Medieval Literature
Medieval literature is a highly productive area of research and teaching in the department, balancing a number of approaches. Faculty and students work on canonical and non-canonical texts and in related fields such as paleography, history of the book, textual editing, and translation. At the same time, their interests regularly take them into literary theory, cultural and social history, intertextuality, and questions of gender and representation.
For graduate students, the department and the college provide competitive funding sources for conference travel and dissertation research. There are opportunities to learn languages in intensive summer programs and to teach courses in medieval literature in English and Comparative Literature. Students in the department regularly work with faculty in sister departments such as Comparative Literature, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, German, History, and Classics. With strong faculty mentoring, they publish their work in top-tier academic journals and begin successful careers as scholars and teachers.
Recent Grad Courses
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People specializing in this area
Tenure-Line Faculty
Robert R. Edwards
with particular interests in Chaucer, continental and Latin literary relations, authorship in trilingual England
Scott Thompson Smith
with particular interests in Anglo-Saxon literature and History of the English Language