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David Lawton
Title:Professor of English
Chair, Department of English
Degree:PHD, University of York
MA, Oxford University
BA, Oxford University
Dept:English
Religious Studies
Office:121 Duncker Hall
Mailbox: Full Mailing Address
Phone:(314) 935-5114
E-mail:dalawton@wustl.edu

Courses
FOCUS: Writers as Readers; FOCUS: The Medieval World; Chaucer; The Bible as Literature; Writing and the Representation of Pain

Research Interests
Medieval literatures and culture, Chaucer, literary history and theory, poetics, blasphemy, postcolonial and Australian studies

Selected Publications:

Middle English Alliterative Poetry and its Literary Background, ed. D.A. Lawton (Cambridge, D.S. Brewer, 1982). Includes by D.A. Lawton: "Middle English Alliterative Poetry: An Introduction," 1-10 and 125-129 and "A Note on Primary Sources," 155-159.

Joseph of Arimathea: A Critical Edition (New York: Garland, 1983).

Chaucer's Narrators (Cambridge and Totowa, NJ: Boydell and Brewer, 1985).

Faith, Text and History: The Bible in English (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1991).

The Siege of Jerusalem, Eds. Ralph Hanna and David Lawton. USA: Oxford University Press, 2004.