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Professor
Professor of English
and Comparative Literature
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities
Chair, Comparative Literature, 1997 - 2000
B.A., Wesleyan
University, 1976
B.A., Oxford University, 1978
M.A., Oxford University, 1986
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1981
At Stanford Since 1990
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Special Interests: Old and Middle English literature;
Early Tudor literary culture; medieval and modern literary theory; textual
criticism and the history of scholarship; children's literature
Profile: Seth Lerer
joined the Stanford faculty as Professor of English in 1990, received a joint
appointment in Comparative Literature in 1996, and served as Chair of the
Department of Comparative Literature in 1997. His research interests include
medieval and Renaissance studies, comparative philology, the history of
scholarship, and children's literature. In 1993, he received the Hoagland
Prize for Undergraduate Teaching at Stanford, and he has held fellowships
from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities,
and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 1996, he was the Hurst
Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published over sixty
articles and reviews in journals such as Speculum, Viator,
Modern Language Quarterly, ELH, the Huntington Library
Quarterly, the Stanford French Review, the Times Literary
Supplement, Modern Philology, Raritan, and the Yale Review, and in
many collections. He is the author of four books: Boethius
and Dialogue (Princeton, 1985); Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Nebraska, 1991); Chaucer and His Readers
(Princeton, 1993, paperback 1996; awarded the Beatrice White Prize of the
English Association of Great Britain); and Courtly Letters in the Age of
Henry VIII (Cambridge, 1997). In addition, he has edited two collections of
essays: Literary History and the Challenge of Philology (Stanford,
1996), and Reading from the Margins (The Huntington Library, 1996).
His current book projects include a history of scholarship, and anthology of
medieval literature, and a study of children's literature
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