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Dr. Gale Sigal
Professor of English

Education

PhD, Graduate Center, City University of New York
MA, Fordham
BA, City College of New York

Area(s) of Specialty

Medieval Poetry
The Legend of Arthur
Victorian Medievalism
Chaucer

Contact Information

Office: C208 Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-5388
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

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.

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