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Professor
of
English
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Director, MARC
Ph.D. 1993 (English), M.A. 1989, B. A. summa cum laude 1987, Harvard.
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Areas of Research/Interest: Grammar and grammar school learning; early Middle English; Chaucer; Langland; problems of literary history; language and theories of language
Select Publications:
The Grounds of English Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Middle English Literature: A Cultural History. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008.
Fellowships/Honors: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; The Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize, Medieval Academy of America.
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