Background
He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1976.
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This revisionary study of the origins of courtly literature reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through new research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern courtier. In close readings of early Tudor poetry, court drama, letters, manuscript anthologies and printed books, Seth Lerer illuminates a "Pandaric" world of displayed bodies, surreptitious letters, and transgressive performances.
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Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This edition features a new chapter on the influence of biblical translation and an epilogue on the relationship of English speech to writing. A unique blend of historical and personal narrative, Inventing English is the surprising tale of a language that is as dynamic as the people to whom it belongs.
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A study of the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life.
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Distinguished Professor Dean of Arts
He was born in Brooklyn, New York City, and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1976.
He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree by the University of Chicago in 1981.
He had previously held the Avalon Foundation Professorship in Humanities at Stanford University. Lerer specializes in historical analyses of the English language, in addition to critical analyses of the works of several authors, including in particular Geoffrey Chaucer. He gained a second Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oxford in 1978.
He taught at Princeton University from 1981 to 1990 and at Stanford from 1991 to 2008.
In 2009, he joined the faculty of University of California-San Diego as Dean of Arts and Humanities and Distinguished Professor of Literature. He has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Huntington Library.
In 1996 he was the Hurst Visiting Professor at Washington University in Saint Louis, and in 2002 he was the Helen Cam Fellow in Medieval Studies at Cambridge University. In 2015 he was the Keeley Visiting Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford.
He has also published works on the history of reading and the culture of noble courts.
Lerer is widely recognised as a teacher and his facility in Old and Middle English pronunciation, in particular the different dialects of Middle English. Several of his lecture series have been made available commercially.
(This revisionary study of the origins of courtly literatu...)
( This book treats Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy as...)
( Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English lan...)
(A study of the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism tha...)