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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.
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