Carolyn Collette

Carolyn P. Collette is an American literary critic and a specialist in medieval literature, particularly Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. She is Professor Emerita of English Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College, and a research associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, in England.

Carolyn Collette
Occupation	Professor
Nationality	American
Genre	Medieval literature
Notable works	Species, Phantasms and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in the Canterbury Tales

Background

Collette received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Select bibliography

Books

• Species, Phantasms and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in the Canterbury Tales. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
• Finding Common Ground: A Guide to Personal, Professional and Public Writing, with Richard Johnson, 2nd ed. (New York: Addison Wesley Longman), 1997.

Articles

• "A Closer Look at Seinte Cecile's Special Vision," The Chaucer Review, 10, 1976, 337–49.
• "Sense and Sensibility in The Prioress' Tale," The Chaucer Review, 15, 1981, 138–150.
• "Ubi Peccaverant, Ibi Punirentur: The Oak Tree and The Pardoner's Tale," The Chaucer Review, 19, 1985, 39–45.
• "Umberto Eco, Semiotics and The Merchant's Tale," The Chaucer Review, 24, 1989, 132–38.
• "Chaucer and Victorian Medievalism: Culture and Society," Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies, Vol. 29–30, 1989, 115–125.
• "Chaucer's Discourse of Mariology," in Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative, ed. Robert Edwards, by D.S. Brewer, 1994, 127–147.
• "Heeding the Counsel of Prudence: A Context for the Melibee," The Chaucer Review, 29, 1995, 416–433.

External links

• Official site
• Book review