Peter Grant Beidler

Background

Peter Grant Beidler was born on March 13, 1940, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, to Paul Henry, an architect, and Margaret (Grant) Beidler, a counselor.

Education

In 1962, Peter G. Beidler received a Bachelor of Arts at Earlham College. In 1965, received a Master of Arts at Lehigh University, and Doctor of Philosophy, in 1968.

Career

From 1968 to 1972, Peter G. Beidler worked as an assistant professor at English Lehigh University in Bethlehem, then associate professor from 1972 to 1977, and professor from 1977 to 1978. From 1983 to 1984, he became a research professor at University of Kent. From 1987 to 1988, he was a Fulbright professor at Sichuan University. From 1989 to 1990, Beidler was a director of Freshman Writing Program at English Lehigh University and Distinguished Teaching Professor at Baylor University from 1995 to 1996.

Achievements

• Peter G. Beidler is known as a contributor to books, including A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500, Volume 11: The Romances, edited by J. Burke Severs, Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (New Haven, CT), 1967; Chaucer and Gower: Difference, Mutuality, Exchange, edited by R.F. Yeager, University of Victoria (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada), 1991; and The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales, edited by Leonard Michael Koff and Brenda Deen Schildgen, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (East Brunswick, NJ), 2000. He is a contributor of more than 150 articles and reviews to periodicals, including English Record, Costerus: Essays in English and American Language and Literature, Italica, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Arizona Quarterly, and Journal on Excellence in College Teaching.

Works

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  • Masculinities in Chaucer

    (How does Chaucer portray the various male pilgrims in the...)

    1998
  • Self-reliance, Inc.: A Twentieth-century Walden Experiment

    (In the spring term of 1976, a courageous English professo...)

    2008
  • Murdering Indians: A Documentary History of the 1897 Killings That Inspired Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves

    (In February 1897 a family of six - four generations, incl...)

    2013
  • A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English

    (A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English shows where C...)

    2011
  • Writing Matters: Second Edition

    (Many students dread writing essays because no one has bot...)

    1990
  • Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Letters of William Cross Hazelton of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry Regiment

    (William Cross Hazelton spent four years as a brave and de...)

    2012
  • Writing Matters

    (Writing Matters offers easy-to-understand, down-to-earth,...)

    2009
  • Parkinson Pete's Bookshelves: Reviews of Eighty-Nine Books about Parkinson’s Disease

    (Parkinson’s disease has struck more than a million people...)

    2017
  • Why I Teach

    ("Why do you teach, Pete?" Simple enough question, but an ...)

    2013
  • A Reader's Companion to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

    (This second edition of Peter G. Beidler's Readers Compani...)

    2010
  • A Manual of the Writings in Middle English: 1050 - 1500 1967
  • Fig Tree John: An Indian in Fact and Fiction 1977
  • The American Indian in Short Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography 1979
  • John Gower's Literary Transformations in the Confessio Amantis: Original Articles and Translations 1982
  • Ghosts, Demons and Henry James: "Turn of the Screw" at the Turn of the Century 1989
  • A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich 1999
  • The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale 1996

Membership

Peter G. Beidler was a member Modern Language Association, New Chaucer Society, Medieval Society of America, Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Beta Delta.

Interests

• Carpentry, building

Connections

On June 15, 1963, Beidler married Anne E. Gilbert. They have four children: Paul, Kurt, Calloway and Nora.

Father:

Paul Henry Beidler

Mother:

Margaret (Grant) Beidler

Spouse:

Anne E. Gilbert

Son:

Kurt Beidler

Daughter:

Nora Beidler

Daughter:

Gretchen Beidler

Son:

Paul Beidler