Joseph Taylor

Articles/Essays 

• “Medieval Ruin Consciousness: Saint Erkenwald and the Politics of Decay,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 47 (2025): 135-65.

• "When a stranger sojourns with you in your land": Loving the Refugee as Neighbor in the Canterbury Tales and Refugee Tales," Exemplaria 32, no. 3 (2020): 248-68. 

• "Quiet Riot: A Politics of Noise in the Canterbury Tales." Chaucer Review 52.2 (2018): 178-93.

• "Arthurian Biopolitics: Sovereignty and Ecology in Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 59.2 (2017): 182-208. (winner of Tony Hilfer Prize for best essay in TSLL 2017)

• with Randy P. Schiff, "Introduction: The Politics of Ecology" in The Politics of Ecology (2016), 1-30.

• "Sovereign Ecologies: Managing the King's Bodies in Anglo-Norman Historiography" in The Politics of Ecology (2016), 179-209.

• "Sovereignty, Oath, and the Profane Life in the Avowing of Arthur," Exemplaria 25.1 (2013): 36-58.

• ““Me longeth sore to Bernysdale”: Centralization, Resistance and the Bare Life of the Greenwood in A Gest of Robyn Hode,” Modern Philology 110.3 (2013): 313-339.

• “Chaucer’s Uncanny Regionalism: Rereading the North in the Reeve’s Tale,” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 109.4 (2010): 468-489.

Book Reviews

• Review of Emily Dolmans. Writing Regional Identities in Medieval England: From “Gesta Herwardi” to “Richard Coer de Lyon.” Woodbridge, UK: D. S. Brewer, 2020. Speculum 97.4 (2022): 1183-1185.

• Review of Shawn Normandin. Chaucerian Ecopoetics: Deconstructing Anthropocentrism in the CanterburyTales. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Studies in the Age of Chaucer 41 (2020): 391-95.

• Review of Susan Nakley. Living in the Future: Sovereignty and Internationalism in the Canterbury Tales. University of Michigan Press, 2017. Arthuriana 28.3 (2018): 117-18.

• Review of Lynn Staley. The Island Garden: England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell. University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. Journal of English and  Germanic Philology 113.3 (2014): 382-385.

• Review of Timothy S. Jones, Outlawry in Medieval Literature. New York: Palgrave, 2010. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 112.2 (2013): 221-224.

• Review of Neil Cartlidge, ed. Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance. Cambridge: D. S.Brewer, 2012. The Medieval Review (2012)  

Current Projects:

• “‘Where the Unsaid Goes Unspoken’: Translation As a Matter of Life and Death in the Legend of Good Women and Refugee Tales” (article in preparation)

• Fluid Spaces: A Politics of Ruins in Medieval Britain (book project in preparation)

Courses 

• EH 655 (Graduate Seminar in Medieval Literature); EH 450-550 (The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer); EH 451-551 (Arthurian Romance); EH 408-508 (History of the English Language); EH 335 (Survey of British Literature); EH 207 and 209 (Readings in Literature and Culture: Ancient Times to the Age of Discovery); EH 105 (Honors First-Year Writing); EH 101 and 102 (First-Year Writing)