CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor and Head 
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
 

Office Telephone:	(217) 333-2390
Office Fax:	(217) 333-4321
Active email:	mcamargo@uiuc.edu
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SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
History of rhetoric, especially in late-medieval England; medieval rhetoric and poetics; Middle English literature
 

Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
I am currently working on a critical edition of an art of poetry and prose known as "Tria sunt" and on a comprehensive study of rhetorical instruction at Oxford in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. A recent publication related to the first project is "Tria sunt: The Long and the Short of Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi" (Speculum 1999). A recent publication related to the latter is "If You Can't Join Them,
Beat Them or When Grammar Met Business Writing (in Fifteenth-Century Oxford)," in Letter Writing Manuals from Antiquity to the Present (University of South Carolina Press, 2007). A recent publication that illustrates my work on Middle English literature is "Time as Rhetorical Topos in Chaucer's Poetry" in Medieval Rhetoric: A Casebook (Routledge, 2004).

WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
The texts I study are written in Latin, a combination of Latin and Anglo-Norman French, or A-N French by persons whose native language was English.

History of the Medieval Book:
Much of my research is based in manuscript materials and employs palaeographical and codicological methods.

Medieval Chronicle Studies:
 

Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Co-director of dissertation:

Kathie Gossett, "Rhetorical analogies between medieval and contemporary
multimodal compositions"

Committee member:

Lesley Allen, "St. Edmund and the English nation"
Amity Reading, "The Vercelli Book and Anglo-Saxon conceptions of self"

STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, for the future, I would be interested in staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions.

MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Next semester I will teach a course on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (as Head I teach one course per year).
In the past three yeas I have taught two graduate seminars:
Medieval Literary Theory
The Pearl Poet