PUBLICATIONS:

 
Monograph:

“The Liturgical Perspectives of Piers Plowman B, XVI-XIX,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, N.S. 3 (1980), 87-155.

 
Editions and Anthologies:

MLQ 51, 3 (1993, for 1992), special issue of journal containing essays on medieval English literature in honor of David Fowler.

Suche Werkis To Werche: Essays on Piers Plowman in honor of David C. Fowler.  East Lansing, Colleagues Press, 1993. 

Piers Plowman: The A Version.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 

Digital Edition of Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson Poetry 137 (for the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; forthcoming, 2020). 

 
Contribution to Books:

“Tossing Mak Around,” in Richard K. Emmerson, Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama (New York: MLA, 1990), 146-50.

“The Ending(s) of Piers Plowman A.” In Suche Werkis to Werche: Essays on Piers Plowman in Honor of David C. Fowler, ed. Míċeál F. Vaughan (East Lansing MI, Colleagues Press, 1993), 211-41.

“Creating Comfortable Boundaries: Scribes, Editors, and the Invention of the Parson’s Tale.”  In Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602, edited by Thomas A. Predergast and Barbara Kline, (Columbus, Ohio State Press, 1999), 45-90.

“Filling the Gap in Piers Plowman A: Trinity College, Dublin, MS 213.”  In Michael Calabrese and Stephen H. A. Shepherd, ed. Yee? Baw for Bokes: Essays on Medieval Manuscripts and Poetics in Honor of Hoyt N. Duggan. Los Angeles: Marymount Inst. Press, 2013. Pp. 87-106.

“Scribal Corrections in the Auchinleck Manuscript.”  In Susanna Fein, ed. The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives. Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY: Boydell/York Medieval Press, 2016. Pp. 195-208.

“Making a Case for the Priority of the A Version of Piers Plowman  In Thomas A. Goodmann, ed. Approaches to Teaching Langland's Piers Plowman. New York: MLA, 2019. Pp. 209-16.  

 
Essays and Articles:

“A Reconsideration of ‘Unferð,’” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 77 (1976), 32-48.

“An Unnoted Translation of Erasmus in Ascham’s Schoolmaster,” Modern Philology, 75 (1977-78), 184-186.

“Consecutive Alliteration, Strophic Patterns, and the Composition of the Alliterative Morte Arthure,Modern Philology, 77 (1979-80), 1-9.

“Beckett’s Naming of Godot,”Studia Neophilologica, 52 (1980), 119-122.

“The Three Advents in the Secunda Pastorum,” Speculum, 55 (1980), 484-504.

“Chaucer’s Imaginative One-Day Flood,” Philological Quarterly, 60 (1982), 117-123.

“Mak and the Proportions of the Second Shepherds’ Play,” Papers on Language and Literature, 18 (1982), 355-367.

“The Prophets of the Anglo-Norman Adam,”  Traditio, 39 (1983):81-114.

“Charles of Orleans,” Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Vol. III (1984), 272-273.

“‘Til I gan Awake’: The Conversion of Dreamer into Narrator in Piers Plowman B.”,  The Yearbook of Langland Studies 5 (1991), 175-92.

“The Secular Clergy in Piers Plowman: A Response.”  The Yearbook of Langland Studies 16 (2002), 118-29.

“Hunting for the Hurt in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess.” Lingua Humanitatis 2, 2
(2002), 85-107.

“Personal Politics and Thomas Gascoigne’s Account of Chaucer’s Death.” Medium Ævum 75 (2006), 103-22.

“Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and the Auchinleck MS: Analogous Collections.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 242 (2005), 259-74.

“Great Tea: Something Old, Something Borrowed, and (Not-So-Great) Vowel Shifts in English.” Philological Review 34 (2008), 79-109.

“Where Is Wille Buried? Piers Plowman A 12.105.” The Yearbook of Langland Studies 25 (2011), 131-36.

“After the Epiphany: Gabriel Conroy, Gabriel Conroy, and the Journey Westward.” New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua, 21,4 (Winter 2017), 134-49.

 
Book Reviews:

John Burrow, Langland’s Fictions (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1993), Studies in the Age of Chaucer 17 (1995), 182-85.

Rosemarie P. McGerr, Chaucer’s Open Texts: Resistance to Closure in Medieval Literature (Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 1998), ENVOI 8 (1998), 150-161.

James Dean, The World Grown Old in Later Medieval Literature (Cambridge, MA, The Medieval Academy, 1997), The Yearbook of Langland Studies 12 (1998), 189-94.

George Economou, trans. William Langland’s Piers Plowman: The C Version: A Verse Translation (Middle Ages Series; Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. xxxiv, 262), Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998), 243-6.

Florence Percival, Chaucer’s Legendary Good Women: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 38. (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998), The Medieval Review 99.10.02

Christopher Cannon. The Making of Chaucer’s English: A Study of Words.  Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 39. (Cambridge [UK]: Cambridge University Press, 1998), Medievalia et Humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture 27 (2000): 118-20.

D. Vance Smith, The Book of the Incipit: Beginnings in the Fourteenth Century. (Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), JEGP 102 (2003): 143-46.

Anita Obermeier, The History and Anatomy of Auctorial Self-Criticism in the European
Middle Ages
.  Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 32. (Amsterdam/Athens GA: Rodopi, 1999), Speculum 78 (2003), 236-39.

Emily Steiner, Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature. (Cambridge/New York; Cambridge University Press, 2003), JEGP 104 (2005), 294-96.

Ralph Hanna, London Literature, 1300-1380. (Cambridge/New York; Cambridge University Press, 2005), Speculum 82 (2007), 446-47.

Butterfield, Ardis, ed. Chaucer and the City (Chaucer Studies XXXVII; Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2006), JEGP 108 (2009), 114-117.

Lawrence Warner, The Lost History of Piers Plowman: The Earliest Transmission of Langland's Work (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), SHARP News 21 (Winter 2012): 14.

Arvind Thomas, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Later Middle Ages (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019), Christianity & Literature 70, 2 (June 2021): 165-70.

 
Notes, Newsletter Contributions:

“Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Washington,” Chronica, 20 (Spring 1977), 3-6.

“Fractured Fairy Tale” (review of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Nutcracker), The Weekly, 23-29 December 1987, p. 38.

“Dancing With Heroes.” Encore 5, 2 (1991-92): 16-17.

“Seattle Congress, 1-4 August 1992.”  The Chaucer Newsletter 14, 1 (Spring 1992): 1-2.

“Faculty Senate” columns, University Week, 1992-93.

Piers Plowman: The E Version.”  Medieval Academy News (November 2001).

 
Scripts Produced:

Second Shepherds’ Pageant (in my translation), performed at Greenspire Medieval Faire (dir. Marilyn Thornton), Seattle, WA, September 12-13, 1998.

Everyman (in my modernization: 1996), performed at Second Stage, Philadelphia (dir. Michael Steven Schultz), January 29-30, 1999.
 

FORTHCOMING

Articles:

“The Summoner’s Tale,” (commissioned for The Chaucer Encyclopedia).

“Pardon” and “Pardoner,” (commissioned for The Chaucer Encyclopedia). 

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Book:

Taking Back the Canterbury Tales: The Reception and Transmission of Chaucer’s “Retractions.”

Article:

“Rewriting 'Chaucer' in the Hengwrt MS.”

Editions and Anthologies:

Sources and Anthologies for Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women.