David Wallace is a British scholar of medieval literature and Judith Rodin Professor of English, who teaches in the USA University of Pennsylvania. After undergraduate study at the University of York, he completed a Ph.D. in 1983 at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. From 2018 to 2019, he served a one-year term as President of the Medieval Academy of America.
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".
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)
References
- "Department of English - David Wallace". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- "Professor David Wallace - Curriculum Vitae". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- "Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- "Sir Israel Gollancz Prize". The British Academy. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
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