Studies in Medieval Literature: Chaucer

Instructor: Dr. Lilly Berberyan

Student hours:

In-Person Hours: T/Th, 2:00-4:00PM Wed, 10AM-2PM

Virtual Hours: MW, 10AM-4PM, by appointment

Bookings Page for Appointments

Email: BerberyanL@nsula.edu

Class: Asynchronously, online

Office Location: Kyser 316M

📜 General Information

ENGL 6100 surveys the writings of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Frequently regarded as “the father of the English language,” Chaucer is instrumental to our understandings of the evolutions and transformations of not only the English language, but also English literature. In addition to reading Chaucer’s masterpiece—The Canterbury Tales—we will examine his poetry and prose and scholarship on Chaucer to gain a well-rounded understanding of Chaucer’s impact on English language and literature.

Student Learning Outcomes

Students who complete this course will be able to:

• Develop knowledge of Chaucer’s writings and scholarship related to Chaucer
• Demonstrate orally, in writing, or by some other means a fundamental ability to use some of the techniques and/or methods of literary analysis
• Identify and/ or describe some of the various social, historical, cultural, and/or theoretical contexts in which literary texts have been written and interpreted.
• Apply theoretical texts in the development of textual interpretation and analysis
• Practice and improve advanced research and information literacy skills, applying scholarly research methods to course content; and
• Develop critical arguments that at once represent individual insight and engage effectively with numerous critical voices of systems of scholarship

Required Texts:

The following text is available at the NSULA Bookstore:

• Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Norton Chaucer. Edited by David Lawton et al., W. W. Norton, 2019.

In addition to the texts above, I will post additional texts on Moodle as PDFs.