DR. T. H. CROFTS

his ETSU web page

British Library Add. MS 59678, f. 35r

Education

Ph.D. English, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2003 (concentration: medieval, minor: classics)

M. A. English, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1997

M. Phil. Anglo-Irish Literature, Trinity College, Dublin 1992

B. A. English, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 1990

Interests

Teaching: Old and Middle English literature, Latin language and literature, 17th century poetry, Anglo-Irish poetry

Research: Sir Thomas Malory, medieval Arthurian literature, manuscripts and codicology, 14th-15th century poetry

Publications

book

Malory's Contemporary Audience: The Social Reading of Romance in Late Medieval England (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer 2006)

chapters, articles and reviews

“Perverse and Contrary Deeds: The Giant of Mont Saint Michel and the Alliterative Morte Arthure” in The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain eds. A. Hopkins and C. Rushton (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2007)

Review of Latin Arthurian Literature by Mildred Leake Day, Arthuriana 16.1 (2006)

“Malory’s Moral Scribes: Marginalia, Exemplarity and ‘Balyn le Sauvage’ in the Winchester Manuscript”, Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire no. 83 (2006)

“‘thynges forsayd aledged’: Historia and argumentum in Caxton’s Preface to the Morte Darthur” in Re-viewing Malory, eds. R. Radulescu and K. Whetter (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005)

poems

‘Ereshkigal in Furs,’ ‘Untitled,’ and ‘Chainsaw Friend,’ Arabesques Review (Algeria) Vol. II, no. 4, 2007

‘Unplug the Vegetables’ and ‘On Learning of a Famous Poet’s Syphilis,’ The Upstart Crow, Vol. XXVI, 2006

'Didaktikon of Death,’ The Texas Observer, September 9, 2005 (Volume 97, No. 17)

‘Kilcolman,’ The Madison Insurgent, October 2001, #5

edition

The Cavalier Poets: An Anthology (New York: Dover Publications, 1996)