David Wallace is a British scholar of

medieval literature Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of t ...

and

Judith Rodin Judith Rodin (born Judith Seitz, September 9, 1944) is an American research psychologist, executive, university president, and global thought-leader. She served as the 12th president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 2005 to 2017. From 1994 to 2 ...

Professor of English, who teaches in the USA

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. After undergraduate study at the

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, he completed a Ph.D. in 1983 at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. From 2018 to 2019, he served a one-year term as President of the Medieval Academy of America. In 2019, he was awarded the

Sir Israel Gollancz Prize Sir Israel Gollancz Prize is awarded biannually by the British Academy in honour of Israel Gollancz, a founder member and its first secretary, since 1924. Originally named "Biennial Prize for English Literature" and renamed after Gollancz's death ...

by the

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"for his lifetime contribution into the study of Chaucer and Medieval English literature".

Books

''Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Introduction''
(2017) * ''The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing'' (co-editor with

Carolyn Dinshaw Carolyn Dinshaw is an American academic and author, who has specialised in issues of gender and sexuality in the medieval context. Education and career Dinshaw was born to an Indian father, Dudley Dinshaw, a Parsi from Lucknow, and an American mot ...

; 2003) * ''The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature'' (editor; 1999)
''Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy''
(1997)

References

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