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I began my graduate studies at the University of Chicago, where I received my M.A. in English and Creative Writing in 1972 and was in the Ph.D. program for a year before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania. I received my Ph.D. in English from Penn in 1986. Even before my thesis was finished, I began teaching in Germany, first at the University of Augsburg (1979-1980) and then at the University of Tübingen (1980-1990). I returned to the United States in 1990 to take a position at Trinity University in San Antonio, where I was a professor of English and the director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program until 2007. My teaching interests have centered on the moral tradition, especially in medieval literature, and particularly in Chaucer and other Middle English literature, but also in Latin and a number of the other vernacular languages of Europe besides English. Moreover, my interest in the construction of morality has ranged beyond the Middle Ages to include the history of moral thought up to the present day, especially the concept of the seven deadly sins and the idea of greed for money. You can hear my interview for the broadcast "The Triumph of Avarice" for the radio program "Encounter," on Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), which aired on September 4, 2005, at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/encounter/stories/2005/1458031.htm. My research has been furthered by several fellowships, from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council for Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. I have published a number of books, the most recent being Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (2007), a collection of fourteen of my earlier essays with one new article, and The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities to Individuals, a volume I edited from the best work done by participants in the first NEH Summer Seminar I directed at Darwin College, Cambridge University, in 2004. My current research includes an edition of a late thirteenth-century Latin text used in the preparation of sermons, the Moral Treatise on the Eye, by Peter of Limoges, an early Sorbonne master, and a collaborative history of the concept of curiosity and the limits of inquiry that I am working on with Ed Peters (History, University of Pennsylvania). You can find my complete vita at my web site: http://www.public.asu.edu/~rnewhaus/. |
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