Professor Emeritus
Biography
B.A., College of St. Thomas, 1968
M.A., Cornell University, 1972
Ph.D., Cornell University, 1973
Activities and Interests
Miceal Vaughan's is currently completing his edition of one of the manuscripts of the A Version of Piers Plowman for the Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; he is also at work on a book examining the transmission and reception of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Research
Selected Research
- Miceal Vaughan. “Creating Comfortable Boundaries: Scribes, Editors, and the Invention of the Parson’s Tale.” Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602. Ed. Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline. Ohio State Press. 1999.
- Miceal Vaughan. Suche Werkis To Werche: Essays on Piers Plowman in honor of David C. Fowler. Colleagues Press. 1993.
- Miceal Vaughan. “’Til I gan Awake’: The Conversion of Dreamer into Narrator in Piers Plowman B.” The Yearbook of Langland Studies 5 (1991), 175-92.
Research Advised
- Hardison, Brian Christopher. "Gildas’ On the Ruin of Britain: A Scribal Edition Based on the Text Preserved in Cambridge, University Library FF.I.27," unpubl. Ph.D. dissertation.
- Moore, Sarah Kathryn. "Beste of bon and blod": Embodiment in Middle English Lyric. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.
- Ian Nathaniel James. De historiis sensis: Perceiving Alternative Histories through Medieval Historiography. Honors Thesis, University of Washington. 2014.
Affiliations
Professional Affiliations
International Piers Plowman Society, Medieval Academy of America, New Chaucer Society