Department
of English
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112
(540) 231-7753
FAX: (540) 231-5692
Daniel W. Mosser |
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Department
of English |
| EDUCATION |
1970-1972
Reed College
1973-1974
BS, Portland State University (December 1974)
1979-1981
MA, University of Texas at Austin (August 1981)
1981-1985
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (May 1985)
| EMPLOYMENT |
1980-81
Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin
1981-85
Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin
1985
Instructor, University of Texas at Austin (Summer Session)
1985-91
Assistant Professor, English Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
1991-2001
Associate Professor, English Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
2001
Full Professor, English Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Fall 2007
Fall 2008Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
| RECENT COURSES TAUGHT |
Freshman English
Honors English
ENGL 2224
Major British Authors
Survey of British Literature I
Texts & Contexts: Medieval
Medieval Literature
ENGL 4104
Old & Middle English Literature
Chaucer
Introductory Old English
History of the English Language
Senior Seminar: "On the Road with the Wife of Bath and Margery Kempe"
ENGL 5064
Topics in Language
ENGL 5074 (2008) Digital Humanities ENGL 5224
Early English Authors: Chaucer
ENGL 5334
Special Topics: Textual Scholarship
Medieval Lit: Chaucer
(2002) Medieval Lit: The "Matter of Troy" In Middle English Literature
ENGL 5114 (2005) Medieval Lit: Chaucer, Gower, and Shakespeare
| PUBLICATIONS |
"Witness Descriptions." The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM. Ed. Peter Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
"Witness Descriptions." The General Prologue on CD-ROM. Ed. Elizabeth Solopova. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
“Witness Descriptions.” The Miller’s Tale on CD-ROM. Ed. Barbara Bordalejo. Leicester, England: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2004.
“Witness Descriptions.” The Nun’s Priest’s Tale on CD-ROM. Ed. Paul Thomas. Birmingham, UK: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2006.
Mosser, Daniel W., Ernest W. Sullivan, II and Michael Saffle, eds. Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks. (Papers from the 1996 International Conference on Watermarks at Roanoke, Virginia.) New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books and the British Library, 2000.
Articles
"Manly and Rickert's Collation of Huntington Library Chaucer Manuscript HM 144 (Hn)." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 79 (1985): 235-40.
"The Two Scribes of the Cardigan Manuscript and the 'Evidence' of Scribal Supervision and Shop Production." Studies in Bibliography 39 (1986): 112-125.
"The Cardigan Chaucer: A Witness to the Manuscript and Textual History of the Canterbury Tales." The Library Chronicle n.s. 41 (1987): 82-111.
"A New Collation for Bodleian, Digby Manuscript 181." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 82 (1988): 604-611.
"The Scribe of Chaucer Manuscripts Rylands English 113 and Bodleian Digby 181." Manuscripta 34 (1990): 129-147.
"A New Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales." The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers I. Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1993. 75-84. [Reviewed briefly in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 17 (1995): 175-178.]
"Reading and Editing the Canterbury Tales: Past, Present, and (?)Future." TEXT: Transactions of The Society for Textual Scholarship 7 (1994): 201-232.
"The Language, Hands, and Interaction of the Two Scribes of the Egerton 2726 Chaucer Manuscript (En1)." The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers II. Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1997. 40-54.
"The Use of Caxton Texts and Paper Stocks in Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales." In Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake. Ed. Geoffrey Lester. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. 161-177.
"Corrective Notes on the Structures and Paper Stocks of Four MSS Containing Extracts from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales." Studies in Bibliography 52 (1999). 97-114. [Corrective notes on "Corrective Notes..."]
Descriptions of the Hengwrt and the Merthyr Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales. The Hengwrt Chaucer Digital Facsimile. Ed. Estelle Stubbs. Leicester: Scholarly Digital Editions, 2000.
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Mosser, Daniel W., and Ernest W. Sullivan, II. “The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive on the Internet.” Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks. Newcastle, DL, and London: Oak Knoll Books and The British Library, 2000. 211-228.
"The Charles-Moïse Briquet Watermark Archive in Geneva." Looking at Paper: Evidence & Interpretation. Symposium Proceedings. Toronto, 1999. Ottawa: Canadian Conservation Institute, 2001. 122-127.
"'The Chronicles of Saints and Kings of England': Two Occurrences of the Middle English Prose Brut's 'Peculiar Version' in MSS of the Canterbury Tales." The Journal of the Early Book Society 5 (2002): 145-149.
