Publications include Chaucer's Italian Tradition (University of Michigan Press, 2002); Dante's Aesthetics of Being (University of Michigan Press, 1999); The Cast of Character: The Representation of Personality in Ancient and Medieval Literature (University of Toronto Press, 1983); editor, "Wynnere and Wastoure and the Parlement of the Thre Ages," Middle English Texts Series, 1992; articles in various journals and collections.

I am especially interested in examining the aesthetic, social, and political aspects of cross-cultural translation in Middle English and medieval Italian works.

1967-1971 SUNY at Stony Brook, MA 1971 English 

1971-1975 Yale University, PhD 1975 Medieval Studies