Department of English

Education: PhD, Cornell University; BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Teaching and Research Interests: Medieval literature; Chaucer; Dante; Old and Middle English literature; Arthurian literature; Mikhail Bakhtin; medieval literary theory; medieval apocalyptic literature; medieval Icelandic literature; medieval Latin; patristic literature

Selected Publications: A Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Pardoner's Tale (2000); Domesday Bokes: The Apocalypse in Medieval English Literary Culture (1991); The Trinity in Langland and Abelard (1989); The Antifraternal Tradition in Medieval Literature (1986); Metafiction: The Double Narration in Under Western Eyes (1981); The Living Stone and the Patriarchs: Typological Imagery in Andreas (1973); The Green Yeoman as Loathly Lady: The Friar's Parody of the Wife of Bath's Tale (1975)