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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. I have recently published a monograph Fallible Authors: Chaucer’s Pardoner and Wife of Bath, and am preparing a collection of my essays for Cambridge University Press.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--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.

--(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).

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

--‘Chaucer and the Queering Eunuch’, New Medieval Literatures, 6 (2003), 107-28.

--‘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.

--‘Dante in Inglissh: What Il Convivio really did for Chaucer’ [The 2005 Bateson Lecture], Essays in Criticism, 55.2 (2005), 97-116.

--‘Purchasing Pardon: Material and Spiritual Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage’, in Lawrence Besserman (ed.), Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 63-82.

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