English

EDUCATION:
B.A. Yale 1962
Ph.D. 1968

INTERESTS: Medieval literature of Europe and especially England; modernism, especially James Joyce

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

--Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987). Pp. 239

-- Chaucer and the Subject of History (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press; London: Routledge, 1991). Pp. 489

-- Putting the Wife in Her Place , The Matthews Lectures (London: Birkbeck College, 1996)

-- Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in Chaucer's Poetry ( New York: Macmillan, 2006)

--ed., with Introduction, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: A Casebook ( New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Human Nature and the Natural World in the Middle Ages, Writing About Literature I, Major English Poets, European Literary Tradition, Chaucer and His Contemporaries, Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde and Other Poems, Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Word and Image in the Middle Ages

GRADUATE COURSES: Early Chaucer, Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales