RF Yeager

Scholarly Publications:

2011 Approaches to Teaching John Gower’s Poetry. Volume under joint editorship with Brian W. Gastle, in the series “Approaches to Teaching Masterpieces of World Literature.” The Modern Language Association.

2011 “The Tale of Florent,” and “Gower’s Triple Tongue (II): Teaching the Balades,” Approaches to Teaching John Gower’s Poetry, ed. R.F. Yeager and Brian W. Gastle. The Modern Language Association.

2012 “Gower in Winter,” in The Medieval Python: The Persuasive and Purposive Work of Terry Jones, ed. R.F. Yeager and Toshiyuki Takamiya. Palgrave/Macmillan.

2012 “John Gower,” in Écrivains juristes et juristes écrivains du Moyen-Âge au siècle des Lumières, ed. Bruno Meniel (in French). Grenier.

2012 Royal Entertainments: The Poetry of John Gower in the 15th Century English, Portuguese and Castilian Courts, ed. Ana Saéz-Hidalgo and R.F. Yeager, with music by Luis Delgado. CD and accompanying book. The John Gower Society.

2012 The Medieval Python: The Persuasive and Purposive Work of Terry Jones. Volume under joint editorship with Toshiyuki Takamiya. Palgrave/Macmillan.

2012 “Chaucer and Gower on Pain and Suffering: Jepthte’s Daughter in the Bible, the Physician’s Tale, and the Confessio Amantis,” in Knowledge and Pain, ed. Esther Cohen and Leona Toker. Forthcoming, Rodopi.

2012 “Off the Grid for Forty Years: Bringing John Gower into the Classroom,” in Teaching Medieval Literature Off the Grid, a special issue of the journal Pedagogy, ed. Gina Brandolino and Nathanial B. Smith. Forthcoming.

2013 “Gowerian Laughter,” in Middle English Literature in the Twentieth Century: A Modern Medievalist, Derek Brewer, ed. Charlotte Brewer and Barry Windeatt. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press.

2013 “John Gower: Poetry and the ‘Lawyerly Habit of Mind’,” in Theorizing Legal Personhood in the Late Middle Ages, ed. Andreea Boboc and Kathleen Kennedy. Forthcoming, Brill.

2013 Teaching Beowulf in the Twenty-first Century. Volume under joint editorship with Allen J. Frantzen and H.D. Chickering, Forthcoming, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies.

2014 “Art for Art’s Sake: Aesthetic Choices in Gower’s Cinkante Balades,” in The Aesthetic Medievalist: Essays in Honor of H.D. Chickering, ed. John Hill, Bonnie Wheeler and R.F. Yeager. Forthcoming, The Pontifical Institute Press.

2014 The Aesthetic Medievalist: Essays in Honor of H.D. Chickering. Volume under joint editorship with John Hill and Bonnie Wheeler. Forthcoming, The Pontifical Institute Press.

Scholarly Activities:

2011 “Gower’s Animals,” presented at the Medieval Academy of America, Scottsdale, AZ, in April.

2011 “Marital Exegetics: The Theology of Marriage in John Gower’s Traitié pour les amantz marietz,” presented at the conference “Exegetical Readings (II): Medieval Forms of Vernacular Exegesis and Commentary in France and the British Isles (12th-15th centuries): Manuscripts, Texts, and Contexts,” St. Peter’s College, Oxford, in April.

2011 “Le Songe vert, the Spalding Manuscript (BL Add. 34114) and John Gower."  Presented at the Early Book Society in York in July.

2011 “Did Gower Read Alfonso?,” presented at the II International Congress of the John Gower Society, Valladolid, Spain, in July.

2011 “John Gower on Marriage: The French Balades,” presented at SELIM (Spanish Medieval English Literature Association), Huelva, Spain, in October.

2012 Panellist/presenter at a 3-day symposium sponsored by the Liberty Fund, on “Ideas of Freedom in Shakespeare and Machiavelli,” in San Diego, in April.

2012 “Translating Gower,” presented at the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, in May.

2012 Scholarly Research and Creative Activities Award, UWF. Summer.

2012 Society Creator/Composer: II International Congress of the John Gower.

2011-2012  8 performance reviews of the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, Pensacola News Journal.

2012  Book Review of This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff, Pensacola Magazine.