Candace Barrington

Books and Edited Collections

2019. Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature. Edited with Sebastian Sobecki. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.

2019. Modernities and Global Medievalisms. Edited with Louise D’Arcens. Special issue of Digital Philology 8 (2019).

2018. Chaucer’s Global Compaignye: Reading The Canterbury Tales in Translation. Edited with Jonathan Hsy. Special issue of the Global Circulation Project at Literature Compass 15.6.

2017. Open Access Companion to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Member of the editorial collective. 10/20/2017. https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/.

2014. Thinking Historically After Historicism: Essays in Memory of Lee W. Patterson. Edited with Emily Steiner. A special issue of The Chaucer Review 48:4.

2007. American Chaucers. New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave/Macmillan.

2002. The Letter of the Law:  Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England.  Edited with Emily Steiner. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.          

Keynote Presentations

2024. “The Impossibility and Promise of Translating The Canterbury Tales,” 6 November, Iranian Comparative Literature Association Lecture, Shiraz, Iran

2024. “Taking Care,” CSU Undergraduate English Conference, 1 November, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut

2022. “Chaucer and the Translator’s Touch,” Washington Literary Society Lecture, 6 October, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia

2022. “’Countrefeted termes’: Chaucer’s The Physician Tale and faux translation,” Keynote, 18/19 March, Glocal Online Forum on Foreign Literature and Comparative Literature, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

2018. “The Feral in Chaucer Studies,” Plenary Roundtable, 11 July, 21st International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Toronto, ON, Canada

2017. “The Global Dissemination of Medieval European Literature,” 3 July, The Global Group, Koeki University, Sakata, Japan

2016. “Rural Medievalism,” Keynote, 16-18 June, The Global Medieval: Cultures of Modernities in the Global Medieval and Pre-modern World, The University of Sydney, Australia

Most Recent Articles

2024. “Dilapidated Medievalism and Gwendolyn Brooks’s ‘The Anniad,’” with Seamus Dwyer, in Women’s Restorative Medievalisms, eds. Suzanne Edwards and Matthew Vernon. ARC Humanities Press. 55-71

2024. “The Impossibility and Promise of Chaucerian Medievalism,” for Medievalism and Reception, eds. Ika Willis and Ellie Crookes. Boydell and Brewer. 24-39

2024. “Guise of Translation: The Case for Chaucer’s Ouevre,” in Chaucer issue edited by Amy Morgan and Sue Niebrzydowski. Yearbook of English Studies 53. 135-151

2023. “Midden, Trash, and Garbage: the Discourse of Debris in Bergvall’s “Shorter Chaucer Tales,” for Caroline Bergvall’s Medievalist Poetics: Migratory Texts and Transhistoric Methods, edited by Caroline Bergvall and Joshua Davies. ARC Humanities Press. 45-56

2022. “’Countrefeted termes’: Chaucer’s The Physician’s Tale and faux translation,” in Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (China) 7: 97-122

2022. “feeld Notes: Jos Charles’s Chaucerian ‘anteseedynts,’” in Time Mechanics: Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms, edited by David Hadbawnik. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Press. 61-80

2022. “Queer Times, Queer Forms: Noir Medievalism and Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales,” with Jonathan Hsy, in Time Mechanics: Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms, edited by David Hadbawnik. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Press. 159-177

2021. “Medieval New York City: A Walk through The Stations of the Cross,” in The United States of Medievalism, edited by Susan Aronstein and Tison Pugh. Toronto, CA: University of Toronto Press. 130-56

2021. “Medieval New Orleans: Mardi Gras,” with Usha Vishnuvajjala, in The United States of Medievalism, edited by Susan Aronstein and Tison Pugh. Toronto, CA: University of Toronto Press. 246-63

2019. “Modernities and Global Medievalisms,” with Louise D’Arcens. Editor’s introduction to special issue of Digital Philology 8: 1-13

2018. “Chaucer’s Global Orbits and Global Communities,” with Jonathan Hsy.  Editors’ introduction to special issue of the Global Circulation Project: Chaucer’s Global Compaignye. Literature Compass 15.6: e12457. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12457

2017. “Hypertranslation and Translatio Studii,” review essay in special issue on Thinking Across Tongues, edited by Jonathan Hsy, Mary Kate Hurley, and Andrew Kraebel. postmedieval 8: 376-392

2016. “Lost Chaucer: Natalie Wood’s ‘The Deadly Riddle’ and the Golden Age of American Television,” in Screening Chaucer: Absence, Presence, and Adapting The Canterbury Tales, edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press. 89-109

2016. “Archive Blindness: Peter Ackroyd's The Clerkenwell Tales," in special issue on After Eco: Novel Medievalisms, edited by Bruce Holsinger and Stephanie Trigg. postmedieval 7.2: 247-256

2015. “Common-Law and Penitential Intentionality in Gower’s ‘Tale of Paris and Helen,’” in special issue edited by R. F. Yeager and Kara McShane. South Atlantic Review 79.3-4: 132-143

2015. “The Spectral Advocate in John Gower’s Trentham Manuscript,” in Theorizing Legal Personhood in Late Medieval England.  Edited by Andreea Boboc. Leiden: Brill Publishers. 94-118  

2015. “Remediated Verse: Chaucer’s Tale of Melibee and Patience Agbabi’s 'Unfinished Business',” with Jonathan Hsy. Special issue on Contemporary Poetics and the Medieval Muse, edited by David Hadbawnik and Sean Reynolds. postmedieval 6.2: 136-145

2015. “Global Chaucers: Reflections on Collaboration and Digital Futures,” with Jonathan Hsy, Accessus 2.2: Article 2

2015. “Teaching Chaucer in Middle English: A Fundamental Approach,” in Innovative Approaches to Teaching Chaucer special issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 22.1: 21-32