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The Contributors M A R Y E. B L O C K L E Y (PhD, Yale) is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author ofAspects of Old English Poetic Syntax: Where Clauses Begin (2001) and co-author with the late Celia M. Millward of the forthcoming third edition of A Biography of the English Language (Harcourt). email: blockley@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu S. K. BREHE (PhD, Minnesota) is an Assistant Professor in the Department Language and Literature at North Georgia College and State University. H e has published articles about early Middle English alliterative works, among them 'Reassembling the First Worcester Fragment' (Speculum, 1990). H e is a contributor to the planned Continuum Encyclopaedia ofBritish Literature (2002). email: sbrehe@ngcsu.edu W. A. DAVENPORT (MA, London) is Professor of English Language and Literature in the Department of English at Royal Holloway University of London. He is the author of The Art ofthe Gawain Poet (1978), Fifteenth-Century Englis Drama (1982), Chaucer: Complaint and Narrative (1988) and Chaucer and his English Contemporaries (1998). email: t.davenport@rhul.ac.uk MARTIN J DUFFELL (PhD, London) is a Research Fellow in the Department ofHispanic Studies and Italian at Queen Mary University of London and is editor of the Hispanic Research Journal. He has most recently published Modern Metrical Theory and the 'Verso de arte mayor' (1999), and "The Craft so Long to Leme"- Chaucer's Invention ofthe Iambic Pentameter' (Chaucer Review, 19992000 ). email: m.j.duffell@qmw.ac.uk 252 The Contributors H O Y T N. D U G G A N (PhD, Princeton) is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. With Thorlac Turville-Petre he edited The Wars ofAlexander for the EETS (1989) and Trinity College, Cambridge, M S B.15.17 of the B text of Piers Plowman for The Society of Early English and Norse Electronic Texts (SEENET) (1994), and he has written a series of articles on Middle English alliterative metre. email: hnd@virginia.edu SUSANNA GREER FEIN (PhD, Harvard) is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. She is author of several studies of Middle English verse, and has edited Moral Love Songs and Laments (1998) and Studies in the Harley Manuscript: The Scribes, Contents, and Social Conte ofBritish Library MS Harley 2253 (2000). email: sfein@kent.edu JUDITH A. JEFFERSON (PhD, Bristol) is the author of 'The Hoccleve Holographs and Hoccleve's Metrical Practice', in Manuscripts and Texts: Editorial Problems in Later Middle English Literature, ed. by Derek Pearsall (1987). She has recently been working on a Leverhulme-funded project on Middle English metre at Queen Mary University of London. RUTH KENNEDY (PhD, Bristol) is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Royal Holloway University of London. She has edited '"A Bird in Bishopswood": Some Newly Discovered Lines ofAlliterative Verse', in Medieval Literature and Antiquities, ed. by Myra Stokes and T. L. Burton (1987), and is the editor of the forthcoming Three Alliterative Saints' Hymns for the E E T S (2002). email: r.kennedy@rhul.ac.uk AD PUTTER (PhD, Cambridge) is Reader in English at the University of Bris He is the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and French Arthurian Romance (1995) and An Introduction to the Gawain-Poet (1996), and is co-editor of The Spirit ofMedieval English Popular Romance (2000). One of his present research projects is a study of the popular romance tradition in later medieval England, email: a.d.putter@bristol.ac.uk ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA (PhD, Oxford) works for the Oxford Text Archive. She edited the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales on CD-ROM (2000), and is author of 'Chaucer's Metre and Scribal Editing in the Early Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales', in The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, 2, ed. by Norman Blake and Peter Robinson (1997), and 'Layout, Punctuation and Stanza Patterns in Middle English Verse', in Studies in the Harley The Contributors 253 Manuscript, ed. by Susanna Greer Fein (2000). email: esolopova@britishlibrary.net MYRA STOKES (PhD, Bristol) is Senior Lecturer in English at the Universi of Bristol. She is the...

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