Galloway, Andrew Scott

Professor

research

research and scholarship focus

  • Old and Middle English (at present especially Chaucer, Langland, Gower)
  • Medieval history writing
  • Intellectual communities and the sociology of knowledge
  • Visions of women and women's writings
  • Paleography and codicology

affiliations

head of

faculty appointment in

administrative appointment

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

service

current professional activities

  • Director, Medieval Studies Program, 2005-2006, 2007-
  • Director, Graduate English Studies, 2008-

  • English Department, Cornell:

    • Chair, search committee (2004-05)
    • Appointments Committee, (1997, 2001, 2003, 2004)
    • Guilford Prize Committee (1999-2001; chair, 2001)
    • Post-A exam graduate seminar (1999, 2000)
    • Director. Honors Program (1996-97)
    • Graduate Placement Officer (1995-96)
    • Honors Committee (1994-06)

  • Arts College, Cornell:

    • Chair, search committee for a position in Medieval Studies (2004-05, the first position so defined at Cornell)
    • Academic Integrity Board (2003-2006); co-chair (2008-  )
    • Faculty Senate (2003-04)
    • Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Admissions (1991-93)
    • Academic Records Committee (1995-2000)

  • Editorial Boards and Consultant Positions:

    • Editorial Board, The Yearbook of Langland Studies, 2004-
    • Editorial Board, Glossator, 2007-
    • Editorial Board, Literature Compass, 2005-
    • Consultant, Middle English Texts Series
    • The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS), 2003-
    • Editorial Board, Cornell University Press, 1999-2002
    • Editorial Board, Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture (Stanford University Press), 1999-2002 (until series ended

  • Council Memberships:

    • Executive Committee of the Division on Chaucer, Modern Language Association of America, 2005-
    • Humanities Council, Cornell University, 2000-2004, co-chair, 2003
    • Representative, Division on Middle English Language and Literature, excluding Chaucer, for the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association, 1994-1996.

background

educational background

  • University of California, Berkeley, English and Medieval Studies, Ph.D., 1991
  • University of California, Santa Cruz, non-matriculating enrollment in Classics, equiv. to B.A., 1983
  • University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A., 1980

professional background

  • University of California, Irvine, 1998, Visiting Associate Professor
  • University of California, Berkeley, 1985-89, Graduate Student Instructor

awards and distinctions

  • Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 2009
  • The John Hurt Fisher Award for "Significant Contribution to the Field of Gower Studies," 2009
  • Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Award for Excellence in Advising, 2005
  • Spencer Prize, (won jointly with a student in a first-year writing seminar for preparatory work for an essay and a sequence of revisions), Spring 2002
  • Cornell University Certificate of Recognition as Outstanding Educator (for having most influenced a Merrill Presidential Scholar, 2001
  • Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 2000-2001
  • Fellow, The Robert and Helen Appel Fellowship for Humanists and Social Scientists, 1997
  • Fellow, The Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine, 1994
  • Henry Nash Smith Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, 1989-90 (the first so designated)

