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Russell A. Peck
John Hall Deane Professor of English
Ph.D. Indiana University
 Russell Peck is founder and general editor of the Middle English Text Series, published by the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS). Fifty-two volumes are underway or are published. His research ranges broadly through all genres of English and Scottish literature of the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries and various facets of medieval cultural studies. He is currently working on Gower's Co nfessio Amantis, Chaucerian poetics, phenomenology and medieval semiotic theory, and philosophical concerns of the will, intentionality, and semiotics, particularly in the fourteenth century. He is also reading in Arthurian literature in the nineteent h and twentieth centuries and exploring cultural phenomena pertaining to Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, popular culture, myth criticism, and film studies.
Taught at Indiana University, the University of Hull (Yorkshire), the College of St. Thomas, and Colgate University. Author of Kingship and Common Profit in Gower's Confessio Amantis; Chaucer's Lyrics and Anelida and Arcite: An Annotated Bibli ography; Chaucer's Boece, Romaunt, Astrolabe, Equatorie, Lost Works and the Chaucer Apocrypha: An Annotated Bibliography; articles on Chaucer, Gower, The Alliterative Morte Arthure, Parlement of the Three Ages, St. Erkenwald, numerology, poetics, imagination, medieval intellectual history, social unrest, medieval social history, Ecclesiastes, Shakespeare, and Mike Nichols's Working Girl; editor of Gower's Confessio Amantis, Heroic Women from The Old Testame nt in Middle English Verse, and Religious Typology in Recent Cinema. Associate Editor of Mediaevalia editorial board of the Graduate Record Examination, chair of the editorial board of TEAMS, bibliographer for Studies in the Age of C haucer and the Modern Language Association. Mercer Brugler Profesor of Humanities 1982-85, founding director of the Medieval House, director of Drama House, Edward Peck Curtis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching (1972), E. Harris Harbison Award for Gift ed Teaching (1972), Students' Association Award for Undergraduate Teaching (1982), 1985 Professor of the Year (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education), Guggenheim Fellow, Danforth Associate Fellow, NEH Seminar Director, Board of the Conferen ce on Christianity and Literature (MLA). Courses in ancient literature, Chaucer, Gower, Langland, Middle English literature, Arthurian literature, medieval drama, theater in England, folk literature and myth, history of the English language, Shakespeare, medievalism in the twentieth century, framing blackness in the cinema.
Email: rpec@troi.cc.rochester.edu |
