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Elizabeth Bryan

Associate Professor of English

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 302
Phone: (401) 863-3745

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 0210F - S01: Beowulf to Aphra Behn: The Earliest British Literatures -- CRN 14963
  •   ENGL 1360F - S01: Quest, Vision, Diaspora: Medieval Journey Narratives -- CRN 14938
  Sem II:
  •  ENGL 1310T - S01: Chaucer -- CRN 24963
  •  ENGL 2360G - S01: Medieval Manuscript Studies: Palaeography and Interpretation -- CRN 24980

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Degrees
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 1990
M.A. University of Pennsylvania 1981
B.A. summa cum laude University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1975

Research Interests
Medieval literatures in Old and Middle English and paleography. Special interest in chronicles of Britain and their narrative revisions from 1130 to 1600. Also interested in medieval representations of women, and history of the book.

Professional Accomplishments
Bryan is author of Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: the Otho La3amon (1999) and articles on La3amon's Brut and the Middle English prose Brut and on medieval manuscript evidence for reception. Edited a special issue of Arthuriana summer 2000.

Elizabeth Bryan