Robert Epstein

Associate Professor of English

Fairfield University

 

Published scholarship:

 

Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Medieval English Literature: Essays for John V. Fleming. Edited by Robert Epstein and William Robins. University of Toronto Press, 2010.

“Sacred Commerce: Chaucer’s Friar and the Spirit of Money,” in Sacred and Profane in Chaucer and Medieval English Literature, University of Toronto Press, 2010.

“Students’ ‘Fredom’ and the Franklin’s Tale.” In Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Edited by Frank Grady and Peter Travis. Forthcoming from the Modern Language Association.

“‘Fer in the north; I kan nat telle where’: Dialect, Regionalism, and Philologism.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 30 (2008).

“‘With many a florin he the hewes boghte’: Ekphrasis and Symbolic Violence in the Knight’s Tale.” Philological Quarterly 85 (2006).

“Eating Their Words: Food and Text in the Coronation Banquet of Henry VI.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36:2 (Spring 2006).

“London, Southwark, Westminster: Gower’s Urban Contexts.” A Companion to Gower. Edited by Siân Echard. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004.

“Prisoners of Reflection: The Fifteenth-Century Poetry of Exile and Imprisonment.” Exemplaria 15:1 (2003).

“Lydgate’s Mummings and the Aristocratic Resistance to Drama.” Comparative Drama 36 (2003).

“Literal Opposition: Deconstruction, History, and Lancaster.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 44:1 (2002).

“Chaucer's Scogan and Scogan's Chaucer.” Studies in Philology XCVI (1999).

 

Reviews:

Tison Pugh and Marcia Smith Marzec, eds., Men and Masculinities in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, forthcoming in Arthuriana.

Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown, Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century. Speculum 84 (2009).

 

Published fiction:

 

"Dessert at the Banquet." Forthcoming in The Indiana Review 34.1 (Winter 2012).

"Wooden Nickels." SFWP Journal. November 2010.

"What You Eat." Alimentum: The Literature of Food Issue 12 (Summer 2011).

"Comments on a Book Reproducing an Ancient Bas-Relief Sculpture." Gargoyle 56 (2010).

"The Walls of Troy." Dogwood Magazine 4 (2004).