George Edmondson

|Professor
Academic Appointments

Professor of English and Creative Writing

I work at the intersection, dangerous at times but well policed, of medieval studies and critical theory. On the medieval-studies side of the street you will find a book, The Neighboring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson, its Choice Outstanding Academic Title award still proudly displayed in the window, alongside articles and chapters in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Chaucer Review, Exemplaria, New Medieval Literatures, and The Post-Historical Middle Ages. Venture down the critical-studies side of the street and you will run across the collection Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis, coedited with Klaus Mladek (Duke University Press, 2017), and A Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to Arendt , coauthored with Klaus Mladek (Princeton University Press, 2024). I have also been known to wander down side streets and blind alleys in pursuit of my other interests, which include psychoanalysis, biopolitics, and the literature of walking.

Contact

George.Edmondson@dartmouth.edu
Sanborn, Room 212
HB 6032

Education

  • B.A. University of California at Los Angeles
  • M.A. University of California at Los Angeles
  • Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles

Selected Publications

  • The Neighboring Text: Henryson, Boccaccio, Chaucer. The University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. 

  • "Neighbors, Natural and Otherwise, in 'The Vox and the Wolf'." New Medieval Literatures 12 (2010): 89-114.

  • "Pearl: The Shadow of the Object, the Shape of the Law." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 (2004): 29-63. Reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism Online. Thomas Gale, forthcoming.

  • "Naked Chaucer." In The Post-Historical Middle Ages, eds. Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico. Palgrave, 2009: 139-160.

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Works In Progress

Backpack: A History

Selected Works & Activities

  • 2011 Choice Outstanding Academic Title for The Neighboring Text

  • ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship, 2014-2015