Graduate Program in English
Graduate Program in English
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: 910.521.6624
Fax: 910.775.4092
Email: maee@uncp.edu
Location: Dial Humanities Building, Room 121
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roger a. ladd
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Roger
A. Ladd, Assistant Professor and |
EDUCATION
A.B. Princeton University
M.A, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dr. Ladd's main focus in the classroom is the development of his students' experience of the relatively distant past through texts and their material contexts. Because his specialty is early literature, his main goal in teaching is helping students to bridge the gaps caused by the alterity of the past, and to find common ground with those texts in the British tradition that often seem the most foreign. He believes that the challenge sometimes presented by this alterity provides a unique opportunity to develop writing, research, and interpretive skills. His students balance group discussions, individual research, and a variety of writing assignments and presentations in their own quests for understanding.
Dr. Ladd's own research focuses primarily on the late Middle Ages, particularly such authors as Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, and Margery Kempe. His work is primarily materialist in nature, and in particular focuses on the lessons we can learn about the ideology of late medieval texts from recent work in economic history. He also remains interested in questions of language, the ways that manuscript contexts can help us to understand texts, and in how some of the ideas addressed by late medieval writers find expression in the popular literature of the Elizabethan period. He has published articles on Chaucer, Kempe, and the Early Modern novelist Thomas Deloney; he is also working on a book-length study of portrayals of merchants in late medieval literature.
Updated: Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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