Anthony Colin Spearing

Background

Spearing, Anthony Colin was born on January 31, 1936 in London. Came to the United States, 1987. Son of Frederick and Gertrude (Calnin) Spearing.

Education

Master of Arts, Cambridge University, England, 1960.

Career

W.M. Tapp research fellow Gonville-Caius College Cambridge University, 1959-1960, assistant lecturer in English, 1960-1964, official fellow Queens' College, 1960-1987, life fellow, since 1987, director studies in English, 1967-1985, lecturer in English, 1964-1985, reader in medieval English literature, 1985-1987. Visiting professor English University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1979-1980, 84, professor English, 1987-1989, Kenan professor English, since 1989. William Matthews lecturer Birkbeck College, London, 1983—1984.

Invited lecturer numerous colleges universities England, Europe, Canada, United States. Lansdowne visiting fellow University Victoria, 1993. Benjamin Meaker visiting professor University Bristol, 2003.

Conway lecturer University Notre Dame, 2007.

Achievements

• Anthony Colin Spearing has been listed as a noteworthy English literature educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Readings in Medieval Poetry

    (Readings in Medieval Poetry is a linked collection of ess...)

  • Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics

    (This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the...)

  • Medieval Dream-Poetry

    (A 1976 study of the medieval English dream-poem, set agai...)

  • The Gawain-Poet: A Critical Study

    (A study of the four great Middle English poems, Sir Gawai...)

  • The Medieval Poet as Voyeur

    (While love is private, and in medieval literature especia...)

  • Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry

    (This is the first critical book to study in depth the tra...)

  • The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (text only) by Anonymous,A. C. Spearing

    (The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Classic, Modern, ...)

  • Criticism and medieval poetry

    (This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)

  • Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde (Studies in English Literature ; No. 59)

    (Book by Chaucer)

  • (Readings in Medieval Poetry) Author: A. C. Spearing published on (May, 2009)
  • (Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry) Author: A. C. Spearing published on (September, 2009)
  • Gawain-Poet - A Critical Study, The
  • The Gawain-Poet: A Critical Study by A. C. Spearing (19-Aug-1976) Paperback

Membership

Member Medieval Academy American, International Association University Professors English, New Chaucer Society (trustee 1986-1990).