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The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer (Routledge, 2024) offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) in a global context. This volume provides post-pandemic, twenty-first century readers a way to teach, learn, and write about Chaucer’s works complete with awareness of their reach, their limitations, and occlusions on a global field of culture.

Interviewees:

Craig E. Bertolet is Hollifield Professor of English at Auburn University.

Susan Nakley is Professor and Associate Chair of English at St. Joseph’s University, New York.

Shoshana Adler is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Shazia Jagot is Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Global Literature at the University of York.

Host: Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York, and the author of Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism (Temple University Press). Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com.

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