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Wollock, Jennifer

Professor

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Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences

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j-goodman@tamu.edu

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0000-0002-1456-9623

overview

My research interests include: chivalric literature and culture, Chaucer, the Bible, Arthurian literature, Robin Hood, Sir Walter Scott, Malory, early Yiddish language and literature and its connections to Middle English, and the ecological role of heritage languages, ballads and theater history.

education and training

Ph.D. in English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) 1981
M.A. in English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) 1977
M.A. in Medieval Studies, University of Toronto - (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 1975
B.A. in Medieval History, Harvard University - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) 1974

selected publications

Academic Articles6

Wollock, J. G. (2022). Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England. ARTHURIANA. (2), 108-110.
Wollock, J. G. (2021). The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature: Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz. SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL. 52(1), 192-195.
Wollock, J (2018). Middle Yiddish and Chaucer's English Considered as Fusion Languages. Leeds Studies in English. 121-133.
Goodman, J. R (1998). Nature as Destiny in 'Troilus and Criseyde.'. Style (DeKalb). 31(3), 413-427.
Goodman, J. R. (1992). European Chivalry in the 1490s. Comparative Civilizations Review. 43-72.

Books5

Goodman, J. R (1998). Chivalry and Exploration, 1298-1630. Boydell & Brewer.
Goodman, J. R (1991). British drama before 1660 a critical history. Twayne Pub.
Goodman, J. R (1988). The legend of Arthur in British and American literature. Twayne Pub.
Goodman, J. R (1987). Malory and William Caxton's Prose Romances of 1485. Taylor & Francis.
Wollock, J. G (). Rethinking Chivalry and Courtly Love. ABC-CLIO.

Chapters1

Wollock, J. G. (2007). Medieval England and Iberia: A Chivalric Relationship. Bullón-Fernández, M. (Eds.), England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, 12th15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Political Exchanges. 11-28. Palgrave Macmillan US.