Dr. Howes is an associate professor of English and the Interim Director of the Marco
Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, is co-editor of a new edition of
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" with Marie Borroff of Yale University. The
book, published in the Norton Critical Edition series, is a late 14th-century Middle
English romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur’s Round
Table. It also includes two French tales about Sir Gawain, three sections from the
original Middle English poem, ten interpretive essays about the central concerns of the
work, a chronology of important historical and literary dates, and a selected
bibliography. Howes’ first book, "Chaucer’s Gardens and the Language of
Convention," established her as one of the leading commentators on landscape in
Medieval literature, a reputation solidified in 2007 when her edited anthology,
"Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative," was published. This spring
and summer Howes is presenting work from her next book project, "Trekking the
Medieval Landscape," at the Medieval Academy meeting in New Haven, CT, and at the
New Chaucer Society meeting in Siena, Italy.
