Williams English

Sherron E Knopp

John Hawley Roberts
Professor of English

E-mail: Sherron.E.Knopp@williams.edu
Phone: (413) 597-2416


EDUCATION:
BA: Loyola U., Chicago, 1971; PhD: UCLA, 1975.

COURSES TAUGHT:
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Arthurian Literature, Introduction to Medieval Literature,
Poetry and Magic, The Celtic Otherworld: From Myth to Romance, The Faerie Queene.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
"Poetry as Conjuring Act: The Franklin's Tale and The Tempest" (Chaucer Review)
"Augustinian Poetic Theory and the Chaucerian Imagination" (The Idea of Medieval Literature)
" 'If I Saw You Would You Kiss Me?': Sapphism and the Subversiveness of Virginia Woolf's Orlando" (PMLA)
" Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the Survey for Majors" (Approaches to Teaching Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
"The Narrator and His Audience in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde" (Studies in Philology)
"Artistic Design in the Stanzaic Mrote Arthur" (ELH)
Chaucer and the Dilemmas of Fiction (book in process).

NEXT LEAVE:
2003-2004

PRIMARY FIELDS OF INTEREST:
Medieval and Early Modern Literature.

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