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John A. Geck

 

Associate Professor

Education

  • License in Mediaeval Studies (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
  • PhD, Medieval Studies (University of Toronto)
  • MA, Medieval Studies (University of Toronto)
  • BA, English (University of Rochester)

Contact Information

  • Office: AA 3032
  • Telephone: (709) 864-8058
  • Email: jgeck@mun.ca
  • Website: 

Research Interests

  • Medieval literary transmissions of high to low culture (romance, drama, hagiography)
  • Medievalist transmissions of medieval to modern (literature and film)
  • Historical and documentary contexts of late medieval English drama and public performance
  • Textual criticism and editing
  • Medieval literary place and space; travel, trade, and other intercultural and interreligious contact; historical geographic information systems (GIS)

Selected Publications

  • Corpus Christi, Corpus Cyborgensis, and the Body Politic: The Passion Play of RoboCop, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (forthcoming)
  • 淚nterrogating Chivalry and the Hunt in the Auchinleck Guy of Warwick. Florilegium, vol. 29, 2012, pp. 117-145.
  • 湗For Goddes love, sir, mercy!: Recontextualising the Modern Critical Text of Floris and Blancheflor. Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts, edited by Rhiannon Purdie and Michael Cichon, D. S. Brewer, 2011, pp. 77-89.
  • 湗On yestern day, in Feverere, the yere passeth fully: On the dating and prosopography of Mankind. Early Theatre, vol. 12, no.2, 2009, pp. 33-56.

Conference Presentations and Lectures

  • 淐ross-Religious Meetings: Relics, Idols, and Conversion in The Sultan of Babylon, Floris and Blancheflor, and The King of Tars. Fifty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies, 13 May 2018, Western Michigan University, USA.
  • 湗Wit lettres of grewe, of latyne, and of 镁e langage of Inde: Locations in Robert Thornton檚 Manuscripts. Medieval Insular Romance Conference, 11 April 2018, Cardiff University, UK.
  • 淜ingmaking and Playmaking in Fifteenth-Century East Anglia: Records of Drama and Performance during the War of the Roses. Fifty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies, 12 May 2017, Western Michigan University, USA.
  • 淐odex Cervisarius: A Pilgrim檚 Guide to the Medievalism of Craft Beer in Quebec and Ontario. Fifty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies, 11 May 2017, Western Michigan University, Canada.
  • 湗Casteles and kingdomes and countrees many: mapping the unmappable in medieval romance. 15th Biennial Romance in Medieval Britain Conference, 17 August 2016, University of British Columbia, Canada.
  • 湗The proude court of Paradis: Explorations of otherness in Middle English romance. Fifty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies, 13 May 2016, Western Michigan University, USA.
  • 淢apping Medieval Romance: An Index of Place-Names in GIS. Mapping Sense, Space, and Time: A Digital Mapping Workshop, 28 April 2016, University of Toronto, Canada.
  • 淢ORROIS: Mapping of Romance Realms & Other Imagined Spaces (Two hour workshop). Jackman Humanities Institute檚 Digital Mapping Working Group, 22 February 2016, University of Toronto, Canada.
  • 淭he Hagiographical Vita Amici et Amelii and the Exemplary Romance Amis and Amiloun. Forty-Ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, 8 May 2014, Western Michigan University, USA.
  • 淢apping the Canterbury Tales. 淒igital Mapping: Tracing the Senses [workshop], 4 April 2014, University of Toronto, Canada.
  • 湗from thennes faste he gan avyse / This litel spot of erthe: GIS and the General Prologue. Fifth Annual Canada Chaucer Seminar, 27 April 2013, University of Toronto, Canada.

Current Research Projects

  • Morrois: Mapping of Romance Realms and Other Imagined Spaces ( )
  • The Elaborated Vita Amici et Amelii : Critical Edition and Introduction
  • Ambiguity and Aporia in Middle English Romance (working title; monograph)
  • Cambridgeshire: Records of Early English Drama (closing editor)

Regularly Taught Courses

Undergraduate

  • English 1192: Imagined Places
  • English 2600: Introduction to Middle English
  • English 3828: The Middle Ages and the Movies
  • English 4601: Medieval Romance Literature
  • Medieval Studies 2000: Cultural Legacy of the Middle Ages

Graduate

  • A Dangerous Recreation: Medieval Romance and the Contemporary Reader
  • Medieval Topographies: Place, Space, and Travel

Honours And Graduate Supervision

  • Middle English romance, drama, or hagiography
  • Medievalism
  • Translations of Anglo-Norman or Latin into English
  • Textual Criticism
  • Literary geographies, topographies (with or without GIS component)
  • Science fiction, fantasy, and horror