Dr. Kathleen Hewett-Smith

Associate Professor of English
408 Ryland Hall
Office: (804) 289-8317
Fax: (804) 289-8313

Teaching:
Medieval English Lit
14th Century Lit.
Piers Plowman
Allegorical Theory
Mysticism

Research:
Late fourteenth-century English poetry
Cultural History of Poverty
The writings of Salman Rushdie

Selected Publications:

Piers Plowman: A Book of Essays. New York and London: Routledge, 2001

"'Lo, here lyflode ynow, yf oure beleue be trewe': Poverty
and the Transfiguration of History in the Central Visions of
Piers Plowman." Chaucer Yearbook 5 (1998): 117-40.

"Allegory on the Half-Acre: The Demands of History." The
Yearbook of Langland Studies 10 (1996): 1-22.

"Anglo-Saxon in the 'Mutt and Jute' Episode of Finnegans
Wake," James Joyce Quarterly, 34 (1992): 8-12.

"Transcript Error and the Text of Troilus." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991): 99-119.

"Revisions in the Athlone Editions of the A and B Versions of Piers Plowman." The Yearbook of Langland Studies 4 (1990): 151-54