Washington and Lee University
On leave fall term 2009Ph.D., Princeton University
Medieval literature; justice and law in Medieval and Renaissance literature; virtues and vices; social reform in the Middle Ages. Professor Craun's research has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers (2003), a Jessie Ball Dupont Fellowship, National Humanities Center (2002-3), and a Huntington Library/British Academy Fellowship for Study in Great Britain (2002).
English 105—Composition and Literature
English 235—Fantasy
English 250—British Literature: Medieval and Early Modern
English 312—Chaucer, Dante, Langland: Vision and Life
English 313—Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
English 314—Romance and Ballad
Seminar Topics
Talk, Reputation, Slander, Truth, Honor
King Arthur and Robin Hood: Medieval Legendary Heroes and Modern Revisions
Ethics and the Reading of Shakespeare and Chaucer
Justice in Late Medieval Literature
Law and Justice in Renaissance Literature
Medieval Western Encounters with the Moslem World
Pastoral
Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
"Lewte and the Practice of Fraternal Correction." Yearbook of Langland Studies 15 (2001): 15-25.
"'Fama' and Pastoral Constraints on Rebuking Sin: 'The Book of Margery Kempe'." Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe. Ed. Thelma Fenster and Daniel Small. Cornell University Press, 2003.
Editor and contributor. The Hands of the Tongue: Essays on Deviant Speech. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007.
"'It is a freletee of flessh': Excuses for Sin, Pastoral Rhetoric, and Moral Agency" in In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard Newhauser. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, 2007. 33-60.
Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
