Books

• Feminea Medievalia I: Representations of the Feminine inthe Middle Ages, Texas Medieval Association (Cambridge, UK and Dallas: Academia Press, 1993).

• Medieval Mothering, co-edited with John Carmi Parsons (New York: Garland, 1996).

• Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc, co-edited with Charles T. Wood (New York: Garland, 1996).

• Becoming Male in the Middle Ages, co-edited with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (New York: Garland, 1997).

• Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman (New York: St. Martin’s, 2000). co-edited with Robert L. Kindrick and Michael N. Salda (Cambridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2000).

• On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries, co-edited with Fiona Tolhurst (Dallas: Scriptorium Press, 2001).

• Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady, co-edited with John Carmi Parsons (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

• Joan of Arc and Spirituality, co-edited with Ann Astell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

• Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk, ed. Bonnie Wheeler (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

• The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings, trans. and edited by Mary Martin McLaughlin with Bonnie Wheeler (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, Dec. 2009), 366 pp.

Selected Journal Articles

•  “Dante, Chaucer and the Ending of Troilus and Criseyde,” Philological Quarterly (Spring, 1982).

• “From Achilles to the Heel: Masculinity in Western Masterpieces” co-authored with William Beauchamp, in Women’s Studies Quarterly (January, 1989), repr. Men’s Studies Review (Fall, 1989).

• “The Masculinity of King Arthur: from Gildas to the Nuclear Age,” Arthurian Interpretations (Winter 1992).

• “The Prowess of Hands: Alchemical Psychology in Malory’s Tale of Sir Gareth,” in Culture and the King: The Social Implication of Arthurian Literature, ed. James Carley and Martin Shichtman (Binghamton: SUNY Press, 1993).

• “Romance and Parataxis and Malory: The Case of Sir Gawain’s Reputation,” in Arthurian Literature XII (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, Winter, 1993).

• “Trouthe without Consequences: Rhetoric and Gender in Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale,” in Feminea Medievalia I: Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, UK and Dallas: Academia Press, 1993), pp. 91–116.

• “A Brigittine Document from the Florentine Paradiso written at Vadstena, 1397, and its Content,” in Saint Bridget, in collaboration with J.B. Holloway and J. duQ. Adams (Florence: Florentine Brigittine Commission, 1994).

• “Grammar, Genre, and Gender in Chaucer and Murasaki Shikibu,” Poetica 44 (Dec 1995). “Origenary Fantasies: Abelard’s Castration and Confession,” in Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (New York: Garland, 1997).

• “The Discourse of Cupidity: Medieval Paradigms in Grau’s The Condor Passes,” Explorations: The Twentieth Century 8 (Layfayette: LSU Press, 1998).

• “Pilgrimage and the Desire for Meaning,” Maguire Center Papers, SMU, 1998.

• “Models of Pilgrimage: From Communitas to Confluence,” Journal of Ritual Studies 13.2 (1999).

• “The Project of Arthurian Studies: Quondam et Futurus,” in New Directions in Arthurian Studies, ed. Alan Lupack (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2002).

• Chaucer
• Middle English Literature
• The World of King Arthur
• Joan of Arc
• Medieval Pilgrimage
• Medieval Romance

Dr. Wheeler’s major interests are medieval romance (especially Arthurian), Chaucer, gender studies, and pedagogy. She is founding editor of Arthuriana, the quarterly journal of the International Arthurian Society/North American Branch. She served as editor of Arthuriana from 1994-2009, when the journal moved to Purdue University. Professor Wheeler has edited or co-edited co-edited the essay collections: Feminea Medievalia I: Representations of the Feminine in the Middle Ages, Texas Medieval Association (Cambridge, UK and Dallas: Academia Press, 1993); Medieval Mothering, co-edited with John Carmi Parsons (New York: Garland, 1996); Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc, co-edited with Charles T. Wood (New York: Garland, 1996); Becoming Male in the Middle Ages, co-edited with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (New York: Garland, 1997) ; Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth-Century Woman (New York: St. Martin’s, 2000); The Malory Debate: The Texts of Le Morte Darthur, co-edited with Robert L. Kindrick and Michael N. Salda (Cambridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2000); On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries, co-edited with Fiona Tolhurst (Dallas: Scriptorium Press, 2001) [Nominated for Mythopoeic Scholarship Award 2002]; Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady, co-edited with John Carmi Parsons (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Joan of Arc and Spirituality, co-edited with Ann Astell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field (Cambridge, UK: Brewer, 2004); Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk, ed. Bonnie Wheeler (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Her most recent work includes finishing the scholarly heritage of Mary Martin McLaughlin in a new translation of the Collected Correspondence of Abelard and Heloise, trans. Mary Martin McLaughlin with Bonnie Wheeler (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and a forthcoming biography of the Abbess Heloise.

Prof. Wheeler is in her fourth decade as Director of the Medieval Studies Program at Southern Methodist University. She has received more than 20 teaching awards, including the Perrine Prize of Phi Beta Kappa for excellence in scholarship and teaching. Wheeler has published more than 30 peer-reviewed scholarly articles in her field; delivered more than 100 scholarly lectures and presentations; and appeared in more than a dozen documentaries (and provided scores of consultancies on Medieval Studies) for the Arts & Entertainment Network, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, the British Broadcasting Company, and Warner Brothers. She has organized more than 24 scholarly conferences. She is creator and series editor of The New Middle Ages in which more than 170 peer-reviewed books have now appeared.

On the national and international fronts, Wheeler served on the Nominating Committee for the Phi Beta Kappa Society, was an internationally elected Councillor of the Medieval Academy of America, was Vice President and President of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and has served on the Board of Directors of the International Medieval Society (Paris).

Wheeler is the founder and first Chair of the Consortium for Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS), which is now a thriving independent organization helping medievalists in schools and colleges through its publication series and innovative conference presentations. She founded and is currently Director of the International Joan of Arc Society, as well as a Founding Chair of the Dallas chapter of Veteran Feminists of America.