Degrees
- B.A., Marquette 1981
- M.A., Virginia 1984
- Ph.D., Virginia 1992
Areas of Interest
Prendergast specializes in Old and Middle English Literature, and Theories of Medievalism.
Courses Taught
- ENGL 120: Investigations in Literary and Cultural Studies (Gods and Monsters)
- ENGL 200: Investigations in Literary Theory and Research Methods
- ENGL 210: Gender, Sex and Texts, 350-1500
- ENGL 240: The Canterbury Tales and the Forms of Medieval Narrative
- ENGL 240: Medieval Literature: The Place of the Premodern
- CMLT 290: Filming the Occult
- ENGL 300: Political Theater
- ENGL 401: Perspectives and Methods of Independent Study
- ENGL 451-452: Senior Independent Study Thesis
Publications
Books
- Poetical Dust: Poets’ Corner and the Making of Britain听(Forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Press)
- Chaucer鈥檚 Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus听(2004, Routledge)
- Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority and the Idea of the Authentic Text 1400-1602听(Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999) (Co-edited with Barbara Kline)
Articles
- “Geoffrey Chaucer and the Anti-presence of Early Modern Celebrity” in聽Chaucer and Fame, ed. Catherine Nall and Isabel Davis (Boydell and Brewer, 2015).
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“Canon Formation” in聽A Handbook to Middle English Studies, ed. Marion Turner (Blackwells, 2013).
- 鈥淎uthorizing Will: John But and the Recuperation of William Langland鈥 in聽Ye, baw for bokes: Essays in Honor of Hoyt N. Duggan聽ed. Michael Calabrese and Stephen Shepherd (Marymount Press, 2013).
- With Maria T. Prendergast, 鈥淭he Invention of Propaganda: a Critical Commentary on and Translation of聽Inscrutabili Divinae Providentiae Arcano,鈥 in聽The Oxford Handbook of Propaganda Studies, ed. Jonathan Auerbach and Russ Castronovo (Oxford, 2013).
- “Impossible Dissent,”聽听(2012).
- 鈥淭he Work of Robert Langland鈥 in聽Renaissance Retrospections, ed. Sarah Kelen (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2012).
- With Stephanie Trigg, 鈥淭he Negative Erotics of Medievalism.鈥 in聽Post Historical Middle Ages, ed. Sylvia Federico and Liz Scala (Palgrave, 2009).
- 鈥淪penser鈥檚 Phantastic History,聽The Ruines of Time聽and the Invention of Medievalism,鈥澛Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies聽38 (Spring, 2008).
- With Stephanie Trigg, 鈥淲hat is Happening to the Middle Ages?鈥澛New Medieval Literatures聽9 (2008).
- 鈥淭he Invisible Spouse: Arthur, Henry VI and the Fifteenth-Century Subject,鈥澛Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies聽38 (2002).
- 鈥淲riting, Authenticity and the Fabrication of the Chaucerian Text鈥 (Introduction to聽Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority and the Idea of the Authentic Text 1400-1602聽[Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999]).
- 鈥淐haucer鈥檚 Doppelg盲nger: Thomas Usk and the Reformation of Chaucer,鈥 (in聽Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority and the Idea of the Authentic Text 1400-1602聽[Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999]).
- 鈥溾橶anton Recollection鈥: The Idolatrous Pleasures of聽Beowulf,鈥 in聽New Literary History聽30.1 (1999).
- 鈥淧olitics, Prodigality and the Reception of Chaucer鈥檚 鈥楶urse,鈥欌 in聽Reinventing the Middle Ages, Ed. William Gentrup (Belgium: Brepols, 1998).
Current projects聽include a book on the theory of medievalism, being jointly written with Stephanie Trigg of the University of Melbourne entitled “Medievalism and Its Discontents,” and a collection of essays co-edited with Jessica Rosenfeld (“Textual Agencies: Chaucer and the Subject of Form”).