John P. Sexton
Assistant Professor of English
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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
I am also the co-President of the New England Saga Society (NESS), an
academic society dedicated to promoting the study of medieval Icelandic
literature and culture in North American academe.
New England Saga Society
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.
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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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