English Department Faculty

Eric Weiskott

Professor

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Eric Weiskott

Ph.D.

Contact

Stokes Hall S407

Telephone: 617-552-3718

Email: weiskott@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Wesleyan University
  • Ph.D., Yale University

Research Interests

poetry and poetics; poetic meter; periodization; genre; manuscript studies; early English literature; contemporary poetry.

Department

English

Biography

Specializes in poetry, poetic meter, and periodization (the division of history into distinct periods). Courses taught include Chaucer and Gower, Game of Thrones: Medieval English Political Poetry, Studies in Poetry, and Introduction to Creative Writing.

Monographs

  • (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
  • (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Scholarly Editions

  • William Langland,听Piers Plowman: A New Annotated Edition of the A-text, ed. Eric Weiskott (University of Exeter Press, under contract)
  • with the assistance of Celia Smithmier, 鈥�The Death of Blanche the Duchess,鈥� in The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge University Press, under contract)

Book-length poetry/translation

  • 听(punctum press, forthcoming)

Edited Collections

  • with Irina Dumitrescu,听听(Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2019)
  • with Stephanie L. Batkie, 鈥�,鈥澨�Yearbook of Langland Studies听32 (2018): 237-389
  • with Natalie Gerber, 鈥�,鈥� in听Arcade: Literature, Humanities, and the World听(launched December 2018)

Articles

  • 鈥淭he Authenticity of the Rubrics in the A-text of听Piers Plowman,鈥澨�Medium 脝vum听(forthcoming)
  • 鈥淎vant-Garde Difficulty and the Shape of Claudia Rankine鈥檚 Poetic Career,鈥澨�Critical Quarterly听(forthcoming)
  • 鈥淏efore Chaucer, Inc.: Thomas Pope Blount鈥檚 Literary History,鈥澨�Chaucer Review听(forthcoming)
  • 鈥淩eal Magic in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,鈥� Essays in Criticism (forthcoming)
  • 鈥淎 Return to Form?鈥� [review of Ben Lerner, The Lights (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2023)], Exacting Clam (forthcoming)
  • 鈥淩icardian Poetry in Florence Converse鈥檚听Long Will听(1903),鈥澨�Notes and Queries听(forthcoming)
  • 鈥淭homas Campbell and the Unmaking of John Gower,鈥澨�Leeds Medieval Studies听(forthcoming)
  • 鈥淲illiam Langland, 鈥楩ather of English Poetry鈥�: Thomas Dunham Whitaker鈥檚听Piers Plowman,鈥澨�Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America听(forthcoming)
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Journal of English and Germanic Philology听123 (2024): 137-56
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�postmedieval听15 (2024): 329-46
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�English Studies 105 (2024): 529-35
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�ELH听91 (2024): 629-62
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Chaucer Review听58 (2023): 208-31
  • 鈥溾赌�,鈥澨�Studies in the Age of Chaucer听45 (2023): 205-46
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Studia Neophilologica听95 (2023): 307-17
  • 鈥溾�澨�English Studies听103 (2022): 547-54
  • 鈥溾�澨�English Studies听103 (2022): 777-86
  • 鈥溾�澨�Studia Metrica et Poetica 9.2 (2022): 117-32
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Profession Fall 2022
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�New Literary History听52 (2021): 169-88
  • with Ian Cornelius, 鈥�,鈥澨�Language and Literature 30 (2021): 249-75
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听67听(2020): 340-47
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Studies in Philology听117 (2020): 225-39
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�postmedieval听10 (2019): 8-21
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�English Studies听100 (2019): 591-603
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Viator听50 (2019): 207-47
  • with Stephanie L. Batkie, 鈥�,鈥澨�Yearbook of Langland Studies听32听(2018): 237-44 (for 鈥淐haucer鈥檚 Langland鈥� essay cluster, as above)
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Hopkins Quarterly听45 (2018): 101-18
  • 鈥�,鈥� ELH 84 (2017): 259-85
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Studia Metrica et Poetica听4 (2017): 41-65听
  • 鈥�,鈥� Studies in Philology 114 (2017): 245-77
  • 鈥淎 New Text of the Marvels of Merlin,鈥� Journal of the Early Book Society 19 (2016): 227-39
  • 鈥�,鈥� Modern Language Quarterly 77 (2016): 473-98
  • 鈥�,鈥� Anglia 134 (2016): 587-603
  • 鈥�,鈥� Yearbook of Langland Studies 30 (2016): 123-73
  • 鈥�,鈥� Review of English Studies 67 (2016): 21-41
  • 鈥�,鈥� Language and Literature 25 (2016): 328-42
  • 鈥�,鈥� Yearbook of Langland Studies 29 (2015): 151-75
  • 鈥�,鈥� Neophilologus 99 (2015): 143-150
  • 鈥�,鈥� Anglo-Saxon England 44 (2015): 95-130
  • 鈥�,鈥� Chaucer Review 47 (2013): 323-36
  • 鈥�,鈥� Modern Philology 110 (2013): 441-58
  • 鈥�,鈥� Journal of English and Germanic Philology 111 (2012): 25-41

