David Wallace (medievalist)
British scholar of medieval literature
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David Wallace is a British scholar of medieval literature and Judith Rodin Professor of English, who teaches in the USA University of Pennsylvania.[1] After undergraduate study at the University of York, he completed a Ph.D. in 1983 at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge.[2] From 2018 to 2019, he served a one-year term as President of the Medieval Academy of America.[3]
In 2019, he was awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize by the British Academy "for his lifetime contribution into the study of Chaucer and Medieval English literature".[4]
He is the author and project leader of the website nationalepics.com. This website is in development alongside National Epics, a collaborative work which is to be edited by Wallace.[5]
Books
- Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Introduction (2017)
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing (co-editor with Carolyn Dinshaw; 2003)
- The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (editor; 1999)
- Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy (1997)
