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Portrays the symbolic and naturalistic use of the cat and applies these concepts to SumT and its critique of the mendicant orders.

Argues that Chaucer is indecisive in CT when it comes to his relation to nominalism and realism, maintaining a grey area between the two through love.

Reads PhyT as a conflict between Jewish literal hermeneutics and a more metaphorical Christian reading of faith.

Argues that the use of Dante's "Paradiso" 53 in the initial presentation of faith in PrT reflects Chaucer's sophisticated engagement with the ways humans try to articulate transcendent truth.

Examines the ways in which the Legend of Ariadne in LGW reflects Chaucer's concerns over the cyclical and repeating tragedies of history.

Looks at how both erasure and the anxiety that erasure produces in material culture are revealed in FrT and SumT.

Traces the use of the minuscule "a" in the Latin quotations of the Ellesmere manuscript to support the argument that these annotations derive from the ways Chaucer imagines the form of CT.

Analyzes the ways in which Chaucer uses the word "sight" in order to examine concepts of taste and tastelessness in RvT.

Examines the use of final -"e" in the fourth stanza of Book II of TC, and the ways in which early copyists paid attention to Chaucer's use of the letter.

Examines the role of the mill in northern Europe as a site of merry-making and festival that newly informs Chaucer's Miller and MilT.

Examines the word "cunning," omission of its sexual connotations in the MED, and the ways in which Chaucer puns on the word in previously unconsidered sexual contexts.

Focuses on the circle rhyme in the second book of HF, which reflects the theory of poetic form and voice as found in the vision itself.

Explores prosimetrum in the Arthurian "Tristan en prose" as a way to understand Palamon's actions after he overhears Arcite's "formally elegant rondeau" in KnT 1.1510ff.

Explores the urban management of sound as found in CkT as a reflection of Chaucer's attitudes toward popular noise in London.

Argues that the use of the story of Pyramus and Thisbe in LGW reveals a queer critique of the patristic tradition of hermeneutics.

Examines how Sted is a poem not only about political issues, but also about the relationship between the local and the universal.

Examines the textual witnesses for issues of authorship and attribution, as well as the various forms in which Sted survives.

Considers KnT alongside didactic texts of the period to clarify how chivalric loyalty controls and ties men together.

Argues that the right use of anger in proper, hierarchical social relationships in SumT affirms aristocratic authority while undermining the pretenses of Friar John and Jankyn the clerk.

Surveys Chaucer's uses of terms for private parts, and argues that his use of "bele chos" (beautiful thing) instead of pudendum (shameful thing) suggests his celebration of the Wife's sexuality.

Uncovers the complex relationship between monumentality and print culture as it contributed to Chaucer's early modern reception in post-Reformation England.

Assesses the inclusion in the mid-1500s of "The Plowman's Tale" in Chaucer's "Workes" and its effects in reading reception and influence on beast fable throughout the sixteenth century.

Explores the cultural ties between the Anglican Church on the American frontier and the Church of England through Elizabeth Whipple's Chaucer portrait.

Compares Chaucer's and Gower's versions of the story of Virginia, her rape, and death, remarking upon their various similarities and differences. Building upon that comparison, offers correctives for how a narrator might be used for old texts in…

Examines the contexts of Criseyde's tears in an antifeminist tradition, to which Chaucer and TC respond, and engages with the revisions to depictions of Criseyde's weeping in TC. Uses insights from sociology and behavioral psychology to argue that…