Dr. Gale Sigal
Professor of English
Contact
On Leave
Email: sigal@wfu.edu
Degrees
PhD Graduate Center, City University of New York
MA Fordham
BA City College of New York
Areas of Interest
- Medieval Poetry
- The Legend of Arthur
- Victorian Medievalism
- Chaucer
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
ENG 310/HUM 320 Perspectives on the Middle Ages: Medieval Constructs of Gender, Race, and Class
ENG 712 Studies in Medieval Literature
ENG 315 Chaucer
FYS The Chivalric Spirit
ENG 160 Introduction to British Literature
ENG 312 Medieval Poetry: Classics of the High Middle Ages
Selected Publications
Erotic Dawn-songs of the Middle Ages: Voicing the Lyric Lady. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.
Voices in Translation: The Authority of 'Olde Bookes' in Medieval Literature. With Deborah Sinnreich-Levi. New York: AMS Press, 1992.
Assistant Editor, The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume II (1881-1888), Ed. Norman Kelvin. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. Research Assistant, Volume I (1848-1880). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
"Reis glorios: A Commentary." In Teaching Medieval Lyric with Modern Technology: An NEH Project (CD-Rom). Margaret Switten, Director, Mount Holyoke College, 2000.
"Troubadours, Trouvères and Trobairitz." In Dictionary of Literary Biography: The Literature of the French and Occitan Middle Ages. Eds., Ian Laurie and Deborah Sinnreich-Levi. Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc., Spring 1999.
A more extensive publication list is available.