German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures; Medieval Studies
Elected 1992
The social & cultural history of Continental Europe in Late Antiquity & the Middle Ages.
Religious and cultural history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Medieval literary theory and the psychology of literary response; poetic identity in the Middle Ages; Nietzschean slow reading; medieval religious writing ("vernacular theology"); Syon Abbey; history of the book
