Anne Middleton, Emeritus

Office: 477 Wheeler

Phone: 510 642-2323

Email: medieval@socrates.berkeley.edu

Areas of Interest

English Literature to 1500.

Current Research

Professor Middleton works on Chaucer, Piers Plowman, alliterative traditions, allegory, and literary history.

Professional Statement

Anne Middleton, the Florence Green Bixby Professor of English,teaches medieval literature, chiefly of the fourteenth century. Her research interests include early literary history, alliterative styles and forms, vernacular poetics, and the later medieval literary uses of Latin academic discourses. She has held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities (the latter both for individual and group research), as well as a UC President's Fellowship. Her recent publications, chiefly on the works of Chaucer and Langland, have examined authorial self-representation, and accounts of literary production as social and individual cultural goods, as well as the formation of literary careers among those employed in ecclesiastical and royal writing offices. Her current work includes a study of the literary cultures of the reign of Edward III, and a commentary on Piers Plowman.

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