Siegfried Wenzel has written widely on medieval vices and virtues as well as on Chaucer, Langland, and many aspects of Middle English literature. Having been a Guggenheim Fellow twice and recipient of fellowships from ACLS and NEH, he has edited several Latin texts with translations (including a Franciscan handbook of preaching material) and recently published Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric.
He serves on advisory boards to several projects in medieval English literature and chairs the Chaucer Library Committee. His research in sermon manuscripts led to a book-length study of macaronic or bilingual texts from late medieval England, which was published in 1994.
Doctoral Dissertations Chaired
1991
Joanne Despres
"Translation Techniques in the Romances of William Caxton"
Susan Yager
"Visual Perception in Chaucer"
1986
Richard Newhauser
"The Image of Avarice in Late Medieval English Literature"
1980
Sharon Hiltz
"De Amore et Dilectione Dei Et Proximi Et Aliarum Rerum Et De Forma Vitae"
Grace Geoghegan Wilson
"Malory and English Romance"
1977
Judith Shaw
"Gower's Art of Adapting tales to the Thematic Structure of the "Confessio Amantis" (Books I-III)"