#  James Simpson 

Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Emeritus

 

 

 



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 email <jsimpson@fas.harvard.edu> 

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 Education: B.A., University of Melbourne (1976)  
M.Phil., University of Oxford (1980)  
Ph.D., University of Cambridge (1996)

 Interests: Late medieval and Reformation Western European Literature, 1150-1680.

 Selected Works:  
*Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism* (Harvard University Press, 2019); Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History, co-edited with Brian Cummings, *Twenty-First Century Approaches*, 2 (Oxford University Press, 2010); *Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition* (Oxford University Press, 2010); *Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents* (2007); *Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350-1547* (2002); (co-ed.) *Norton Anthology of English Literature*, ninth edition (2012); (co- ed.) *Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England* (2002); *Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille’s ‘Anticlaudianus’ and John Gower’s ‘Confessio amantis’* (1995); *Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text*(1990; second, revised edition 2007).



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Role
    
     [Emeriti](/role/emeriti)