PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Conferences, Lectures, and Readings:

“The Prophets and the Unity of the Jeu d’Adam,” French Section of MLA, December 28, 1973; Medieval Colloquium, University of Washington, April 4, 1974.

Chairman, Panel on “Staging Medieval Drama:  The Local Evidence,” Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of Washington, February 22, 1975.

University of Washington representative to Medieval Academy of America’s Subcommittee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA), 1975--.

“The Second Shepherds’ Play in Triple Time:  The Multiple Advent of Christ in the Pre-Christmas Liturgy,” Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, Davis, California, February 20, 1976.

_________.  Expanded version delivered to Medieval Colloquium, University of Washington, May 6, 1976.

_________.  Revised version read in EGO Lecture series, University of Washington, December 2, 1976.

“Extended Alliteration, Quatrain Patterns and the Composition of the Alliterative Morte Arthure,” Twelfth Conference on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6, 1977.

“Chaucer in Italy,” The Dante Alighieri Society of Washington, October 16, 1977.

“Mak and the Proportions of the Second Shepherds’ Play,” University of Washington Medieval Colloquium, February 7, 1980.

“Chaucer’s Imaginative One-Day Flood,” colloquium on Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale, University of Washington Medieval Colloquium, January 15, 1981.

“‘Til I Gan Awake’:  Beginnings and Endings in Piers Plowman B,” Medieval Association of the Pacific Annual Conference, Claremont, California, February 19, 1982.

“The Authenticity of Chaucer’s Pardons,” Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, March 17, 1984.

“The Liturgical Contexts of the Middle English Annunciation Plays,” University of Washington Medieval Colloquium, December 13, 1984.

“The Liturgical Contexts of the Middle English Annunciation Plays,” Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., 27 December 1984.

“The Mastery of the Wakefield Annunciation,” invited address, Symposium on Medieval Drama, University of California, Irvine, September 27, 1986.

“Brian Friel’s Translations and the Transfers of Power,” American Committee for Irish Studies Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Conference, University College, Dublin, July 1, 1987.

“The Voices of the Retracciouns,” New Chaucer Society Congress, UBC, August l0, 1988.

“The Polyphonic Voices of Chaucer’s ‘Retracciouns’,” University of  Washington Medieval Colloquium, April 6, 1989.

“Irish and Scandinavians at the Battle of Clontarf” in UW Extension Lecture Series: The Celtic-Scandinavian Legacy. November 14, 1990.

“Narrative Closure and Chaucerian Polyphony,” UCLA Department of English and Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, November 30, 1990.

“Englishing Cato in the Vernon MS,” Medieval Association of the Pacific annual meeting, University of California-Irvine, February 21, 1992.

“Seeing and Hearing Voices: Polytextuality and Polyphony in Chaucer,” paper (delivered in absentia--absence caused by recovery from injury) in colloquium on “Gothic Chaucer and Gothic Music,” New Chaucer Society biennial Congress, Trinity College Dublin, July 1994.

“Electronics in the Service of Medieval Poetry” (with Clinton Atchley), a talk in the UW Libraries Scholarly Publication Series, 7 March 1995.

“How Many Authors Does it Take to Write Piers Plowman?” Reassessing Fowler’s Evidence for the A and B Texts” in a session on The construction of Authorship and the Editing of Piers Plowman at the 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 10, 1997.  (Also presented at University of Washington, April 25, 1997)

“Taking Back the ‘Retractions’, “Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Sorbonne, Paris, July 17, 1998.

“The Secular Clergy in Piers Plowman: A Response,” Second International Langland Conference, UNC Asheville. July 28, 1999.

“Scribal and Ornamental Campaigns in the Auchinleck MS.” Lecture sponsored by UW’s Graduate Students in Medieval Studies, February 10, 2000.

“Scribal and Ornamental Campaigns in the Auchinleck MS.” Presentation to the Medieval English Seminar, University of Birmingham (England), May 17, 2000. (an extended version of the foregoing, invited by Wendy L. Scase, Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature.)

“Scribal and Paratextual Campaigns in the Auchinleck MS (Advocates MS 19.2.1),” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (England), 10 July 2000.

“Personal Politics and Gascoigne’s Account of Chaucer’s Death,” Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society, University of Colorado, Boulder, 20 July 2002.

“A New Edition of the A Text,” Piers Plowman Workshop, Nottingham University, 7 July 2003.

“A Hypertext Piers A for Students,” The Third International Conference on ‘Piers Plowman,’ University of Birmingham, 12 July 2003.

“Chaucer and the Auchinleck MS: Canterbury Fragments and Manuscript Booklets,” Biennial Conference of the new Chaucer Society (Glasgow University, July 19, 2004).

“Re-placing the Ra text,” Piers, Plowman Workshop, University of Virginia, 31 July 2005.

“A Fourth Manuscript with the ‘John But’ Passus at the End of the A Version of Piers Plowman?” Medieval Association of the Pacific annual meeting, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, 4 March 2006.

“Scribal Corrections of Error in the Auchinleck MS,” London Old and Middle English Research Seminar on the Auchinleck Manuscript (University of London), 20-21 June 2008.

“Simpson Center for the Humanities: Digital Humanities, Text and Teaching,” SHARP conference (Oxford Brookes University), 24-28 June 2008.

“Scribal and Paratextual Campaigns in the Auchinleck Manuscript,” Medieval Association of the Pacific conference (University of New Mexico), 6-7 March 2009.

“Now You See It; Now You Don't: Textual Relocation in Piers Plowman,” Workshop of the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive (Loyola Marymount University), 31 May-2 June, 2009.

“The A Version,” for Editing Piers Plowman: A Roundtable, The Sixth International Piers Plowman Conference (University of Washington, Seattle), 23-25 July 2015.

“Reopening the End of the Canterbury Tales,” Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, Boston, 26 February 2016.

“Printing the End of the Canterbury Tales: Caxton to Skeat (and Beyond),” Fiftieth Anniversary Conference of the Medieval Association of the Pacific, University of California, Davis, 2 April 2016.