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All the tweets (in chronological order) from the Biennial London Chaucer Conference, held at Senate House Library, 10-11 July 2015. [Note: t...

Twitter's popular hashtag, #thatawkwardmomentwhen gains another contribution when Criseyde tweets, "I just realized that my uncle i...

University of Colorado's Thomas Napierkowski cuts an impressive figure that is every inch an English professor. He is tall and thin, com...

In The Canterbury Tales, American illustrator Seymour Chwast reimagines Chaucer’s poetic survey of medieval England. And, true to Chaucer...

A previously unknown poem dating from the mid-1500s has been discovered pasted into a rare edition of works by Geoffrey Chaucer. The erotic-...

Like Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Mary Malloy is an adventurous woman. She has hiked across England in the footsteps of the "Canterbury ...

Researchers from the universities of York, Oxford and Sheffield have created a new website that aims to identifying the scribes who made the...

A dozen years ago, Alf Seegert was into playing solo video games, and his wife-to-be was feeling left out. "Can't we play something...

Tim Stinson isn’t a scientist. But that hasn’t stopped him from working with DNA. The English literature professor at N.C. State Universit...

An up and coming celebrity walks among the Sonoma State University staff. Portions of literature professor Brantley Bryant's wildly popu...

A previously unknown early 19th-century edition of The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer has been identified by University of Otago senior...

Sarah Stanbury, English professor at the College of the Holy Cross, has recently been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a prestigious annual ...

Peter W. Travis, the Henry Winkley Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature at Dartmouth College, is the winner the 2009...

Experts from The University of Manchester's John Rylands Library are to spend four days at a beautiful seventeenth century mansion to ca...