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Rita Copeland
Kahn Endowed Term Professor
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I work across a number of fields and
periods, including: medieval literature (English, Latin, French); literary
theory from ancient to modern; the history of rhetoric; the reception of classical
traditions in medieval and early modern Europe; intellectuals, learning, and
literacy in medieval Europe. Usually my teaching combines my interests in
antiquity and the Middle Ages--or how the Middle Ages understood antiquity. Among my current projects are the Oxford History of Classical Reception in
English Literature vol. 1, The Middle
Ages, and essays on medieval Latin annotation and glossing and on
Aristotle's Rhetoric in medieval
England. I am also interested in
representations of the intellectual in pre-modern Europe, from late antique
rhetorical culture to late medieval university cultures and heretical
communities. My recent books are: Medieval
Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory AD 300-1475, co-authored with Ineke Sluiter; and
The Cambridge Companion to Allegory, co-edited with Peter Struck.
I am a co-founder of the annual New Medieval Literatures (see
information at Brepols), and co-editor, with
Jill Ross, of Toronto Studies in
Medieval and Early Modern Rhetoric, a new book series from Pontifical Institute
of Mediaeval Studies. In fall,
2010, I will be a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Jerusalem,
working in the research group Encountering Scripture. Recent graduate courses that I have
taught include: The Classics and Middle English Literature; Medieval Education;
The Sophists: Ancient Traditions
and Post-Classical Receptions (co-taught with Ralph Rosen); Introduction to
Literary Theory (Comparative Literature); Medieval Allegory; Premodern
Rhetorics; Piers Plowman; Chaucer's Classicism. Undergraduate courses that I teach include: History of
Literary Theory (Ancient to Modern); Ancient and Medieval Epic; The Romance of
Pagan Antiquity. Books: Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and
Translation in the Middle Ages: Academic Traditions and Vernacular Texts. Cambridge, 1991/1995. Criticism and Dissent in the
Middle Ages. Cambridge, 1996. Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and
Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning. Cambridge, 2001. Co-authored
with Ineke Sluiter, Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and
Literary Theory AD 300-1475. Oxford,
2009 Co-edited
with Peter Struck, The Cambridge Companion to Allegory. Cambridge, 2010 Co-edited
with Christopher Cannon and Nicolette Zeeman, Medieval Grammar and the
Literary Arts, special issue of New Medieval Literatures (2009) This page is maintained by rcopelan@sas.upenn.edu. Medieval Background/Border, and Logo (modified Medieval Cat teaching Mice ex MS Ashmole 1525, fol. 39) courtesy of Eric Kondratieff and Forum Antiquum, 2002.. |
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