Wetherbee, Winthrop

emeritus faculty in

English (ENGL)

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

research overview

- Chaucer
- Middle English
- Classical and medieval Latin
- Dante
- Old French poetry
- Medieval literary criticitism

individual publications

academic article
- Chaucer and the Tragic Vision of Life. Poetica. 55:139-153. 2001
- Romance and Epic in Chaucer's Knight's Tale. Exemplaria. 2:303-328. 1990
book
- Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1989
- Chaucer and the Poets: An Essay on Troilus and Criseyde. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (CUP). 1984
- Platonism and Poetry in the Twelfth Century . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1972
chapter
- Theme, Prosody and Mimesis in The Book of the Duchess. New York: Routledge. 283-295. 2001
- The Place of Secular Latin Lyric. Medieval Lyric: Genres in Historical Context. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 95-125. 2000
- John Gower. The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 589-609. 1999
- Dante and the Poetics of Troilus and Criseyde. Critical Essays on Geoffrey Chaucer. New York: G.K. Hall. 243-266. 1998
- History and Romance in Boccaccio's Teseida. Studi sul Boccaccio. 173-184. 1992
- Latin Structure and Vernacular Space: Chaucer, Gower and the Boethian Tradition. ELS Monograph Series. Victoria, B.C.: English Literary Studies, University of Victoria. 7-35. 1991

selected publications listing

- Platonism and Poetry in the Twelfth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972)
- Bernardus Silvestris, Cosmographia (translation, with extensive introduction and notes) (New York, Columbia University Press, 1973; paperback, 1990)
- Chaucer and the Poets. An Essay on "Troilus and Criseyde" (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984)
- Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
- Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius (translation with introduction and notes) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
- "Dante and the Thebaid of Statius," in Lectura Dantis Newberryana, eds. Paolo Cherchi, Anthony Mastrobuono (Chicago: Northwestern, 1988), pp. 71-92
- "Constance and the World in Chaucer and Gower," in John Gower: Recent Readings, ed. R.F. Yeager (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1989), pp. 65-93
- "Romance and Epic in Chaucer's Knight's Tale," Exemplaria 2 (1990), pp. 303-28
- "The Context of the Monk's Tale," in Language and Style in English Literature: Essays in Honor of Michio Masui, ed. Michio Kawai (Tokyo, 1991), pp. 159-77
- "Latin Structure and Vernacular Space: Chaucer, Gower and the Boethian Tradition," in Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutuality, Exchange, ed. R.F. Yeager (Victoria: ELS Monograph Series 51, 1991), pp. 7-35.
- "History and Romance in Boccaccio's Teseida," Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-92), pp. 173-84.
- "The Owl and the Nightingale on Love," Medievalia 15 (1993, for 1989), pp. 165-82
- "Chivalry under Siege in Ricardian Romance," in The Medieval City under Siege, eds. Ivy Corfis and Michael Wolfe (University Park: Penn. State University Press, 1994), pp. 207-23
- "Dante and the Poetics of Troilus and Criseyde," in Critical Essays on Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Thomas C. Stillinger (New York: G. K. Hall, 1998), pp. 243-66
- Chapter, "John Gower," in The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature, ed. David Wallace (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999), pp. 589-609
- "The Place of Secular Latin Lyric," in Medieval Lyric: Genres in Historical Context, ed. William D. Paden (Urbana:, University of Illinois Press, 2000), pp. 95-125
- "Philosophy, Comentary, and Mythic Narrative in Twelfth-Century France," in Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period, ed. Jon Whitman (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000), pp. 211-229
- Chapter, "Dante Alighieri," in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (on line: http://plato.stanford.edu/)
- "Theme, Prosody and Mimesis in The Book of the Duchess," in The Art of Chaucer's Verse, ed. Alan T. Gaylord (New York and London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 283-95
- "Chaucer and the Tragic Vision of Life," Poetica 55 (2001), pp. 139-53

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current professional activities

- University Service:
  - Assistant Chair, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Cornell, 1968-69
  - Assistant Chair, English 1973-74
  - Director, Medieval Studies Program 1973-74
  - Director, Medieval Studies Program, Cornell 1986-89
  - Chair, English, Cornell, 1990-96
  - Editorial Board, Cornell University Press 1986-90, 1997-99
- Professional Service:
  - Editorial Advisory Board, PMLA, 1982-86
  - Trustee, New Chaucer Society, 1990-92
  - President, New Chaucer Society, 2002-2004
  - Coordinator of College Program, Auburn Correctional Facilty, 1997-

education and training

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1967
M.A., University of Leeds 1962
B.A., Harvard University 1960

awards and honors

Elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, 2002
Received Certificate of Appreciation from Logan Jaycees, Auburn Correctional Facility, 2001
Named Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, 1989
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1987
Society for the Humanities Fellowship, 1978
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1974
ACLS Fellowship, 1970

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Wetherbee, Winthrop

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emeritus faculty in

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

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research overview

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individual publications

academic article

book

chapter

selected publications listing

featured in archived article

Service

current professional activities

Background

education and training

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