Book Chapters

  • 鈥淎ngst and Asymptote: The听Success听Motif in Nabokov鈥檚 Fiction,鈥� in听Nabokov on the Heights: New Studies from 艾可直播 College, ed. Maxim D. Shrayer (Academic Studies Press, under contract)
  • 鈥淓nglish Prophecy Books: Genre, Compilation, Periodization,鈥澨齣n听Poetics before Modernity: Literary Theory in the West from Antiquity to 1700, ed. Vladimir Brljak and Micha Lazarus (Oxford University Press, under contract)
  • 鈥淧rophecy and Verse Form in Witchcraft Drama:听Macbeth听and听Mother Bombie,鈥� in听Early Modern Witch Plays: A Critical Reader, ed. Todd Andrew Borlik (Bloomsbury, under contract)
  • 鈥淧rose Form and Poetic Metre,鈥� in The Oxford Handbook of Middle English Prose, ed. Sebastian Sobecki and Emily Steiner (Oxford University Press, under contract)
  • 鈥淩hythm,鈥� in听,听ed. Sean Pryor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 133-48
  • 鈥淰erse Forms and Prosody,鈥澨齣n听, ed. Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 76-90
  • 鈥淐harles d鈥橭rl茅ans鈥� English Metrical Phonology,鈥� in听, ed.听R. D. Perry and Mary-Jo Arn (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020), pp.听122-44
  • 鈥淭he Idea of Bede in English Political Prophecy,鈥� in听, ed. Jay Paul Gates and Brian O鈥機amb (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 270-88
  • with Irina Dumitrescu, 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥� in听, ed. Dumitrescu and Eric Weiskott (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2019), pp. 1-12
  • 鈥淭he听Paris Psalter听and English Literary History,鈥� in听, ed. Irina Dumitrescu and Eric Weiskott (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2019), pp. 107-34
  • 鈥�,鈥� in听Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature, ed. Andrew Hadfield (2018)
  • 鈥淢ultispectral Imaging and Medieval Manuscripts,鈥� in听,听ed. Jennifer E. Boyle and Helen J. Burgess (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 186-96
  • 鈥淧uns and Poetic Style in Old English,鈥� in听, ed. Mikael Males (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 191-211
  • 鈥淲illiam Langland鈥檚听Piers Plowman,鈥� in听Major Authors and Movements in British Literature, ed. Kirilka Stavreva, for the electronic resource听Gale Researcher听(2017)
  • 鈥淎lliterative Meter after 1450:听The Vision of William Banastre,鈥� in听, ed. Lindy Brady and M. J. Toswell (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2016), pp. 149-79
  • 鈥淟awman, the Last Old English Poet and the First Middle English Poet,鈥� in听, ed. Marie-Fran莽oise Alamichel (Paris: L鈥橦armattan, 2013), pp. 11-57

Notes and Encyclopedia Entries

  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听(online)
  • 鈥淲illiam Thynne鈥檚 Copy of the Book of the Duchess,鈥� The Library (forthcoming)
  • 鈥�,鈥� ANQ (online)听
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听71 (2024): 101-105
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听71 (2024): 230-32
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听71 (2024): 154-57听
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听71 (2024): 19-23
  • 鈥�,鈥� Notes and Queries听71 (2024): 220-24
  • 鈥�,鈥� The Explicator听82 (2024): 95-7
  • 鈥淎lliterative Verse,鈥� in听,听ed. Richard Newhauser (4 vols.) (Oxford: Blackwell, 2023), 54-7
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听70 (2023): 242-43
  • 鈥溾�澨�ANQ听36 (2023): 462-63
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�ANQ听36 (2023): 319-20
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�The Nabokovian听84 (2023): [1-3]
  • 鈥�,鈥� Notes and Queries 70 (2023): 54-5
  • 鈥淢eter and Metrics,鈥� in听,听ed. Richard Newhauser (4 vols.) (Oxford: Blackwell, 2023), 1213-15
  • 鈥溾�澨�The Explicator听80 (2022): 103-105
  • 鈥溾�澨�Notes and Queries 69 (2022): 277-81
  • with Joon Park, 鈥溾�澨�The Explicator听80 (2022): 73-7
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�ANQ听35 (2022): 433-36
  • 鈥溾�澨�Notes and Queries听69 (2022): 192-96
  • 鈥溾�澨�Notes and Queries 69 (2022): 273-77
  • 鈥溾�澨�Notes and Queries听69 (2022): 196-98
  • 鈥淲illiam Langland Translates Cicero,鈥澨�Medium 脝vum听91 (2022): 334-38
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries 68 (2021): 160-62
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�ANQ听34 (2021): 9-10
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries 68 (2021): 253-55
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Neophilologus 105 (2021): 457-61
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听67听(2020): 12-13
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries 67 (2020): 474
  • 鈥溾赌�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听67 (2020): 182-85
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries 67 (2020): 474-75
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听66 (2019): 347-49
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听66 (2019): 217-19
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听66 (2019): 361-63
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听66 (2019): 509-10
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听65 (2018): 478-80
  • 鈥�,鈥欌赌澨�Notes and Queries听65 (2018): 483-84
  • 鈥�,鈥欌赌澨�Notes and Queries听65 (2018): 494-95
  • 鈥�,鈥� Medium 脝vum听86 (2017): 147-51
  • 鈥�,鈥� ANQ听30 (2017): 133-36
  • 鈥�,鈥� Notes and Queries 64 (2017): 217-20
  • 鈥�,鈥� Notes and Queries 63 (2016): 421-22
  • 鈥�,鈥� Notes and Queries 63 (2016): 18-19
  • 鈥�,鈥� ANQ 29 (2016): 51-2
  • 鈥淎 Plea for Pronunciation,鈥� in 鈥淥ld English across the Curriculum: Contexts and Pedagogies,鈥� ed. Haruko Momma and Heide Estes, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 22 (2015): 41-2
  • 鈥溾�欌赌� Notes and Queries 62 (2015): 188-90
  • 鈥淎nother New Fragment of Speculum Vitae,鈥� Journal of the Early Book Society 17 (2014): 352-55
  • 鈥�,鈥� Notes and Queries 60 (2013): 24
  • 鈥�,鈥� Notes and Queries 60 (2013): 485-87
  • 鈥�,鈥� Notes and Queries 60 (2013): 483-85
  • 鈥�,鈥� English Studies 93 (2012): 891-96
  • 鈥�,鈥欌赌� Notes and Queries 59 (2012): 5-6
  • 鈥�,鈥� Notes and Queries 58 (2011): 3-7

Public Writing

  • 鈥溾�澨�Chronicle of Higher Education听2 September 2022
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Public Seminar听10 April 2020
  • 鈥�,鈥欌赌澨�Vox听25 February 2019
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Inside Higher Ed听19 November 2018
  • 鈥溾�澨�艾可直播 College Magazine听winter 2018: 48-9听
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�How Did We Get into This Mess?听30 November 2017
  • 鈥�,鈥欌赌澨�Chronicle of Higher Education听1 November 2017
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Fair Field听3 October 2017
  • 鈥�,鈥澨�Aeon听15 September 2017
  • 鈥溾�澨�The Medieval Magazine听31 July 2017
  • 鈥�,鈥� The Conversation 5 July 2017
  • 鈥�,鈥� Inside Higher Ed 14 June 2017
  • 鈥�,鈥� The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought 1 May 2017
  • 鈥�,鈥� Inside Higher Ed 14 April 2017听
  • 鈥�,鈥欌赌� The Public Medievalist 28 March 2017
  • 鈥�,鈥� How Did We Get Into This Mess? 23 February 2017
  • 鈥�,鈥� Times Literary Supplement 19 January 2017
  • 鈥�,鈥� The Atlantic 27 December 2016
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