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Elizabeth Dobbs
Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature

Elizabeth Dobbs (B.A., St. John's College [Annapolis]; M.A. and Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo) teaches rhetoric, historical linguistics, and seminars on Chaucer and other English and European medieval writers. In Spring 2002, she taught an interdisciplinary MAP Seminar, "Conceptions of Space and Place in Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-1650," with Professor Marci Sortor from the History Department. She also has directed MAPs for the Linguistics Concentration, teaches a plus-2 in Old English with her course in historical linguistics, and regularly offers the option of readings in Latin, French, and Italian in her advanced seminars. She has co-edited a translation and commentary on Aristotle's Poetics, co-edited a monograph on Aristotle's theory of mathematics, and published articles in Studies in the Age of Chaucer and The Chaucer Review. She has developed two websites, Dr. Syntax and JGrimm.

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