Kathy Cawsey
Professor
Email: kathy.cawsey@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-6903
Mailing Address:
Room 3198, McCain Building, 6135 University Avenue
PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Research Topics:PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Medieval Literature 1350-1500
- Chaucer
- Malory
- Arthurian Literature
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Medievalism
- Modern Fantasy
- Middle English Literature
- Sexualized violence in Middle English Romance
Education
- BA (Wilfrid Laurier)
- MPhil (Oxford)
- PhD (University of Toronto)
Prof. Cawsey is the recipient of the 2021 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching.
My broader research includes most Later Middle English writing, such as Chaucer, Malory, Margery Kempe, the cycle dramas, and medieval romances; as well as modern medievalist fantasy such as J.R.R. Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay.
Selected Publications:
Books:
- The Broadview Anthology of Arthurian Literature, co-edited with Elizabeth Edwards. Broadview Press, 2024.
- Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings, Boydell & Brewer, 2020.
- Twentieth Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences. Ashgate Press, 2010.
Other publications:
- Guest editor. “Special issue: Sexualized Violence in the Middle Ages” Florilegium 38, 2025 (for 2021).
- “The Grammar of Rape in Chaucer and Gower.” Florilegium, 38, 2025 (for 2021), 72-88.
- “Lament during the Pandemic.” New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession. 2.2. Fall 2021.
- “Could Gollum be Singing a Sonnet? The Poetic Project of The Lord of the Rings.” Tolkien Studies 14 (2017): 53-69.
- “The Once and Future Childslayer: Guy Gavriel Kay’s Inversion of Malory’s Morte Darthur.” Arthuriana 25.2 (2015): 67-83.