Arizona State University
Department of English
Box 870302
Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
480.965.3168
Main Office Location:
G. Homer Durham Language and Literature Building - LL 542
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Robert S. Sturges
Professor,
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Brown University
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Office: LL 204
Phone: 480-965-4861
E-mail: robert.sturges@asu.edu |
 I'm a Professor of English at ASU, and this year I’m also the Interim director of Graduate Studies for the English Department. I've taught at M.I.T., at Wesleyan University, and at the University of New Orleans. My Ph.D., in Comparative Literature, is from Brown University.
My teaching and research interests include medieval literature (especially Chaucer), the Bible as literature, critical theory, gender studies, lesbian/gay/queer studies, and opera. I've published three books: Medieval Interpretation: Models of Reading in Literary Narratve, 1100-1500 (1991); Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse (2000); and Dialogue and Deviance: Male-Male Desire in the Dialogue Genre (Plato to Aelred, Plato to Sade, Plato to the Postmodern) (2005). Along with my collaborator in the UK, Elizabeth Urquhart, I'm also working on an edition of a Middle English devotional work, the Middle English Pseudo-Augustinian Soliloquies, a text I was the first to identify correctly. My most recent essays are "The Pardoner in Canterbury: Gender, Class, and Urban Space in the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn" (in the Summer, 2006 issue of College Literature); “‘Wols-hede and outhorne’: The Ban, Bare Life, and Power in the Passion Plays,” in Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature (NY: Palgrave, 2006). I have several essays forthcoming on the political theories of Girogio Agamben and their relevance to medieval literature.
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