Thomas Farrell

Professor of English

College Writing, Reading Narrative, Popular Literature, History of the English Language, Medieval Literature, Dante's Commedia (Junior Seminar), Text—Criticism—Theory, Old English, Individual Author, Genre

"His lady grace and the Performance of the Squire," forthcoming in Aesthetics in Old and Middle English Poetry: Essays in Honor of Howell D. Chickering, Jr., Pontifical Institute Press, 2013.
"Editors and Scribes in Two Clerk's Tale Cruxes," forthcoming in The Chaucer Review 47 (2013).
"The Problem of Piers Plowman," Medieval Perspectives 26 (2011): 35-45.
"The Diegetic Achievement of Patrick O'Brian," Papers on Language and Literature 45 (2009): 150-79.
"Hybrid Discourse in the General Prologue Portraits," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 30 (2008): 39-93.
"The Persistence of Donaldson's Memory," Chaucer Review 41 (2007): 286-95.
The Clerk's Tale Chapter in Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales (Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 2002) Vol. I: 101-129 (with Amy W. Goodwin).
Editor, Medieval Voices: Essays on Bakhtin and Medieval Literature (Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996).
"Deconstructing Moriarty: False Armageddon at the Reichenbach," in The Cunning Craft: Original Essays on Detective Fiction and Contemporary Theory, Ronald G. Walker and June M. Frazer, eds. (Macomb, IL: Essays in Literature Series, 1990), 55-67.
"Privacy and the Boundaries of Fabliau in the Miller's Tale," ELH 56 (1989): 773-95.
"The Style of the Clerk's Tale and the Functions of its Glosses," Studies in Philology 86 (1989): 286-309.

Recordings:

"Live At Kalamazoo: The York Fall of Angels, Fall of Man, Abraham and Isaac; The Brome MS Abraham and Isaac," The Chaucer Studio, 2011
"Townley Plays: Live at Kalamazoo" (ICMS Readings 4: 2 CDs), The Chaucer Studio, 2005.
"The Second Shepherds' Play: A Live Reading at Kalamazoo," The Chaucer Studio, 2003.

English Language

Detective fiction

Medieval literature

Chaucer

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