Lynn Arner, Ph. D.

Lynn Arner has published articles on Confessio Amantis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Chaucer, and feminism in academe; she has also guest-edited a special issue of Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.  Lynn is currently writing a book on Gower, Chaucer, urban literacy, and vernacular literature in the wake of the English Rising of 1381. Lynn is a founding member of The Gower Project.

Areas of interest: late medieval English literature and history; literacy; the English Rising of 1381; English colonialism in the British Isles; historiography; women’s studies; and contemporary theory (especially feminist, Marxist, and postcolonial theory).

Publications:

Guest editor, Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 19.1 (Spring 2007) (forthcoming).

Introduction, Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 19.1 (Spring 2007) (forthcoming).  Reprint will appear in Medieval Feminist Forum.

“Trust No Man but Me: Women and Chaucer’s Shorter Poetry” In Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems, edited by Angela Jane Weisl and Tison Pugh, 71 – 75. New York: Modern Language Association, 2007

“The Ends of Enchantment: Colonialism and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48:2 (Summer 2006): 79 – 101.

“History Lessons from the End of Time: Gower and the English Rising of 1381.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 31 (2002): 237 – 55.

“Studied Indifference: Institutional Problems for Feminist Medievalists.” Medieval Feminst Forum 29 (Spring 2000): 8 – 12.

“Feminism and the Academy: A Panel Discussion,” edited by Lynn Arner and Katherine French. Medieval Feminst Forum 29 (Spring 2000): 8 – 32.

Work in Progress:
Remembrances of Things to Come: Gower, Chaucer, Literacy, and 1381 (book).

Email address: arnerlp@pitt.edu