Faculty

David Joseph Wrisley

D.J. Wrisley (Ph.D., Princeton) is an Associate Professor in the Civilization Sequence Program and the Department of English. 

He specializes in literature and culture of the late middle ages in France, the Low Countries and England.  He is also interested in comparative research projects linking continental Europe to the Arab Mediterranean (both Maghreb and Mashreq). 

His current book project concerns images of the Eastern Mediterranean and Islamic world in the Library of Burgundy (15th century).

He has published on hagiography and medieval romance, the history of translation and rewriting, image/text relation in medieval manuscripts and the history and memory of the crusading movement. 

He has also begun projects in literary and historical translation from the Arabic, medieval and modern.  

He teaches the following courses:

CVSP 201 (Ancient Near East and Classical Civilization)

CVSP 202 (Medieval and Renaissance Islamic and Christian Thought)

CVSP 203 (Enlightenment and Modernity)

CVSP 207E (Epic: Texts and Contexts I)

CVSP 208E (Epic: Texts and Contexts II)

CVSP 207A (Love: Human and Divine)

English 210 (Literature of the Middle Ages)