Stephen Shepherd

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Stephen Shepherd is a Canadian-born professor and authority on Middle English studies, particularly relating to the Vernacular. He received Bachelors and Masters degrees from Queen's University at Kingston before continuing on to the University of Oxford and earning a Doctorate of Philosophy. To support himself during his early college years, Shepherd worked as a zoo keeper in Canada. After completing his PhD, Shepherd began a teaching career while furthering his research on Middle English texts and Arthurian works. He currently teaches a variety of courses on such subjects at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

[edit] Published Works

Shepherd has published three Norton Critical Editions:

• Middle English Romances (1995)
• Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur (2004)
• William Langland's Piers Plowman (2006) (with Elizabeth Robertson)

He also edited the Early English Text Society edition of Turpines Story (Oxford University Press, 2004) and has published numerous essays.

[edit] Honors

Shepherd currently has fellowships to the Huntington Library and the Bibliographical Society of America, where he is able to continue his studies.

[edit] Hobbies

He is an avid photographer and has supplied some of the illustrations for his Norton Critical Editions, as well as having online galleries of his work.

Shepherd played the saxophone throughout his childhood and earned money by performing in jazz bands in his twenties, however he claims he has not "played in over a decade."