Gerald Richman, PhD

Professor
Department of English

Phone: 617-573-8279
Fax: 617-305-1744
Email: grichman@suffolk.edu 
Office: Fenton Building, Rm. 227

 

Education

  • PhD, Yale University
  • MPhil, Yale University
  • BA, Oxford University
  • BA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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)

Boston on the Internet Presentation (2007 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Boston, April 7)

Boston on the Internet Workshop (2007 Suffolk Academic Conference: Scholarship of Application: Integration and Connections, Boston, March 23)

"A Third Choice: Adam, Eve, and Abdiel." Early Modern Literary Studies 9.2 (2003): 6.1-5.

"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