Dr. D. Thomas Hanks Jr.

Professor

Medieval Literature

Sir Thomas Malory

Carroll Science, room 314

(254) 710-6892

Tom_Hanks@baylor.edu

Personal Website

Education

Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Tom Hanks, Professor of English, received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His research interests include Medieval English literature, especially the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and of Sir Thomas Malory. His publications include the following:

* "Chaucer, Auctoritas, and the Problem of Pain." "Seyd in forme and reverence": Essays on Chaucer and Chaucerians in Memory of Emerson Brown, Jr. Ed. T. L. Burton and John Plummer. Adelaide, Australia, and Provo, Utah: The Chaucer Studio Press, 2005. 219-236.

* "Textual Harrassment: Caxton, de Worde, and Malory's Morte Darthur." Re-Viewing Le Morte Darthur, ed. D. S. Whetter and Raluca L. Radulescu. Arthurian Studies 60. Cambridge, Eng.: D. S. Brewer, 2005. 27-47.

* "Isode's ‘Sownyng vppon the c­--sse of Sir Trystram' in Malory's Morte Darthur." English Language Notes 42.1 (Sep 2004): 1-3.

* Role of Melibee in the Chaucer Recording Studio CD-RoM, Chaucer's Tale of Melibee, recorded 16-17 July 2002, Boulder, CO. Published May 2004.

* "Epilogue: Malory's Morte Darthur and 'the Place of the Voice'." Arthuriana 13.4 (2003): 119-133.

* "Rough Love: Notes Toward an Erotics of the Canterbury Tales." With Wendy W. Allman. The Chaucer Review 38.1 (2003): 36-65.

* "The Rhetoric of the Folk Fairy Tale in Sir Thomas Malory's Tale of Sir Gareth." Arthuriana 13.3 (Fall 2003): 52-67.