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