William James Simpson

William James Simpson (born 16 March 1954, Melbourne) is an Australian academic.

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Education

Work Life

Simpson has worked in academia in Australia, the United Kingdom and The United States of America focusing on Medieval Literature more recently on Middle English and Early Modern literature and culture from 1150-1600.

Appointments

Awards

Work

His early work centred around literary analysis of poetry, especially the late 14th century English poem, Piers Plowman.[2] He later worked on Medieval Humanism. In 2002, he published an award winning literary history.[3] His most recent work, "Burning to Read" centres on the fundamentalist Bible reading in the early 16th century.

Simpson frequently lectures internationally[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] and reviews books extensively for a range of publications.[15][16][17][18][19]

Simpson contributes to many organisations and societies focussing on literature.[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]

Books: Author

Books: Editor

Books: Contributor

Articles

References

  1. ^ English: Graduate & alumni profiles - Melbourne University
  2. ^ Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text, Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library, 1 (Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1990)
  3. ^ Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350-1547, Vol 2 of The Oxford English Literary History, General Editor Jonathan Bate (Oxford University Press, 2002)
  4. ^ Clarendon Lectures, Oxford University Press and University of Oxford(2009): "The Sins of the Fathers: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition"
  5. ^ Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, British Academy (2006): "Bonjour Paresse: Idleness in Middle English Literature"
  6. ^ University of Chicago, English Department and Center for British Studies (2009): "Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the English Revolution"
  7. ^ University of Oxford, “After Arundel” Conference (2009): "Images in and Around Arundel"
  8. ^ Melbourne University, Australia (2008): "Iconoclasm in Melbourne, Massachusetts and the Museum of Modern Art"
  9. ^ University of Western Australia(2008) "Leaning to Die: The pre-Reformation English Image"
  10. ^ Duke University, “In the Footsteps of Petrarch”: International Conference(2004): "Subjects of Triumph and Literary History: Dido and Petrarch in Petrarch’s Trionfi and Africa"
  11. ^ Korea National University, November (2003): "Martyrdom in the Literal Sense: Surrey’s Psalm Paraphrases"
  12. ^ Université Paris I, Sorbonne, December (2002): "Diachronic History and the Shortcomings of Medieval Studies"
  13. ^ University of Victoria, BC, Lansdowne Lecture (2002): "Reform and Cultural Revolution 1350-1550"
  14. ^ University of Cambridge, Inaugural Lecture(2000): "The Rule of Medieval Imagination"
  15. ^ Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie, eds., John Stow (1525-1605) and the Making of the English Past: Studies in Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book. (London: The British Library, 2004), for Speculum 81 (2006), 849-50
  16. ^ Ralph Hanna, London Literature, 1300-1380 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi, 359, for Studies in the Age of Chaucer 28 (2006): 290-93
  17. ^ Bruce Holsinger, The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and the Making of Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, for Speculum 82 (2006), 198-200
  18. ^ john Bowers, Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, for Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 30 (2008), 343-46
  19. ^ J.A. Burrow, The Poetry of Praise (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), for Notes and Queries, 56 (2009): 278-280
  20. ^ Organizer, Cultural Reformations Conference, Harvard University 13–16 September 2008
  21. ^ Founding Co-editor, with David Aers and Sarah Beckwith, ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern, a monograph series published by University of Notre Dame Press, 2006- (two books published by 2009)
  22. ^ Trustee, New Chaucer Society, 2004-2006
  23. ^ Initiator and organiser of “Suffering History: Martyrdom in England 1401-1573,” 30 June-2 July, Queens” College Cambridge 2002
  24. ^ Co-organiser of the Second International Langland Conference, 29–31 July 1999, University of North Carolina, Asheville
  25. ^ Co-organiser of “Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm,” an interdisciplinary conference at King’s College Cambridge Research Centre, 29–30 June 1999
  26. ^ Member, Editorial Board, Parergon, Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies 1999-
  27. ^ Co-Editor, Yearbook of Langland Studies Vol 14, 1993-1996
  28. ^ Secretary, London Medieval Society, 1987-89