Five College Medieval Studies Seminar
Fall Events, 2009

Tuesday, September 29.

Chaucer and Speech

Dr. Amanda Holton
Department of English, Oxford University

Time: 4:30 p.m.
Seelye Hall, Smith College

Amanda Holton teaches Old and Middle English and the History, Use and Theory of the English Language. Her main research interests lie in Chaucer, comparative literature, poetics, and the lyric. Her book The Sources of Chaucer’s Poetics was published by Ashgate in 2008, and she is currently working on a monograph on rhyme and love in the medieval and early Renaissance lyric.