Announcement: Staff Student Seminar Series
On Wednesday 16 October,
Professor A. C. Spearing (University of Virginia), will address the
Staff and Postgraduate Research Seminar. The title of his paper his:
What is a Narrator? Narrator Theory and Medieval Narratives
A. C. Spearing is
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at the University of
Virginia, specializing in medieval literature. He is perhaps most widely
known for his books on the Gawain-Poet and
Medieval Dream-Poetry and for his translation of The Cloud of Unknowing
and several works on Geoffrey Chaucer. Titles of books by Professor
Spearing include: Criticism and Medieval Poetry (1964, 2 edn 1972); An
Introduction to Chaucer (with Maurice Hussey
and James Winny, 1965); The Medieval Poet as Voyeur (1993); Textual
Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Romances and
Lyrics (2005).
We’re very fortunate to
have such a distinguished speaker open this year’s programme and I hope
that many of you will be able to attend. The seminar will
will take place in Hallgarth House seminar room at 4:30, followed by drinks in The Victoria.
