Andrew Galloway
Professor
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. - University of Santa Cruz
B.A.
Bio
Andrew Galloway has taught at Cornell since receiving his Ph.D. (U. C. Berkeley) in 1991; he directs Cornell’s Medieval Studies Program and Graduate English program. His books include The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 1 (2006), and Medieval Literature and Culture (2006). He has written numerous essays on medieval English poetry and its contexts, from Beowulf to Piers Plowman, Chaucer, and Lydgate, as well as on Latin and French literature, history writing, textual criticism, and, recently, the poetry of William Cullen Bryant. He edited seven volumes of The Yearbook of Langland Studies, and provided translations of Latin for a new edition of Gower. He is currently completing a literary history of Middle English, plus several edited volumes, including a “companion to medieval English culture.”
Research and Teaching Interests
- Medieval English poetry and its contexts (especially 13th through 15th centuries)
- Medieval Latin literature
- Audiences and contexts for medieval poetry
- Textual criticism and the literary and cultural contexts of books
- Medieval historical writing
- Multilingualism in medieval literature and culture
- 19th century American literature
Current Projects
- History of Middle English Literature
- Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture