A. C. Spearing

Anthony Colin Spearing (born 31 January 1936)^[1] is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia, specialising in medieval literature. He translated The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works for Penguin Classics.^[2]

Education

He was a student at Jesus College, Cambridge, a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge^[1] and received his M.A. from the University of Cambridge in 1960.^[3] He has been a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge since 1960, and Life Fellow since 1987.^[4] He has an honorary Ph.D. from Lund University, Sweden, and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters (Litt.D.) by the University of Cambridge on the 19th July 2014.^[5]

Works

Spearing has published numerous books and papers on topics of medieval English literature, including many works on Geoffrey Chaucer. Works by Spearing include:

• Criticism and Medieval Poetry (1964, 2 edn 1972; ISBN 0-06-496441-8)
• An Introduction to Chaucer (with Maurice Hussey and James Winny, 1965; ISBN 0-521-09286-8)
• The Medieval Poet as Voyeur (1993; ISBN 0-521-41094-0)
• Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Romances and Lyrics (2005; ISBN 0-19-818724-6).^[1]