Fiona Somerset

Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Western Ontario, London Ontario Canada N6A 3K7     CV.
Links to my official department web page, info for grad students, course descriptions undergrad and grad.
Those aren't updated as often as I'd like, so here are newer general info for grads, course info for undergrads and grads.  Here are notes from my Paleography and Codicology lectures, and net resources for the Beginner's Latin Group.
Calls for papers for conferences & sessions I run: Medieval and Renaissance Seminar, Lollard Society.
Web info on books, conferences, and journals I've contributed to: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Medieval Academy, Kalamazoo,International Medieval Congress/Leeds, New Chaucer Society, Literary Research/Recherche Litteraire, Mediaeval Studies, Yearbook of Langland Studies, English Literary History
Read all about my book Clerical Discourse and Lay Audience in Late Medieval England.
Current projects:       -edition of Four Wycliffite Dialogues
                                -articles on 1) theories of the Eucharist and Chaucer's Summoner's Tale
                                2) controversies over translating professional knowledge in the early fifteenth century
                                3) the heretic Walter Brut's views on women
                                4) late medieval theories of excitative speech
                                5) Latinate cacophony and vernacular voice in Piers Plowman
                              6) Wat Tyler's role in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381
                                -research for a new book on heresy and the laity in England
Collaborations:
editor of a collection of papers from the conference Vernacularity: The Politics of Language and Style, with Nicholas Watson
editor of the collection Heresy and Reform: New Directions in Wycliffite Studies with Jill Havens and Derrick Pitard

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