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David Aers, James B. Duke Professor of English and Religious Studies
Office Location: | 402 Allen Building |
Office Phone: | (919) 684-2741 |
Email Address: |
Teaching (Spring 2024):
- ENGLISH 338S.01, MILTON
Synopsis
- Allen 318, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- (also cross-listed as MEDREN 337S.01)
- Allen 318, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- XTIANTHE 890.01, THEOLOGICAL TOPICS
Synopsis
- Langford 060, Th 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- ENGLISH 890S.04, SPECIAL TOPICS SEMINAR
Synopsis
- Divinity TBA, Th 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- HISTTHEO 890.01, TOPICS HISTORICAL THEOL
Synopsis
- Divinity TBA, Th 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- Office Hours:
- By appointment
- Education:
Ph.D. University of York (United Kingdom) 1971 Doctor of Philosophy University of York 1971 BA (included MA) Cambridge University 1968 B.A. University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) 1968
- Specialties:
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Medieval Literature
Renaissance/Early Modern Literature
- Research Interests: Medieval Literature
David Aers works especially on late medieval and early modern literature, religion and culture in England. His publications in this area include Piers Plowman and Christian Allegory (Arnold 1975), Chaucer, Langland and the Creative Imagination (Routledge, 1980), Chaucer (Harvester, 1983), Community, Gender and Individual Identity, 1360-1430 (Routledge, 1988), Powers of the Holy, written with Lynn Staley (Penn State, 1996), and two edited volumes, Medieval Literature: Criticism, Ideology, History (Harvester, 1986) and Culture and History, 1350-1600 (Wayne State, 1992). In 2000 he published Faith, Ethics, and Church: Writing in England 1360-1410 (Brewer) and a collection of essays entitled Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall (Brewer). He has also published on seventeenth-century and late-eighteenth to early nineteenth century writing and been coeditor of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He is James B. Duke Chair of English.
- Areas of Interest:
- British Literature
Literature
Culture/Medieval/Early Modern Literature
- Keywords:
- Europe • England • Medieval Literature • Religion
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- William Revere
- Hannah VanderHart
- Grace Hamman
- Matthew Whelan
- Jessica N. Hines
- Jack Bell
- William Revere
- William Revere
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Aers, D, Langland on the church and the end of the cardinal virtues, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 42 no. 1 (December, 2012), pp. 59-81, Duke University Press, ISSN 1082-9636 [Gateway.cgi], [doi] [abs]
- Aers, D, Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (April, 2009), pp. 1-284, Notre Dame University Press
- Aers, D, Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England (2004), pp. 284 pages, Notre Dame University Press