Joseph D. Parry, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Humanities
Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature
Brigham Young University

4002 JFSB, Provo, UT 84602

Phone: 801-422-3138
Fax: 801-422-4649
E-mail: joseph_parry@byu.edu

Background

1994 PhD University of Utah
1993 Joined BYU faculty
1987 MA Brigham Young University
1985 BA Brigham Young University

Interests

Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Courses

Humanities 201/202
Humanities 250
Humanities 350
Senior seminars on the 14th Century, Renaissance Humanism, 16th Century Reformations

Selected Publications and Projects

“Judgment, Mobility, and Spenser’s Mutabilitie.” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 51 (2003-04): 131-142.

“Petrarch’s Mourning, Spenser’s Scudamour, and Britomart’s Gift of Death.” Forthcoming in Comparative Literature Studies.

“Lawman’s Vortigern: the Problem of Knowledge and the Problem of Evil.” La3amon: Context, Language, and Interpretation. Eds. Rosamund Allen, et al. King’s College Medieval Studies Series, Vol. 19. King’s College, University of London, 2002. 313-34.

“Interpreting Female Agency and Responsibility in The Miller’s Tale and The Merchant’s Tale.Philological Quarterly 80, no. 2 (2002): 133-67.

“Phaedria and Guyon: Traveling Alone in The Faerie Queene, Book II.” Spenser Studies 15 (2001): 53-77.

“Giraldus Cambrensis and the Place of Authority.” Allegorica 22 (2001): 3-28.

“Narrators, Messengers, and Lawman’s Brut.Arthuriana 8.3 (1998): 46-61.

“Following Malory out of Arthur’s World.” Modern Philology 95 (1997): 147-69.

“Dorigen, Narration, and Coming Home in the Franklin’s Tale,Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 262-93.

“Narration and Quattrocento Annunciation Paintings,” JRMMRA (Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association) 17 (1996): 188-201.

“Margery Kempe’s Inarticulate Narration,” Magistra 1.2 (1995): 281-98.

Affiliations

Medieval Academy of America
Renaissance Society of America
International Spenser Society
New Chaucer Society
Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association



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