R. D. Perry

Assistant Professor

Faculty

r.d.perry@du.edu

Sturm Hall, 2000 East Asbury Avenue Denver, CO 80208

What I do

Assistant Professor of English and Literary Studies

Professional Biography

R. D. Perry received his PhD in English and Medieval Studies, with a designated emphasis in Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley. Before that, he received an MA in English from the University of Georgia as well as BAs in English and Philosophy from that same institution. He specializes in late medieval and early modern English and French literature (as well as some Italian and Latin literature), late medieval and early modern Christianity, as well as Critical Theory and the History of Philosophy.

Degree(s)

Ph.D., English and Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
MA, English, University of Georgia, 2009
BA, English and Philosophy, University of Georgia, 2003

Featured Publications

“Introduction.” In Charles D'orléans' English Aesthetic: The Form, Poetics, And Style Of "Fortunes Stabilnes". 1-23 Boydell and Brewer. 2020. https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843845676/charles-dorleans-english-aesthetic/.

Perry, R. D. “Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale' And The Logic Of Literature.” Poetics Today 41, no. 1, (2020): 37-57. https:// https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-7974072.

Perry, R. D. Philip Knox, Jonathan Morton, And Daniel Reeve, Eds., Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis And Experience In The European Middle Ages (Brepols, 2018) The Medieval Review https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/29006.

Perry, R. D. Sebastian J. Langdell, And Thomas Hoccleve, Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, And The Invention Of Chaucer (Liverpool Up, 2018) Edited by Katherine L Jansen. 3 ed. Speculum 850-2. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/703839.

Perry, R. D. “Lydgate's Virtual Coteries: Chaucer's Family And Gower's Pacificism In The Fifteenth Century.” Speculum 93, no. 3, (2018): 669-98. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/698442.

Presentations

Perry, R. D. D. “A Complete Canterbury Tales?” Medieval Questions, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Kings College, Cambridge, 2020.