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Associate Professor
Homepage: http://www.individual.utoronto.ca/gillespie/
Teaching and Research Interests
Old English, Middle English, and Renaissance Literature; History of the Book (manuscript and print) – faculty member, Centre for Medieval Studies; Book History and Print Culture Programme.
Degrees
BA (Hons), Victoria University of Wellington; MSt, MA, DPhil, University of Oxford.
Publications
Print Culture and the Medieval Author: Chaucer, Lydgate, and Their Books,
1473-1557. Oxford UP, 2006.
Editor. Manuscript, Print, and Early Tudor Literature. Special number of
Huntington Library Quarterly 67.2 (2004).
Co-editor with Ian Gadd. John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English
Past. British Library, 2004.
I have published essays on medieval manuscripts, early printing, and literature of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries – recently:
With Joseph A. Dane. “The Myth of the Cheap Quarto.” Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of
Meaning. Ed. John N. King. Cambridge UP. Forthcoming.
“Lydgate, Stow, and the After Lives of St Edmund.” St Edmund, King and Martyr: New Readings in the Medieval
Cult. Ed. Anthony Bale. Boydell and Brewer, 2009. 163-85.
“William Caxton and the Invention of the Printed Book.” The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature,
1485-1603. Ed. Cathy Shrank and Mike Pincombe. Oxford UP, 2009. 21-36.
“Production and Dissemination.” A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature:
1100-1500. Ed. M. Corrie. Blackwell, 2009. 99-119.
“Reading Chaucer’s Words to Adam.” Chaucer Review 42.3 (2008): 269-83.
“Analytical Survey 9: The History of the Book.” New Medieval Literatures
9 (2007): 245-86.
“Books.” Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Middle
English. Ed. Paul Strohm. Oxford UP, 2007. 86-103.
Current Research
I am currently completing a book-length study of the new vernacular language and new economy for book production in England in the Middle Ages, from the early fourteenth century up to and including the advent of printing. With Daniel Wakelin, I am editing
The Production of Books in England 1350-1530 for Cambridge UP: my own chapter for this book is on medieval bookbinding, which is also the subject of my next major research project.
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