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Edwin
D. Craun
Henry
S. Fox, Jr., Professor of English
(on leave fall 2008)
Department of English, Payne Hall 2B
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8757
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University
Research and Writing Interests
Medieval literature; justice and law in
Medieval and Renaissance literature;
virtues and vices; social reform in the
Middle Ages. Professor Craun's research has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers (2003), a Jessie Ball Dupont Fellowship, National Humanities Center (2002-3), and a Huntington Library/British Academy Fellowship for Study in Great Britain (2002).
Teaching
English 105—Composition and
Literature
English 235—Fantasy
English 250—British Literature:
Medieval and Early Modern
English 312—Chaucer, Dante,
Langland: Vision and Life
English 313—Chaucer's The
Canterbury Tales
English 314—Romance and Ballad
Seminar Topics
Talk,
Reputation, Slander, Truth, Honor
King Arthur and Robin Hood: Medieval
Legendary Heroes and Modern Revisions
Ethics and the Reading of Shakespeare and
Chaucer
Justice in Late Medieval Literature
Law and Justice in Renaissance Literature
Medieval Western Encounters with the
Moslem World
Pastoral
Selected Publications
Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval
English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and
the Deviant Speaker. Cambridge
University Press, 1997.
"Lewte and the Practice of Fraternal
Correction." Yearbook of Langland
Studies 15 (2001): 15-25.
"'Fama' and Pastoral Constraints on
Rebuking Sin: 'The Book of Margery
Kempe'." Fama: The Politics of
Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe.
Ed. Thelma Fenster and Daniel Small.
Cornell University Press, 2003.
Editor and contributor. The Hands of the Tongue: Essays on Deviant Speech. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007.
"'It is a freletee of flessh': Excuses for Sin, Pastoral Rhetoric, and Moral Agency" in In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard Newhauser. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, 2007. 33-60.
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