“The Scribe of Takamiya MS 32 (formerly the ‘Delamere Chaucer’) and Cambridge University Library MS Gg.I.34 (Part 3).” The Journal of the Early Book Society 7 (2004). 121-130.
Mosser, Daniel W., and Linne R. Mooney (University of Maine). “The Hooked-g Scribes and Takamiya Manuscripts.” The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya. Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal and John Scahill, eds. Boydell & Brewer, 2004. 179-196.
“William Caxton’s First Edition of the Canterbury Tales and the Origin of the Leaves for the Caxton Club’s 1905 Leaf Book.” Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered. Ed. Susan F. Rossen. Newcastle, DL: Oak Knoll Books, 2005. 24-50.
“The Scribe(s) of British Library MSS Egerton 2864 and Additional 5140: To ‘Lump’ or ‘Split’?” Journal of the Early Book Society 8 (2005): 215-228.
Mosser, Daniel W., and Simon Horobin (University of Glasgow). “Scribe D’s SW Midlands Roots: A Reconsideration.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 106 (2005): 289-305
“Dating the Manuscripts of the 'Hammond Scribe': What the Paper Evidence Tells Us.” The Journal of the Early Book Society 10 (2007): 31-70.
“The Manuscript Glosses of the Canterbury Tales and the University of London’s Copy of Pynson’s [1492] Edition: Witness to a Lost Exemplar.” Chaucer Review 41 (2007): 360-92.
Reviews
Rev. of Charles A. Owen, Jr. The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales. Speculum 68 (1993): 547-549.
Rev. of Writing after Chaucer: Essential Readings in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century. Ed. Daniel J. Pinti. Arthuriana 10.1 (Spring 2000): 146-48.
Rev. of Taavitsainen, Irma, et al., eds. Placing Middle English in Context. Topics in Linguistics 35. Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2000. In General Linguistics 39, 2002 (for 1999). pp. 113-123.
| CURRENT PROJECTS & ACTIVITES |
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| 1982 |
University Summer Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin |
| 1983-84 |
University Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin |
| 1985 |
Outstanding Dissertation Award (University of Texas, May Graduation) |
| 1985 |
New Chaucer Society Prize Essay (MLA Convention) |
| 1987 |
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend |
| 1987-89 |
College of Arts and Sciences, VPI&SU, Pilot Project Grant |
| 1988 |
National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant |
| 1989-90 |
College of Arts & Sciences Travel to Collections Grant |
| 1989-90 |
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers & Independent Scholars |
| 1990 |
American Council of Learned Societies Grant for Travel to International Meetings Abroad |
| 1990 |
Supplemental Grant (Virginia Tech Foundation, VPI&SU) |
| 1990-91 |
College of Arts & Sciences Travel to Collections Grant |
| 1991-92 |
College of Arts & Sciences Travel to Collections Grant |
| 1993 |
Supplemental Grant (Virginia Tech Foundation, VPI&SU) |
| 1994 |
Spring Semester Research Assignment |
| 1994-1996 |
Pilot Project Grant (College of Arts & Sciences, VPI&SU) |
| 1994 |
American Council of Learned Societies Grant for Travel to International Meetings Abroad |
| 1994 |
Supplemental Grant (Virginia Tech Foundation, VPI&SU) |
| 1995 |
Supplemental Grant (Virginia Tech Foundation, VPI&SU) |
| 1995-6 |
Incentive Awards Program Grant to host "The First International Conference on the History, Function, and Study of Watermarks" at the Hotel Roanoke, October 1996 (Center for Textual & Editorial Studies [now CATH]) |
| 1997 |
Supplemental Grant (College of Arts & Sciences, VPI&SU) |
| 1997 |
Bibliographical Society of London Fellowship |
| 1998 |
Humanities Summer Stipend (College of Arts & Sciences, VPI&SU) |
| 1998-9 |
Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship (Lilly Library) |
| 1999 |
Supplemental Grant (Virginia Tech Foundation, VPI&SU) |
| 2000 |
College of Arts & Sciences Millennium Grant (with Len Hatfield & Ernest Sullivan) |
| 2001 |
Supplemental Grant (Virginia Tech Foundation, VPI&SU) |
| 2003 | Supplemental Grant (Virginia Tech Foundation, VPI&SU) |
| 2005 | Humanities Summer Stipend (College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences, VPI&SU) |
| 2005 | College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Faculty Research Grant (VPI&SU) |
| 2005 | Supplemental Grant (Virginia Tech Foundation, VPI&SU) |
| 2007 | College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Faculty Research Grant (VPI&SU) |
| Fall 2007 & Fall 2008 | Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
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