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John P. Sexton

Assistant Professor of English

Contact Information

Office: 305 Tillinghast Hall
Phone: (508)531-1471
E-mail: John.Sexton@bridgew.edu

When time allows, I am a regular contributor to MassMedieval, the Massachusetts State Universities Medieval Studies Blog:

John P. Sexton | MASSachusetts State Universities MEDIEVAL Blog

Education

Ph.D. in Medieval Studies...University of Connecticut 2007
M.A. in Medieval Studies....University of Connecticut 2000
B.A. in Liberal Arts.............Goddard College 1996

Research and Teaching Interests

Anglo-Saxon Literature; British Literature of the Medieval and Early Modern periods, 600-1649AD; Chaucer and the 14th century; Church History to 1600; Hagiography; Icelandic Sagas; Medieval Disability Studies.

Publications

"Difference and Disability: On the Logic of Naming in the Icelandic Sagas." in Disability in the Middle Ages: Reconsiderations and Reverberations. Ed. Joshua R. Eyler. London and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. 149-163
"In Praise of the Saints: Introducing Medieval Hagiography into the British Literature Survey." This Rough Magic 2:1. August 15, 2010. http://www.thisroughmagic.org/
"The Miller's Tale, ll.3466-3499: Narrative Inconsistency and the First Fragment of The Canterbury Tales." (w/ Joshua R. Eyler). ANQ 21.3 (2008), 2-6.
"Saint's Law: Anglo-Saxon Sanctuary Protection in the Translatio et Miracula S. Swithuni." Florilegium 23.2 (2008, for 2006), 61-80.
"Once More to the Grove: A Note on Symbolic Space in the Knight's Tale." (w/ Joshua R. Eyler). The Chaucer Review 40 (2006), 433-439.

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John P. Sexton

Assistant Professor of English