William Quinn
  
Professor 
Director of Medieval & Renaissance Studies
(Ph.D. Ohio State University)





Office:  KIMP 327
Phone:  (479)575-4301
wquinn@uark.edu

Teaching Interests: Old & Middle English Literature, Prosody

Selected Publications:
ed. Chaucer's Dream Visions and Short Poems: Basic Readings in Chaucer and His Times (Garland, 1999), Chaucer's Rehersynges: The Performability of the "Legend of Good Women" (Catholic UP, 1994), Jongleur: A Modified Theory of Oral Improvisation and its Effects on the Performability and Transmission of Middle English Romance (University Press of America, 1982), "Chaucer's Problematic 'Priere'" (Studies in the Age of Chaucer, forthcoming), "Chaucer's Presence as Pre-text" (The Chaucer Journal, forthcoming), "Henryson's 'ballet schort'" (Studies in Scottish Literature, 1999), "The Rapes of Chaucer" (The Chaucer Yearbook 5, 1998), "Dante in the Trenches" (Thought 65, 1990), "Chaucer's Janglerye" (Viator, 1987), "The Psychology of St. Erkenwald" (Medium Aevum 53, 1984), "Memory and the Matrix of Unity in The Kingis Quair" (Chaucer Review 15, 1981)