Townsend,
David
Email:
david.townsend@utoronto.ca
Phone:
416-978-6776
Fax:
416-978-8294
Department:
English/Center for Mediaeval Studies
Status:
Faculty
Courses taught:
ENG 1094 Discourse of Vernacular Spirituality
MST 1000 Introductory Medieval Latin
Research interests:
Old and Middle English; Medieval ecphrasis and memory techniques; religious culture in fifteenth-century Norwich; verse hagiography of the High Middle Ages; editing and interpreting texts, esp. where close philological analysis can be combined with tools of contemporary critical theory in thematics of cultural studies.
Languages:
Mediaeval Latin; Old, Middle English