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Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Literature; Professor of English
Ph.D. 1965 (English), Yale; B.A. 1961 (English), Wellesley College.
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Research Interests: Medieval literature and rhetoric; memory and mnemonic technique; the history of spirituality
Affiliations: President, The Medieval Academy of America, 2005; Elected Fellow, The Medieval Academy of America, 1996; President, The New Chaucer Society, 1966-1968; The International Society for the History of Rhetoric; Modem Language Association.
Fellowships/Honors: Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; George Eastman Visiting Professor, The University of Oxford; John S. Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship; The Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America for The Craft of Thought ; National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship; Scholar-in-Residence, J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.
Selected Works:
The Book of Memory: Second Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. ed. with J. M. Ziolkowski. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002.
The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric. and the Making of Images. 400-1200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998.
The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1990.
Acts of Interpretation: The Text in Its Contexts. 700-1600, ed. with Elizabeth D. Kirk. Norman, OK: Pilgrim Books. 1982.
The Search for St. Truth: A Study of Meaning in Piers Plowman. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. 1973.
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