Joint PhD in Literary Studies / Theatre Studies in English

Graduate Faculty

 University of Guelph
Wilfrid Laurier University

Stephen Powell, BA (Oberlin College), MA (Indiana U), PhD (University of Toronto).

Associate Professor (2003).

E-mail: spowell@uoguelph.ca

Research Interests

Middle English language and literature, Manuscript studies and history of the book, Textual criticism and editing, History of the English language. Current research includes: A book manuscript on the manuscript transmission of Middle English didactic romances, and a project on the history of the editorial treatment of the works of Geoffey Chaucer.

Selected recent articles

  • "Game Over: Defragmenting the End of the Canterbury Tales.” Chaucer Review 37 (2002): 40-58.

  • “Models of Religious Peace in the Middle English Romance Sir Isumbras.”  Neophilologus 85 (2001): 121-36.

  • “Manuscript Context and the Generic Instability of Roberd of Cisyle.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 100 (1999): 271-89.

  • “Transforming the Proud King Transformed: Robert of Sicily.” Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts. Ed. Gloria Allaire. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. 67-81.

  • “Multiplying Textuality: Generic Migration in the Manuscripts of Roberd of Cisyle.” Anglia 116 (1998): 171-97.

  • “The Journey Forth: Elegiac Consolation in Guthlac B.” English Studies 79 (1998): 489-500.

  • “The Subject of David Copperfield’s Renaming and the Limits of Fiction.” Dickens Studies Annual 31 (2002): 47-66.

  • “Cor Laceratum: Corresponding Till Death in Swift’s Journal to Stella.” Modern Language Review 94 (1999): 341-54.