Rosemarie McGerr
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Associate Professor McGerr received her B.A. in English from Yale College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale Graduate School. She teaches courses on the Arthurian tradition in literature and film, medieval allegorical literature, and literature by women in the Middle Ages. Her publications include articles on resistance to closure in medieval literature, gender construction in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the medieval French Bible commentary by Guyart Desmoulins, the relationship of visual and verbal texts in medieval manuscripts, and translation practices in the Middle Ages. She is also the editor of a medieval English dream vision called The Pilgrimage of the Soul (Garland Press). Professor McGerr's most recent book is entitled Chaucer's Open Books: Resistance to Closure in Medieval Discourse (University Press of Florida).
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