Gerald Richman, Professor

Gerald Richman 

Professor

Department of English
Suffolk University
41 Temple St.
Boston, MA 02114-4280     

 

Office: Fenton 227
Telephone: 617-573-8279
Email: grichman@suffolk.edu

 

Degrees Held
PhD English, Yale University (1977)
MPhil English, Yale University (1976)
BA English, Brasenose College, Oxford University (1972)
BA English (Phi Beta Kappa), University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1970)

 

Research Interests
History of the English Language, Old English, Middle English, Chaucer, Milton, the Long Eighteenth Century, Boston, Computer Assisted Pedagogy

 

Publications

Annotated Bibliography of Works of Fiction Set in Boston (under construction and continually updated)
http://webcas.cas.suffolk.edu/richman/Boston/bosbib.htm

 

Boston on the Internet Presentation (2007 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Boston, April 7) http://webcas.cas.suffolk.edu/richman/BostonontheInternet/indexACAPCA.html

 

Boston on the Internet Workshop (2007 Suffolk Academic Conference: Scholarship of Application: Integration and Connections, Boston, March 23) http://webcas.cas.suffolk.edu/richman/BostonontheInternet/

 

"A Third Choice: Adam, Eve, and Abdiel." Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (2003): 6.1-5. http://purl.oclc.org/emls/09-2/richthir.html

"A Possible Source for Dryden’s Bee and Drone Image in the ’Prologue to Amphitryon.’" English Language Notes 38 (2001): 36-40.

 "Poet and Scop in Beowulf." In Geardagum XXI (2000) : 61-91. 

"Thucydides and the Battle of Maldon." In Geardagum XX (1999): 111-23.

"Speaker and Speech Boundaries in The Wanderer." JEGP (82): 469-79. Rpt. Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England: Old English Shorter Poems, ed. Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe. New York: Garland, 1993. 303-18.

"Rape and Desire in The Wife of Bath’s Tale." Studia Neophilologica  61 (1999): 161-65.

"Idea Combining." In Creativity and Liberal Learning, ed. David G. Tuerck. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987. 76-89.

"Artful Slipping in Old English." Neophilologus 70 (1986): 279-91.

"A New Version of Malory’s Le Morte Darthur: A Book Review." Avalon to Camelot 1, no. 1:9 (1983): 11.

"Speaker and Speech Boundaries in The Wanderer." JEGP  82 (1982): 469-79.

 

Courses Taught
ENG 101,102 Freshman English I, II
ENG 103 Advanced Freshman English
ENG 123,124  Great Books in World Literature I, II
ENG 215 American Literature
ENG 312 History of the English Language
ENG 323 Chaucer
ENG 398 Boston: A City in Fiction
  SF 115 Love, Death, and Immortality in the Ancient World

 

Web Page
http://webcas.cas.suffolk.edu/richman/Richman