 2014 - Present.
- Member, Major-Minor Committee.
August 1, 2014 - Present.
2025
- Organizer, TKL sponsored Second Book Symposium.
March 21, 2023 - March 2025.
2024
- Co-Chair, Committee to get the English department on a 2/3 courseload.
2023 - 2024.
- Organizer, Visiting Speaker: Andrew Kraebel.
March 2024.
2023
- Reviewer / Referee, Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
2022 - 2023.
- Organizer, Visiting speaker: Miller Oberman.
October 9, 2023 - October 15, 2023.
2022
- Organizer, Visiting Speaker: Steven Rozenski.
April 15, 2022 - 2022.
- Organizer, Visiting Speaker: Miller Oberman.
October 2018 - 2022.
- Organizer, Visiting Speaker: Andrew Kraebel.
March 3, 2022.
2021
- Organizer, Visiting Speaker: Andrew Kraebel.
March 10, 2021.
- Reviewer / Referee, Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
December 5, 2019 - January 2021.
2020
- Organizer, Visiting Speaker: C. David Benson.
March 5, 2020 - March 8, 2020.
2019
- Reviewer / Referee, The sixteenth century journal.
December 20, 2019.
- Organizer, Visiting Speaker: Holly Crocker.
March 2019.
2018
- Organizer, Visiting Speaker: Robert Meyer-Lee.
March 28, 2018 - March 29, 2018.
- On the Advisory Board, Society of Medieval Feminist Scholarship.
January 1, 2015 - January 2018.
2017
- Organizer, Visiting Speaker: Catherine Sanok.
March 2, 2017.
- Adjudicator, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.
October 1, 2016 - February 1, 2017.
- Editor, The Chaucer Review, Special Issue:.
October 1, 2014 - January 1, 2017.
2016
- Judge, Best graduate paper award, Annual Meeting of the Texas Medieval Association.
2016.
- Reviewer / Referee, The Chaucer Review.
July 1, 2016 - September 30, 2016.
- Adjudicator, Texas Medieval Association (TEMA).
September 25, 2016.
- Co-organizer and Chair, “The Legend of Good Women: Chaucer’s Mistake?” New Chaucer Society.
July 2016.
- Chair, “Mediating Italian Literature," New Chaucer Society.
July 2016.
- Chair, New Chaucer Society.
July 17, 2016.
- Co-Chair, New Chaucer Society.
July 14, 2016.
- Adjudicator, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.
January 1, 2016 - April 1, 2016.
- Organizer, Visiting Speaker: Richard Firth Green.
March 27, 2016.
2015
- Judge, First Book Award, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.
2015.
- Spoke on “Women in Academia” panel, sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society.
2015.
- Co-Chair, TEMA panel: "The Future of Middle English Studies".
August 1, 2015 - October 1, 2015.
- Co-organizer, TEMA (Texas Medieval Association) annual meeting.
June 1, 2014 - October 1, 2015.
- Co-organizer (with Kara Gaston), “Chaucer and Italian Poetics,” NEMLA.
April 2015.
- Organizer, Visiting Speaker: Nancy Bradley Warren.
February 2015.
2014
- Graduate Representative, Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.
2011 - 2014.
- Participant and Presenter, Yale/ UConn Medieval Working Group.
2008 - 2014.
- Co-organizer, Translingual Authors: A Roundtable. Forty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies.
May 2014.
2013
- Co-organizer, Medieval Female Shape-Shifting and Alternatives to Agency. Modern Language Association.
January 2013.
