Michael Van Dussen
Middle English literature (14th and 15th centuries); the global Middle Ages; manuscript studies; book history; communication before print; medieval encyclopedias, florilegia, and commonplace books; medieval travel writing; late-medieval English and Latin literature; late-medieval religious controversy (esp. the Wycliffite and Hussite controversies); literature and law; the history of mnemonics; medieval religious controversy; medieval drama; England and Eastern Europe; Richard Rolle.
Michael Van Dussen听is the Director of the Lollard Society. He听is currently conducting research on reformist encyclopedias, particularly manuscripts of the Wycliffite Floretum and Rosarium and their circulation in England and Bohemia (14th and 15th centuries). He is also a member of the Global Pasts Research Group, supported by 成人VR视频's Yan P. Lin Centre: Freedom and Global Orders in the Ancient and Modern Worlds.
M.A., Ph.D. (Ohio State University)
B.A. (Ohio Wesleyan University)
Books
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. Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies (Liverpool University Press, 2020).
(ed. with Pavel Soukup). Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 90 (Leiden: Brill, 2020).
(ed. with J. Patrick Hornbeck II) (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).
(ed. with Michael Johnston) (Cambridge University Press, 2015; paperback 2017).
(ed. with Pavel Soukup) (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013).
(Cambridge University Press, 2012; paperback 2014).
Articles
"." In Peter Brown and Jan 膶erm谩k, eds., England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer (Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2023), 39-54.
鈥溾�� In Richard Firth Green and Robert F. Yeager, eds., 鈥淥f latine and of othire lare鈥�: Essays in Honour of David R. Carlson (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2022), 224-44.
"." In Kantik Ghosh and Pavel Soukup, eds., Wycliffism and Hussitism: Methods of Thinking, Writing, and Persuasion, c. 1360-1460 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2021), 299-318.
(with Pavel Soukup) "." In Michael Van Dussen and Pavel Soukup, eds., A Companion to the Hussites. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 90 (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 1-22.
"." In Peter Brown, ed., A New Companion to Chaucer (Oxford: Blackwell, 2019), 475-486.
"." Medium Aevum 87 (2018): 41-71.
(with J. Patrick Hornbeck II) "." In J. Patrick Hornbeck II and Michael Van Dussen, eds., Europe After Wyclif (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017), 1-10.
(with Michael Johnston) "." In Michael Johnston and Michael Van Dussen, eds., The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 1-16.
"." In Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson, eds., Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2015), 238-254.
"." Mediaeval Studies 76 (2014): 275-296.
"" In Heresis seminaria. Pojmy a koncepty v b谩d谩n铆 o husitstv铆, edited by Pavl铆na Rychterov谩 and Pavel Soukup (Prague: Filosofia, 2013), 49-73.
(with Pavel Soukup) 鈥�.鈥� In Michael Van Dussen and Pavel Soukup, eds., Religious Controversy in Europe, 1378-1536: Textual Transmission and Networks of Readership (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013), 1-15.
鈥�.鈥� In Michael Van Dussen and Pavel Soukup, eds., Religious Controversy in Europe, 1378-1536: Textual Transmission and Networks of Readership (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013), 187-210.
鈥�.鈥� Yearbook of Langland Studies 25 (2011): 77-94.
"." Medium Aevum 78 (2009): 231-260.
"Bohemia in English Religious Controversy before the Henrician Reformation." The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 7 (2009): 42-60.
"." Viator 38 (2007): 217-234.
"." Forum for Modern Language Studies 41 (2005): 275-288.
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant for the project: "Pre-Modern Research and the Social Life of Reformist Texts: the Wycliffite Floretum,"听2023-2028
- Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant for the project: "Pre-Modern Research and the Social Life of Information: the Wycliffite Floretum,"听2022
- Fellow, Centrum medievistick媒ch studi铆 (Centre for Medieval Studies), Prague, Elected 2021
- Faculty of Arts Award for Distinction in Research, 2019
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Grant for the project: "English Encyclopedism and European Manuscript Culture in the Later Middle Ages," 2016-2021
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant for the project: "Collecting and Curiosity before Print: The Idea of the Archive in Fifteenth-Century England,鈥� 2013-2015
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Connection Grant for the "Europe after Wyclif" international conference (a joint 成人VR视频-Fordham endeavor, organized by Michael Van Dussen and J. Patrick Hornbeck II, held at Fordham University from 4-6 June 2014)
- Louis A. Dudek Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2014
- Fonds qu茅b茅cois de la recherche sur la soci茅t茅 et la culture (FQRSC), 脡tablissement de nouveaux professeurs鈥恈hercheurs grant for the project: 鈥淐rise et contact: controverse et communication religieuses avant la d茅couverte de l'impression, 1378鈥�1417,鈥� 2011-2014
Pennsylvania State University (State College, PA)
Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)