Tuesday, February 7 in LC 317 at 5:00 p.m. The English Department Late-Medieval English Literature Series presents: Vincent Gillespie is J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language, University of Oxford. Professor Gillespie’s research considers the broad range of post-conquest writing in England, with particular interests in literary theory, religious writing, mystical language, and concepts of poetic identity in medieval and early modern writers. At the core of his many publications is a curiosity about the psychology of literary response: the ways in which writers struggle to express experiences and acts of imagination, the strategies they use to articulate their understanding of these experiences and imaginative acts, and the codes and conventions that develop between texts and readers to allow communication and understanding to develop and to be manipulated.