Derek Pearsall Memoir Released 

A brief memoir of Derek Pearsall, a medievalist and Chaucerian who was the Gurney Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University, was recently released. An abstract and link to the memoir are included below. 

"The scholarly legacy of the late Derek Pearsall is well documented in his publication history, yet his importance as a teacher has not received the same degree of attention. This personal essay reconsiders the idea of a teaching archive by exploring the impact of a teacher thirty years after the conclusion of a class, upon a student who did not go on to become a medievalist. Through an appreciation of Derek's conversational approach to pedagogy, the author champions the dialogical relations at the heart of education which hold particular value during a time of social and professional disengagement."

You can read the memoir here.