David Wallace
Research Interests
- 20th-Century British Literature
- Early Modern Literature
- Medieval Literature
- Postcolonial Literature and Global Anglophone
- Environmental Humanities
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Poetry and Poetics
Bio
David Wallace is a medievalist who looks forward to the early modern period; he works on English and Italian matters with additional interests in French, German, women's writing, romance, "discovery" of the Americas and the history of slavery, and Europe. His most recent book is Strong Women: http://blog.oup.com/2011/05/strong-women/ He is currently editing the first literary history of Europe, 1348-1418, which is organized not by 'national blocks' but by nine sequences of places, or itineraries. It assumes that the space of 'Europe' becomes intelligible only through dialogue with that which forms its 'outside,' or dialogues with it. There is an interactive website to support this project.