Contact Information:
467 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
p: 413-545-5516
f: 413-545-3880
jadams@english.umass.edu
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Professor and Director, Oxford Summer Seminar
Jenny Adams, Assistant Professor, holds a PhD and an MA in English Literature from the University of Chicago, and a BA in English Literature and French Language and Literature from UCLA.
She specializes in later medieval literature and has taught Old English, Chaucer, Arthurian Literature as well as several surveys of the medieval period. Her current research focuses on chess in the late Middle Ages, in particular the frequent use of the game as a metaphor for social and political organization. Her work on this subject has also led her to think increasingly about medieval ideas of the political order and the ways government is represented in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
She has articles in Studies in the Age of Chaucer , the Journal of English Germanic Philology , Essays in Medieval Studies , The Chaucer Review , and the Journal of Popular Culture . Her book, Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages (University of Pennsylvania Press) was published in 2006. Her edition of William Caxton's The Game and Playe of the Chesse is forthcoming in the TEAMS Middle English Texts series.
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