Research Interests:
Rita Copeland is Rosenberg Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature. In addition to literature, her fields include the history of rhetoric and literary theory. Her publications include Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages; Pedagogy, Intellectuals and Dissent in the Middle Ages; Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 (with I. Sluiter); The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (with P. Struck), and most recently, the Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, 800-1558. She is finishing a book called Emotion and the History of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages, and she is General Editor (with Peter Mack) of the forthcoming Cambridge History of Rhetoric.