Peter W. Travis

The Henry Winkley Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature

Ph.D., University of Chicago

208 Sanborn House
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755

peter.w.travis@dartmouth.edu

My primary interests are medieval literature and contemporary critical theory; I've recently developed and taught a College Course on contemporary masculinities called "The Masculine Mystique."

Courses

Old English Language and Literature (English 19), Chaucer I, The Canterbury Tales (English 20), Chaucer II (English 21), Medieval English Literature (English 22), advanced seminars in Medieval English Drama and the Complete Works of the Gawain Poet, and English 15 (Literary Theory).

Selected Publications

• "White," Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2000) 20, 1-67.
• "Reading Chaucer Ab Ovo: Mock-Exemplum in the Nun's Priest's Tale," in The Performance of Medieval Culture (1998), pp. 161-82.
• "Chaucer's Chronographiae, the Confounded Reader, and Fourteenth-Century Measurements of Time," Disputatio 2 (1997), 1-34.
• "Chaucer's Heliotropes and the Poetics of Metaphor," Speculum 72 (1997), 399-427.
• "Deconstructing Chaucer's Retraction." Exemplaria 3(1991): 135-58.
• "The Social Body of the Dramatic Christ in Medieval England." ACTA 13 (1987).
• Dramatic Design in the Chester Cycle. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982.