Judith H. Anderson (Email; phone 812-855-3845)
Chancellor's Professor
PhD: Yale University, 1965
MA: Yale University, 1962
AB: Radcliffe College, 1961

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Renaissance/early modern literature, esp. Spenser, Donne, Milton; intellectual and cultural history; theories of texts and language; allegory and metaphor; relations between the Middle ages and the Tudor-Stuart period, especially Chaucer and Langland..

PARTIAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS
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Reading the Allegorical Intertext: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008 (forthcoming)

 

 

 

Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction: First-Year English, Humanities Core Courses, Seminars, co-edited with Christine R. Farris. (Modern Language Association of America, 2007)

 

Translating Investments: Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural Change (Fordham UP, 2005)

 

 

Ed. (with Donald Cheney and David A. Richardson), Spenser's Life and the Subject of Biography (U of Massachusetts P, 1996)

 

 

Words That Matter: Linguistic Perception in Renaissance English (Stanford UP, 1996)

 

Ed. (with Elizabeth Kirk), Will's Vision of Piers Plowman, by William Langland, trans. E. Talbot Donaldson (Norton, 1990)

Biographical Truth: The Representation of Historical Persons in Tudor-Stuart Writing (Yale UP, 1984)

The Growth of a Personal Voice: "Piers Plowman and The Faerie Queene" (Yale UP, 1976)

A sample of recent articles:
"Better a Mischief than an inconvenience: 'The saiyng self' in Spenser's View, or, How many meanings can stand on the head of a proverb?" in Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age' ed. Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman (U of Kentucky P, forthcoming in 1999)

"Translating Investments: The Metaphoricity of Language, 2 Henry IV, and Hamlet," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 40 (1998), 231-67

"Narrative Reflections: Re-envisaging the Poet in The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queene," in Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance, ed. Theresa M. Krier (U of Florida P, 1998), 87-105

PARTIAL LIST OF AWARDS
NEH Fellowships (4)
National Humanities Center Fellowship
Mayers Foundation Fellowship
Dulin Fellowship
Outstanding Woman Scholar Award
Teaching Excellence Recognition Awards