Jim Knowles, Graduate Student
Office Location: 418F Perkins Library
Email Address: jrk5@duke.edu
Specialties:
Medieval Literature
Renaissance Literature
Poetry
Education:
PhD (expected), Duke University, 2009
BA, Davidson College, 1993
Current projects: Dissertation: "Love, Labor, Liturgy: Languages of Service in Late Medieval England"
Teaching (Fall 2009): (typical courses)
- Eng 90, Pilgimage of life: religious writing in england from chaucer to milton
- Writing 20, The god debates: faith, reason, and science
Highlight:
Jim Knowles works on late medieval English literature, history, and theology. His dissertation is about the language of service in several Middle English texts, notably Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Langland's Piers Plowman, and the Revelation of Love by Julian of Norwich.
He also serves on the editorial staff for the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and the Yearbook of Langland Studies.