Faculty Directory
Robert Edwards
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Contact:
136 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-863-3069
rre1@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesday 2:30-3:20 and Thursday 10-12
Educational History:
Ph.D., M.A., A.B. University of California, Riverside
Research Interests:
Chaucer and Middle English literature; drama and lyric poetry; literary criticism and theory; Medieval Romance and Latin literatures
Awards:
Life Member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
Major Publications:
Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity. Houndsmills, Hants.: Palgrave /Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's, 2002. Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2002.
The Siege of Thebes. Middle English Texts Series, TEAMS. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2001.
Troy Book: Selections. Middle English Texts Series, TEAMS. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998.
The Dream of Chaucer: Representation and Reflection in Chaucer's Early Narrative. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989.
Ratio and Invention: A Study of Medieval Lyric and Narrative. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1989.
The Poetry of Guido Guinizelli. Medieval Library Series. New York: Garland, 1987.
The Montecassino Passion and the Poetics of Medieval Drama. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977.
Other Publications:
Editor, Arts and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative: Essays in Honor of Robert Worth Frank, Jr. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1994.
Co-editor, Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1995.
Co-editor, The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.
Forthcoming Publication:
The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Chaucer. New York: Palgrave / Macmillan, 2006.