featured in

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

Books:
  • The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume One: C Prologue-Passus 4; B Prologue-Passus 4; A Prologue-Passus 4.   Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
  • Medieval Literature and Culture (Introduction to British Literature and Culture). London: Continuum Press, 2006.
  • Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honor of Winthrop Wetherbee, ed. Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
  • Gower’s Confessio Amantis.  Ed. Russell Peck, with Latin Translations by Andrew Galloway.  3 vols. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2000-2005 (vol. 1 revd. 2006).
  • The Yearbook of Langland Studies: ed. Andrew Galloway, five volumes, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 (1999-2003); ed. J. A. Alford and Andrew Galloway, two volumes, 11, 12 (1997, 1998).
Essays, Chapters, and Encyclopedia Entries:
  • “Reassessing Gower’s Dream-Visions.”  For a volume on Gower, ed. Elisabeth Dutton. Westfield Press, forthcoming.
  • “William Cullen Bryant’s American Antiquities: Medievalism, Miscegenation, and Race in The Prairies.”  For a volume on “American Medievalism,” ed. Gordon Hutner, forthcoming.
  • “Alliterative Poetry in Old Jerusalem: The Siege of Jerusalem and its Sources.” In Medieval Alliterative Poetry: Essays in Honour of Thorlac Turville-Petre, ed. J.A. Burrow & Hoyt N. Duggan.  Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009, forthcoming.
  • “Visions and Visionaries.” In The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature, ed. Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • “Favent [Fovent], Thomas”; “Whethamsted, John”; “The Whalley Chronicle.” Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle.  Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.
  • “Gower’s Confessio Amantis, the Prick of Conscience, and the History of the Latin Gloss in Early English Literature.”  In John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts.  Ed. Malte Urban.  Turnhout: Brepols, forthcoming.
  • “The Past.” In A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature: 1100-1500. Ed. Marilyn Corrie.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.  Pp. 77-96.
  • “The Economy of Need in Late Medieval English Literature.”  Viator 40 (2009), 309-31.
  • “The School of Wetherbee.”  In Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honor of Winthrop Wetherbee, ed. Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.  Pp. 2-24.
  • “John Lydgate and the Origins of Vernacular Humanism.” JEGP 107 (2008), 445-471.
  • “Chaucer’s Quarrel with Gower, and the Origins of Bourgeois Didacticism in Fourteenth-Century London Poetry.”  In Calliope’s Classroom: Didactic Poetry from Antiquity to the Renaissance.  Ed. Annette Harder, Geritt Reinink, and Alasdair MacDonald. Leuven, Paris, and Dudley, Virginia: Peeters, 2007.  Pp. 245-68.
  •  “The Peterborough Chronicle and the Invention of ‘Holding Court’ in Twelfth Century England.” Source of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honor of Thomas D. Hill. Ed. Charles D. Wright, Frederick M. Biggs, and Thomas N. Hall.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.  Pp. 293-310.
  • “Middle English as a Foreign Language, to ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ (Gower, Langland, and the Author of The Life of St. Margaret).” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 14 (2007): 89-102.
  • “Medieval History and Chronicle.”  The Encyclopedia of British Literature.  Gen. ed. David Scott Kastan.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • “Layamon.”  The Encyclopedia of British Literature.  Gen. ed. David Scott Kastan.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • “Laƺamon’s Gift.”  PMLA 121 (2006): 717-34.
  • “Middle English Prologues.”  Readings in Medieval Texts: Interpreting Old and Middle English Literature.  Ed. Elaine Treharne and David Johnson.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.  Pp. 288-305.
  •  “Reading Piers Plowman in the Fifteenth and the Twenty-First Centuries: Notes on Manuscripts F and W in the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive.”  Journal of English and Germanic Philology 103 (2004): 232-52.
  • “Langland Lives.”  The Colwall Clock and Coddington Recorder (Malvern, United Kingdom) 24:4 (September 2003): 11-12.
  • “Latin England.”  Imagining a Medieval English Community.  Ed. Kathryn Lavezzo.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.  Pp. 41-95.
  • “The Literature of 1388 and the Politics of Pity in Gower’s Confessio Amantis.”  The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England.  Ed. Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.  Pp. 67-104.
