Peter W. Travis

Professor of English
Henry Winkley Professorship in Anglo-Saxon & English Language and Literature

Departments and Programs English Related Links http://www.dartmouth.edu/~english/faculty/travis.html

Contact Information

Email: peter.w.travis@dartmouth.edu

Phone: 603-646-2931

Hinman Box: HB 6032

Education

• B.A. Bowdoin College; M.Litt. Trinity College, Dublin; M.A. University of Chicago; Ph.D. University of Chicago

Areas of Expertise

• Medieval literature; contemporary critical theory; Chaucer; contemporary masculinities

Selected Works

• “The English Department in the Globalized University,” ADE Bulletin , 139 (2006) 51-56.
• “The Body of The Nun’s Priest, or, Chaucer’s Disseminal Genius,” in Reading Medieval Culture: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Hanning , R M Stein and S Pierson Prior (eds.), (2005), 231-247.
• “The Manciple’s Phallic Matrix,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 25, (2003), 317-324.
• “White,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 22, (2000), 1-66.
• Dramatic Design in the Chester Cycle , (1982).

Current Projects

• Disseminal Chaucer: Misreading in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale ; "Aesop’s Medieval Animots "