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EDUCATION:
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, Queen’s University of Belfast, 1976
B.A., Class I Honours in English Language and Literature, Queen's University of Belfast, 1970

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INTERESTS: Chaucer and his intellectual milieu; late-medieval literature (chiefly Middle English, but also French and Italian); medieval literary theory; medieval study of the Bible and classical literature (including Boethius); scholasticism and its vernacular intersections.

Characteristically, my research methodology brings together reading strategies from literary criticism and the history of ideas, and an interest in medieval philosophy and theology has informed much of my work. My latest monograph, Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Valuing the Vernacular, was recently published by Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780511512490&ss=fro

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--- Fallible Authors: Chaucer’s Pardoner and Wife of Bath (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14385.html

-- (ed., with Jane Roberts), Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007).

-- Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages (London: Scolar Press, 1984). Second, revised edition published by Gower Books, Aldershot, and University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988, in hardback and paperback forms.
The University of Pennsylvania Press is in the process of re-issuing the second edition, with a new introductory essay.

-- (with A.B. Scott, ed.), Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism c.1100-c.1375: The Commentary Tradition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988). Revised, paperback edition published 1991, rpt. 2001.

-- Chaucer's Shorter Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995; rpt. 2000).

-- Magister Amoris: The ‘Roman de la Rose’ and Vernacular Hermeneutics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

-- (ed., with Ian Johnson) The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 2: The Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Paperback version published in 2009.

--‘Respondet Walterus Bryth ...Walter Brut in Debate on Women Priests’, in Helen Barr and Ann M. Hutchinson (eds.), Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), pp. 229-49.

-- ‘Acculturizing Aristotle: Matthew of Linköping’s translatio of Poetic Representation’, Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie, 124 (2005), 238-59.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSE: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
GRADUATE COURSE: Chaucer