Bobby Meyer-Lee
Assistant Professor of English
Associate Chair of Curriculum
Education
PhD Yale University, English, 2001
MA New York University, English, 1992
BA Williams College, Computer Science, 1986
Interests
Medieval English literature, culture, history, manuscripts
Early modern English literature
History of the English language and linguistics
Literary theory
Major Publications
Book:
Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt, Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback edition, 2009
Articles:
- "The Vatic Penitent: John Audelay’s Self-Representation,” in My Wyl and My Wrytyng: Essays on John the Blind Audelay, ed. Susanna Fein, Medieval Institute Publications, 2009
- "Manuscript Studies, Literary Value, and the Object of Chaucer Studies,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 30, 2008
- "A Defense of Ornament: The Supplement of Literary Language and Julia Spicher Kasdorf’s ‘Catholics’ and ‘Mennonites,’” Mennonite Quarterly Review 82.2, 2008
- "Lydgate’s Laureate Pose,” in John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England, ed. Larry Scanlon and James Simpson. University of Notre Dame Press, 2006
- "Laureates and Beggars in Fifteenth-Century English Poetry: The Case of George Ashby,” Speculum 79.3, 2004
- "Hoccleve and the Apprehension of Money,” Exemplaria 13.1, 2001
- "The Allure of the Phantom Popet,” The Chaucer Newsletter 22.2, 2000
Courses at IU South Bend
L501 Professional Literary Scholarship (the Chaucer version)
G660 Stylistics
D600/G301 History of the English Language
G552/G302 The Structure of Modern English
L305 Chaucer
E301 Literatures in English to 1600
T191 Heroes in Ancient and Medieval World Literature
T190 Imagining King Arthur
W131 Elementary Composition
Committees
Committee on library affairs
English dept. committee on the major
English dept. graduate studies committee
English dept. steering committee
Selected Awards
Medieval Academy Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize, 2003, for “Hoccleve and the Apprehension of Money”
New Chaucer Society Congress essay contest, 2000, for “The Allure of the Phantom Popet”
