The local section of the NY Times reports that the current pope loves cats: Though Benedict is the first pope to be written about by…
The better essays are Teresa Mangum’s “Dog Years, Humans Fears,” which opened me up to the proliferation of 19th-c. English works told from a dogs’-eye…
I met with an independent study student today about Sir Gowther. Without much luck, we tried to track Gowther’s developing relations with dogs after the…
Well, it certainly makes one want to turn the pages quickly. Brig. Guy-Richie and Apthorpe, both of whom I know from the The Oxford Book of…
Maybe you know what to do with the Arthurian opening of the Wife of Bath’s tale. I don’t, not quite, but then again, I’ve only…
I taught as much of the Reeve’s Tale as I could yesterday, but I must take it up again on Wednesday: for the extended discussion,…
I’ve seen a fair amount of Macbeth in the last few months. I finally got around to seeing Throne of Blood, I followed this up…
I thank Michael Moon’s “Do You Smoke? Or, Is There Life? After Sex?” in After Sex? On Writing since Queer Theory (SAQ Summer 2007) for…
Today, a brief genealogical foray slid into an hours-long expedition culminating in Groton, Suffolk, a minor town once lorded over by Bury St. Edmunds, and…
Yesterday, on the first day of my undergraduate Chaucer class, I distributed a questionnaire that asked students to “list three things you know or think…
