Professor of English
Ph.D. 1993 (English), M.A. 1989, B. A. summa cum laude 1987, Harvard.

Research Interests:

Early Middle English; Chaucer; language and theories of language; questions of form; problems of literary history.

Fellowships/Honors:

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; The Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize, Medieval Academy of America.

Selected Works:

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.

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