Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., English Literature, University of California at Los Angeles
B.A. and A.M., English Literature, University of California at Los Angeles
212 Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
george.edmondson@dartmouth.edu
I was introduced to medieval literature and critical theory at roughly the same time, and now I can’t seem to separate the two: My readings in one continue to inform my readings in the other. In particular, I find that psychoanalysis opens up new ways of understanding not only the relations in and among medieval texts but also our relation, as modern subjects, to the remainders of premodernity existing on the contemporary scene. Also of great interest to me are the rituals surrounding death — mourning, funerary rites, tomb-building — and the various ways in which poetics intersects with those rituals. Ideally, all of these interests will converge in my current project, Troilus and Criseyde Between Two Deaths: Ethics and Interment in Literary Tradition.
English 15 Introduction to Literary Theory
English 70 The Story of Troilus and Cressida: 1160-1650 (05W)
"Pearl: The Shadow of the Object, the Shape of the Law," Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 2004.
"Fremde and Neighbor: On Chaucer's Encounter with Il Filostrato," forthcoming, Fourteenth International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Glasgow, July 2004.
