David Aers James B. Duke Professor of English and Religious Studies and Historical Theology
Office Location: 402 Allen Bldg
Office Phone: 919-684-5065
Email Address: aers@duke.edu
- Office Hours:
- By appointment
- Education and Interests:
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of York
- Medieval and Reformation Literature and Theology
- David Aers works especially on medieval theology, ecclesiology, literature, and culture in England but these interests extend into the Reformation. His publications in this area include Piers Plowman and Christian Allegory (Arnold 1975), Chaucer, Langland and the Creative Imagination (Routledge, 1980), Literature , Language and Society in England , 1580-1680 , written with bob hodge and gunther kress ( barnes and noble , 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). In 2004 he published Sanctifying Signs: Making Tradition in Late Medieval England (Notre Dame). He is the coeditor of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He is currently completing a book on salvation and sin in the fourteenth century to be published by notre dame university press . David Aers is the James B. Duke Chair of English and Religious Studies and Historical Theology.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- "The Beauty of the Infinite: A Question From the Margin." Theology Today 64 (2007): 139-149.
- Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England. Notre Dame University Press, 2004. 284 pp.
- with S. Beckwith and J. Simpson. Trans-Reformation Studies. Series of books, series entitled: Trans-Reformation Studies, Notre Dame University Press, 2007
- with S. Beckwith. Reform and Cultural Revolution: Writing English Literary History 1350-1547. JMEMS 35.1 (2005).
