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Faculty ProfileDr. Richard K. Emmerson
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Research and Scholarly Interests:Author of Antichrist in the Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Apocalypticism, Art, and Literature (University of Washington Press, 1981) and co-author (with Ronald B. Herzman) of The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992). Editor of Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama (Modern Language Association, 1990) and co-editor of The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (with Bernard McGinn; Cornell University Press, 1993), Antichrist and Judgment Day: The Middle French Jour du Jugement (with David F. Hult, Pegasus Press, 1998), and Key Figures in Medieval Europe (with Sandra Clayton-Emmerson, Routledge, 2006). In addition has written more than forty scholarly articles and essays studying medieval apocalyptic thought, drama, illustrated manuscripts, and visionary poetry. Current research focuses on word and image relations in later medieval French and English manuscripts, particularly Apocalypses, books of hours, and literary manuscripts. Editor of Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (1999-2006; named Outstanding Editor by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, 2007); and co-editor of Studies in Iconography (1994-2005) and Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion (1989-99). Served as Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America (1999-2006) and at the National Endowment for the Humanities as Program Officer of Summer Seminars for College Teachers (1983-85) and Deputy Director of the Division of Fellowships and Seminars (1987-1990). Has served as President of the Association of Departments of English, Consortium for Teaching the Middle Ages, and Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society and has served on committees for the International Center of Medieval Art, Medieval Academy, Modern Language Association, and New Chaucer Society. Has been awarded grants by National Endowment for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society, Mellon Foundation, and Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Contact Information:
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