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Warren Ginsberg

Professor of English
Emeritus, Philip H. Knight Professor of Humanities Comparative Literature Program Faculty
Comparative Literature, English, Medieval Studies
warren@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3958
Office: 257 PLC, 1286 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: I am retired. You can contact me by email.
Research Interests: I am especially interested in examining the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of cross-cultural translation in Chaucer's works.
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Education

1967-1971 SUNY at Stony Brook, MA 1971 English 

1971-1975 Yale University, PhD 1975 Medieval Studies

Statement

I am especially interested in examining the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of cross-cultural translation in Middle English and medieval Italian works.

Publications

Publications include Chaucer's Italian Tradition (University of Michigan Press, 2002); Dante's Aesthetics of Being (University of Michigan Press, 1999); The Cast of Character: The Representation of Personality in Ancient and Medieval Literature (University of Toronto Press, 1983); editor, "Wynnere and Wastoure and the Parlement of the Thre Ages," Middle English Texts Series, 1992; articles in various journals and collections.