Contributors

Contributors ALAN T. GAYLORD is a Professor of English at Dartmouth College, teach­ ing courses in Chaucer, medieval romance, medieval literature, and history of the English Language. His published essays deal with Chaucer, including "The Promises in the Franklin's Tale," "The Role of Saturn in the Knight's Tale," and "Scanning the Prosodists: An Essay in Metacriticism." He has completed a ms on Chaucer's Troilus, and is an editor in the Variorum Chaucer, preparing the Knight's Tale. JUDITH GROSSMAN teaches in the Department of English and American Literature at Brandeis University. She has written a dissertation on conventional and innovative features of poetic style in The Canter­ bury Tales, and is now working on a series of essays tracing develop­ ments in the way people are represented in literature in the late Medieval and early Renaissance periods. STEPHEN MANNING teaches in the Department of English at The Uni­ versity of Kentucky, Lexington. He has written on the Middle Eng­ lish lyric, Chaucer, and medieval allegory, and is currently trying to decide if the world needs another book on Chaucer. GEORGE B. PACE is preparing, with Alfred David, the Variorum Chaucer Minor Poems (Part 1, of two parts, now completed). He is currently Catherine Middlebush Professor of English Literature at the Uni­ versity of Missouri-Columbia. EDMUND RE1ss, Professor of English at Duke University, founder and former co-editor of the Chaucer Review, has written several studies of late medieval literature including Sir Thomas Malory, The Art CONTRIBUTORS of the Middle English Lyric, and, most recently, William Dunbar. He is currently working on an edition of The Shipman's Tale for the Variorum Chaucer, as well as a study, Chaucer and the Craft of Fiction. FLORENCE RrnLEY received her PhD. from Harvard University. She is a Professor of English Literature at UCLA, the author of books and numerous articles on Chaucer and the medieval Scots poets, most notably The Prioress and the Critics and "The Middle Scots," fascicle X in A Manual of Writings in Middle English. R. A. SHoAF is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Yale Uni­ versity where he teaches Chaucer, Middle English, Old Norse and medieval language theory. His publications include studies of Dante and Lucan as well qS Chaucer. He is currently preparing a book on Chaucer's poetry of the commercial world. PAUL STROHM is Professor and Chairperson of English at Indiana Univer­ sity. He has published articles on medieval genre theory and related subjects in such periodicals as Speculum, Modern Philology, The Chaucer Review, and Genre. He is now studying the social composi­ tion of the fourteenth-century English reading public. LINDA EHRSAM VorcTs, an Assistant Professor of English at the Uni­ versity of Missouri-Kansas City, is a 1978-79 Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at Harvard University. She has published articles in Manuscripta, Studies in Iconography, and Bul­ letin of the History of Medicine. BARRY ALEXANDER WrNDEATT is a Fellow m English of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is the author of a number of articles on Chaucer and the Medieval English Mystics. His new edition of Troilus and Criseyde from all the mss, and his volume of Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's Dream Poetry, are both forthcoming. 257 ...