Traugott Lawler

Professor Emeritus of English

Ph.D., Harvard, 1966
M.A., Wisconsin, 1962
A.B., Holy Cross, 1958

Interests

Middle English especially Chaucer and Langland, Medieval Latin. I am currently working on my share (Volume 4) of the Penn Commentary of Piers Plowman, and on the second volume of “Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves

Selected Publications

- The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 4: C Passus 15-19, B Passus 13-17 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

- Three Troublesome Lines in Chaucer’s General Prologue: 11 (So priketh hem nature), 176 (the space), 739 (Crist spak himself ful brode)” in Pursuing Middle English Manuscripts and their Texts: Essays in Honour of Ralph Hanna, ed. Simon Horobin and Aditi Nafde (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), 225-39.

- “Delicacy vs. Truth: Defining moral heroism in the Canterbury Tales,” in New Readings of Chaucer’s Poetry, ed. Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard ( Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003), 75-90.

- “The Secular Clergy in Piers Plowman,” Yearbook of Langland Studies 16 (2002), 85-117.

- “The Pardon Formula in Piers Plowman: Its Ubiquity, Its Binary Shape, Its Silent Middle Term,” Yearbook of Langland Studies 14 (2000), 117-52.

- The One and the Many in the Canterbury Tales. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1980. (with Ralph Hanna, completing work begun by Karl Young and Robert A. Pratt) Jankyn’s Book of Wikked Wyves. vol. 1, Texts. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

Courses

Undergraduate: Major English Poets; European Literary Tradition; Chaucer; History of the English Language; Old English; The Gawain Poet; Austen and Dickens

Graduate: Old English; Chaucer; Langland; Medieval Latin