  • “History or Narration Concerning the Manner and Form of the Miraculous Parliament at Westminster in the Year 1386, in the Tenth Year of the Reign of King Richard the Second after the Conquest, Declared by Thomas Favent, Clerk.”  Translation and edition. The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England.  Ed. Emily Steiner and Candace Barrington.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.  Pp. 231-52. 
  • “Piers Plowman and the Subject of the Law.”  The Yearbook of Langland Studies 15 (2001): 117-28.
  • “Making History Legal: Piers Plowman and the Rebels of Fourteenth-Century England.”  William Langland’s Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays.  Ed. Kathleen Hewett-Smith.  New York and London: Routledge Press, 2001. Pp. 7-39.
  • “Authority.”  Blackwell Companion to Chaucer.  Ed. Peter Brown.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.  Pp. 23-39.
  • “Writing History in England.”  In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature.  Ed. David Wallace.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999; reprint with addenda, 2002.  Pp. 255-83.
  • “Uncharacterizable Entities: The Poetics of Middle English Scribal Culture and the Definitive Piers Plowman.”  Studies in Bibliography 52 (1999): 59-87.
  • “Word-Play and Political Satire: Solving the Riddle of the Text of Jezebel.”  Medium Ævum 68 (1999): 189-208.
  • “Intellectual Pregnancy, Metaphysical Femininity, and the Social Doctrine of the Trinity in Piers Plowman.”  The Yearbook of Langland Studies 12 (1998): 117-52.
  • “Private Selves and the Intellectual Marketplace in Late Fourteenth-Century England: The Case of the Two Usks.”  New Literary History, special issue: “Medieval Studies,” 28 (Spring 1997, no. 2): 291-318.
  • “Chaucer’s Former Age and the Fourteenth-Century Anthropology of Craft: The Social Logic of a Premodernist Lyric.”  ELH 63 (1996): 535-53. 
  • “The Rhetoric of Riddling in Late-Medieval England: The ‘Oxford’ Riddles, the Secretum philosophorum, and the Riddles in Piers Plowman.”  Speculum 70 (1995): 68-105.
  • “A Fifteenth-Century Confession Sermon on ‘Unkyndeness’ (CUL MS Gg 6.26) and Its Literary Parallels and Parodies.”  Traditio 49 (1994): 259-69.
  • “The Making of a Social Ethic in Late-Medieval England: From Gratitudo to ‘Kyndenesse.’”  Journal of the History of Ideas 55 (1994): 365-83. 
  • “Dream Theory in The Dream of the Rood and The Wanderer.”  Review of English Studies 45 (1994): 475-85.
  • “Chaucer’s Legend of Lucrece and the Critique of Ideology in Fourteenth-Century England.”  ELH 60 (1993): 813-32.
  • “Gower in His Most Learned Role and the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381.”  Mediaevalia 16 (1993 for 1990): 329-47.
  • “Marriage Sermons, Polemical Sermons and the Wife of Bath’s Prologue: A Generic Excursus.”  Studies in the Age of Chaucer 14 (1992): 3-30.
  • “Piers Plowman and the Schools.”  The Yearbook of Langland Studies 6 (1992): 89-107.
  • “Beowulf and the Varieties of Choice.”  PMLA 105 (1990): 197-208.
  • “On the Medieval and Post-Medieval Collation of St. Dunstan’s ‘Aethicus’ (Leiden, Rijksuniv. Bibl. Scaliger 69).”  Scriptorium 43 (1989): 106-11.
  • “1 Peter and The Seafarer.”  English Language Notes 25 (1988): 1-10.
  • “Dr. Faustus and the Charter of Christ.”  Notes and Queries n.s. 35 (1988): 36-38.
  • “Two Notes on Langland’s Cato: Piers Plowman B i.88-91; iv.20-23.”  English Language Notes 35 (1987): 9-13.
  • “Lucretius’ Materialist Poetics: Epicurus and the ‘Flawed’ Consolatio of Book 3.”  Ramus 15 (1986): 52-73.
  • Entries in The Chaucer Encyclopedia: “Clothing and Fashion”; “Avisioun.”  Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, supposedly forthcoming.
  • Introductions, Longer Editorial Columns, and Review Articles:
  • “The Trouble with Middle English.”  Section Editor’s column.  Compass 1 (2004), http://www.literature-compass.com/section.asp?section=1
  • “On Charles Muscatine and his Medieval Literature, Style, and Culture” (review article).  International Journal of the Classical Tradition 8 (2001/2002): 633-39.
  • “Re-imagining Late Medieval English Poetry.”  Nottingham Medieval Studies 45 (2001): 246-53.
  • “Reception and its Discontents” (forward to special issue).  The Yearbook of Langland Studies 13 (1999): 1-7.
  • “Introduction: Special Section on Gender and Piers Plowman.”  The Yearbook of Langland Studies 12 (1998): 1-4.
  • “Response: Langland’s Learning.”  The Yearbook of Langland Studies 9 (1995): 10-15.
  • “Narratology and the Pursuit of Context: Three Recent Studies of Medieval Narrative.”  Medievalia et Humanistica 21 (1994): 111-26.
  • “Reply to Edgar Knowlton and Zacharias P. Thundy.”  PMLA 106 [Forum] (1991): 311-12.         

contact

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asg6@cornell.edu