Traugott Lawler
Ph.D., Harvard, 1966
M.A., Wisconsin, 1962
A.B., Holy Cross, 1958
Interests
Middle English especially Chaucer and Langland, Medieval Latin. I have finished editing and translating Gervase of Melkley’s Ars versificatoria; it will appear from the Dunbarton Oaks Medieval Library early in 2025. I am currently (Fall 2024) teaching a course in the Yale Alumni College on Joyce’s Ulysses.
Selected Publications
- 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.
- “Langland Translating.” In Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England, ed. Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway. Columbus, OH, 2013, pp 54-74.
- “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.
- “Deconstructing the Canterbury Tales: Con.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Proceedings 2, 1987, 83-91. (Part of a debate with Peggy Knapp, who took the “Pro” side.) Reprinted in Critical Essays on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, ed. Malcolm Andrew (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991), pp. 222-29.
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
updated October 2024
