Stephen Yeager, PhD
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- Professor, English
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Supervised programs: English (MA), Individualized Program (MA, MSc), English Literature (PhD), Humanities (PhD), Individualized Program (PhD)
Research areas: medieval / manuscript studies / law & literature / Indigenous studies / digital culture / media archaeology / videogames
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Teaching activities
Undergraduate
ENGL 306: Tolkien's Old English
ENGL 307: The Viking Age in Poetry and Prose
ENGL 398: Virtual Medieval Worlds
ENGL 231: Medieval Literature in Translation
ENGL 255: Videogames and/as Literature
ENGL 261: British Literature before 1660
Selected publications
Books
Chaucer's Problem of Prose: Media, History, and the Canterbury Tales (University of Toronto Press, 2025)
Old Media and the Medieval Concept: Media Ecologies Before Modernity, co-edited with Thora Brylowe (Concordia University Press, 2021)
From Lawmen to Plowmen: Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland (University of Toronto Press, 2014)
Selected Articles
With Anna Sheftel. "In the Belly of the Beast: Service and the Future of the Public Humanities." Public Humanities 1 (2025): e12.
“Empire, Shame, and Medieval Text Editing: A Case of Beowulf Line 1382a,” Journal of Medieval and Early-Modern Studies 53.2 (2023): DOI 10.1215/10829636-10416571
“Historical Accuracy,’ Anonymity, and Women’s Authorship: The Case of the Case for Beowulf,” in Feminist Approaches to Early English Studies, ed. Renee Trilling, Robin Norris, and Rebecca Stephenson (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023): pp. 377-400.
"The Global Far North: Planning Indigenization Efforts in Medieval Studies," in English Language Notes 58, no. 2 (2020): 151-166. muse.jhu.edu/article/772655.
"Protocol, or 'The Chivalry of the Object'." Critical Inquiry 45.2 (2019): pp. 747-61.