David Wallace (medievalist)

David Wallace is a British scholar of medieval literature and Judith Rodin Professor of English, who teaches in the USA University of Pennsylvania.^[1] After undergraduate study at the University of York, he completed a Ph.D. in 1983 at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge.^[2] From 2018 to 2019, he served a one-year term as President of the Medieval Academy of America.^[3]

In 2019, he was awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize by the British Academy "for his lifetime contribution into the study of Chaucer and Medieval English literature".^[4]

Books

• Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Introduction (2017)
• The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing (co-editor with Carolyn Dinshaw; 2003)
• The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature (editor; 1999)
• Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy (1997)