When necessary, I am happy to provide background knowledge, to play devil's advocate, to coach. Students in most of my class will discover that I seldom lecture I want students to create their own knowledge. I also feel comfortable working with undergraduates in a committee role in a wide range of fields outside of medieval literature, especially in early modern literature and eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century fiction. I'm always happy to work, as supervisor or committee member, with students who have an interest in any area of Old or Middle English or historical linguistics. I have extensive experience teaching writing, and I have even taught a course in technical writing and document design. I have taught many of Concordia’s medieval course offerings, as well as History of the English Language, and also enjoy teaching introductory courses and courses to students from other programs.

The diversity of my research interests is reflected in the variety of courses I have taught, at Concordia and, earlier, at the University of Guelph, TCU, and the University of Kentucky.

In my writing, I have also ventured outside my home base in the late Middle English period. I have published on an Old English poem, Guthlac B, as well as on Jonathan Swift's Journal to Stella and Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and I am the co-editor of a collection of essays on receptions of the classical tale of the fall of Troy in medieval and early modern Europe. Sections of both of these large projects have been published, and I am completing the balance of them. My main research interests come together in the two large projects I am currently working on, a study of the manuscript transmission of Middle English didactic romances and an examination of the history of the editing of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. This article appeared in Philological Quarterly in 2019. I have just completed a co-authored article on the editorial treatment of Middle English didactic romances in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I am also interested in the history of the English language and readings of “the Middle Ages” in the post-medieval world, and I have published in several areas of textual criticism, including bibliography, manuscript studies, history of the book, and editorial theory. My research focuses on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century literature and culture, principally Chaucer and romance.

Term Limits by Steve Powell