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Professor and Chair of English in Arts & Sciences
Expertise: Medieval literatures, Medieval culture, Chaucer, literary history, literary theory, poetics, The Bible, blasphemy, postcolonial studies, Australian studies Bio:
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Additional Background: David Lawton received his MA from Oxford and his Ph.D. from the University of York, where he held his first academic post in 1974-75. He moved to the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1975, and stayed there as reader in Early English Language Literature until 1992. From 1992 to 1995, he was professor and head of English in the University of Tasmania, moving to England in 1995 to be professor of English and chair of literature in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where he remains Professorial Fellow. In 1998 he became professor of English at Washington University, and was named chair in January 2002. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1993. He was director of graduate studies in English at Sydney and as well as at Washington University (1999-2002). He has served as main adviser on more than 20 Ph.D. dissertations, and helped steer several on to subsequent publication. Former students of his hold tenured or tenurable academic positions in Australia, Britain, Japan and the United States. Lawton was one of four Washington University faculty to receive an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in 2002 from the Graduate Student Senate of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. |
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