Faculty Directory
Caroline D. Eckhardt
Professor of English and Comaparative Literature
Contact:
311 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone:814-863-0589
e82@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Monday through Friday by appointment
Educational History:
B.A. Drew University; M.A. Indiana University
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1971
Research Interests:
medieval literature, especially Chaucer and late medieval chronicles.
Major Publications:
The Prophetia Merlini of Geoffrey of Monmouth: A Fifteenth-Century English Commentary
Essays in the Numerical Criticism of Medieval Literature ; and Chaucer's General Prologue: An Annotated Bibliography .
Books in Progress:
Critical edition and study of a previously unpublished fourteenth-century legendary history: Castleford's Chronicle, or, The Boke of Brut (Early English Text Society, Oxford University Press), volumes I and II published, volume III in progress.
Other Publications:
journal articles and chapters on the Arthurian legend, Chaucer, Provençal poetry, and medieval romance and chronicle
