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Studies "the literary, religious, and legal histories of felony procedure," focusing on literary depictions of felony, including those in ParsT and MLT.

Eamines uses of Penelope as the figure of the Faithful Woman in numerous late medieval works, including Anel, BD, FranT, and MLT.

Includes discussion of "Chaucer's critique of the rhetoric of moderation in the speech of the Pardoner and the Friar John [in SumT] . . . , who attempted to assert their clerical superiority and cover up their gluttony by preaching moderation."

Assesses Antigone and Cassandra in TC--characters who are themselves "literary creators"--to explore meta-level consideration of reader identification and authorial status.

Considers KnT and TC vis-à-vis Robert Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" as part of a discussion of pain and love in chapter three.

Includes discussion of how Chaucer "lays bare . . . [h]ow language and other signs may be adopted to obscure the patently obvious," arguing that the Pardoner's "constant insistence on corporeal language and imagery always returns the reader to the…

Argues that Lydgate's critical return to prominence, after his earlier diminished critical attention, may stem in part from comparisons with Chaucer.

Suggests that in "Cymbeline," "The Tempest," and "The Taming of the Shrew," Shakespeare sets his work in conversation with the dream visions BD and HF, thereby allowing Shakespeare to claim a place in the Chaucerian line of English canon and to…

Uses CT and PF, among other texts, to examine the development and contemporary understanding of the concept of English Parliament.

Argues that the "Roman de la Rose" "initiates a literary tradition that understands reason to be in tension with and even antithetical to imaginative writing," examining in this light works by Chaucer (TC), Gower, Lydgate, and Hoccleve, exploring in…

Contends that William Baldwin's "Mirror for Magistrates" (1559) was previously seen as linking the medieval literature of Chaucer and Boccaccio with the early moderns.

Suggests that authors including Chaucer, Langland, Hoccleve, and Johannes de Caritate employed Aristotelian and pseudo-Aristotelian sources (many derived from Arabic sources) in the course of exploring types of literary and cultural authority.

Aligns happy endings with the "rhetoric of bliss" in Middle English romances and includes discussion of jealousy as the crux of KnT, arguing that the "happy closure" of the narrative can only come about when the jealousy between Palamon and Arcite is…

Surveys the history of handpress printing of CT, analyzing 140 editions, with particular attention to paratextual material as indication of Chaucer's reception and the "abundance of mediation."

Studies tensions between family approval and the consent of marital couples in late medieval England and its literature, arguing that TC and LGW offer conflicting views of the tension while MLT resolves it.

Includes discussion of feigned conversion and the Sultaness in MLT, arguing that she "represents insecurity over the status of religious converts" rather than being merely villainous.

Includes discussion of LGW, arguing that its narrator "frustrates love conventions that are constructed around the author's presumed heteronormativity" and "privileges literary learning over lived experience within a gendered hierarchical structure."

Includes discussion of TC, arguing that the "ironies and games" in the poem "show how closely amorous pursuits may tread to modern conceptions of rape" and depict courtship as a "zero sum game in which each winning move is a loss."

Uses medieval and modern translation theories to consider Old and Middle English narratives about the origins of English Christianity; includes discussion of MLT and its "unveiling of the hidden inclination toward Christianity among the people of…

Includes discussion of the version of ParsT in Longleat, MS 29, a compilation of devotional works where Chaucer's name is "cut from the tale and the work presented in an unambiguously religious context."

Chapter 2 discusses the Wife of Bath's "unique approach to her fourth husband's death as she balances her postmortem responsibilities to him with her immediate remarriage,' acting with "concern" while also "tending to her own wishes."

Intersectional analysis of four character types in medieval romance. Includes discussion of the loathly lady, WBT, and its analogues, arguing that Chaucer's version offers a figure of power, ambiguous because we remain "unsure whether she will use…

Explores "the complex role of maternal power as it relates to male aristocratic identity" in several romances in Middle English, including MLT and ClT.

Assesses aspects of translation theory and presents a translation of Shin Jae Hyo's version of the "p'ansori Shimcheongga," "rendered in the form of an estranging dialogue with Geoffrey Chaucer . . . in order to interrupt the mechanical forms that…

Studies obedience in Middle English literature, including discussion of the theme in LGW and Ovid's "Tristia" and comparison of ClT and "Pearl" as works which indicate that imperfect obedience "is as culturally and theologically important and perhaps…