YVETTE KISOR

Associate  Professor of Literature
B.A., Rice University
M.A., University of California at Davis
Ph.D., University of California at Davis

Year Joined RCNJ: 2004

Courses Offered:

• Survey of British Literature I; British Medieval Literature; Major Authors: Chaucer; Major Authors: Tolkien; Age of Chaucer; College English; Readings in the Humanities; Shakespeare Plays and Arthurian Literature

Teaching Interest:

• Old English language and literature; Middle English; Beowulf ; Chaucer; History of the English Language; Tolkien; gender issues

Research Interest:

• Greek and Latin texts;Middle English romance Emaré; Nineteenth-century scholarship on Beowulf; Tolkien's use of medieval forms in his fiction

Recent Publications:

• "Moments of Silence, Acts of Speech: Uncovering the Incest Motif in the Man of Law's Tale." The Chaucer Review 40, no. 2 (2005): 141-62 "'Elves (and Hobbits) always refer to the Sun as She': Some Notes on a Note in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings." Tolkien Studies 4,  (2007) : 214-24 "Harthgrepa." ANQ 20, no. 3 (Summer 2007)  63-5