Department of English
9030 Haley Center
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849
(334) 844-9085/FAX (334) 844-9027
E-Mail: bertocr@auburn.edu
1995 Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University (English; Minor in Comparative Literature)
1994 Latin Paleography Workshop, Rare Book School, University of Virginia
(Albert Derolez, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, Centrale Bibliotheek,
Rijksuniversiteit, Brussels, Belgium)
1989 M.A., Pennsylvania State University (English)
1986 B.A., Millersville State University (English; History minor), Magna cum laude
Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, and the Commercial Practices of Late Fourteenth-Century London (Farnham: Ashgate Press, 2013).
“Gower’s French Works: Mirour de l’Omme,” in Ashgate Research Companion to John Gower, ed. R. F. Yeager, Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, and Brian Gastle (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), FORTHCOMING.
“Gower’s French Manuscripts,” in Ashgate Research Companion to John Gower, ed. R. F. Yeager, Ana Sáez-Hidalgo, and Brian Gastle (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), FORTHCOMING.
“Applicability in Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale and Virgil’s Aeneid,” in Teaching Pre-Modern Texts in the Post-Modern Classroom, ed. Carole Levin and Anna Riehl Bertolet (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2015), FORTHCOMING.
“Social Corrections: Hoccleve’s La Male Regle and Textual Identity,” Papers on Language and Literature 51 (2015): 269-98.
“The Anxiety of Exclusion: Speech, Power, and Chaucer’s Manciple,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 33 (2011): 183-218.
“Gower and the Canterbury Tales: The Enticement to Fraud,” in MLA Approaches to Teaching John Gower, R. F. Yeager and Brian Gastle, eds. (New York: MLA, 2011): 277-90.
“Chaucer’s Cook’s Tale,” in The Literary Encyclopedia at www.LitEncyc.com
“’The slyeste of alle’: The Lombard Problem in John Gower’s London,” in John Gower: Manuscripts, Readers, Contexts, ed. Malte Urban (Tunhout: Brepols, 2009), pp. 197-218.
“Fraud, Division, and Lies: John Gower and London,” On John Gower: Essays at the Millennium, ed. R. F. Yeager (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007), pp. 43-70.
“’Wel bet is rotten appul out of hoord’: Chaucer’s Cook, Commerce, and Civic Order,” Studies in Philology 99 (2002): 229-46.
“Chaucer’s Envoys and the Poet-Diplomat,” The Chaucer Review 33 (1998): 66-89.
"'My wit is sharp; I love no taryinge': Urban Poetry and the Parlement of Foules," Studies in Philology 93 (Fall 1996): 365-89.
"'Pur Amisté e Pur Franchise': The Theme of Friendship in Thomas's Tristan," in Tristan-Studien: Die Tristan-Rezeption in den Europäischen Literaturen des Mittelalters, ed. Danielle Buschinger (Greifswald: Reineke-Verlag, 1993), pp. 15-27.
"From Revenge to Reform: The Changing Face of 'Lucrece' and Its Meaning in Gower's Confessio Amantis," Philological Quarterly 70 (Fall 1991): 403-21.
The Crisis of Sovereignty: Chaucer, Gower, and the Conscience of the King
The Swelling Flood (novel)
The Mirror and the Memory (poetry)
“Thomasina Percyvale” & "Dionys Fitzherbert" in A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen, Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650 , ed. Anna Bertolet, Carole Levin, & Jo Carneyunder contract with Ashgate Press.
Rev. of Laughing Matter: An Essay on the Comic, by Marcel Gutwirth, Studies in American Humor n. s. 3 (1997): 99-103.
Rev. of Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature, by Jonathan Hsy, Arthuriana, FORTHCOMING.
Rev. of Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising: Poetry and the Problem of Populace After 1381, by Lynn Arner, Southern Humanities Review, FORTHCOMING.
2015 Department of English Excellence in Administration Award
2011 College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities
2010 Outstanding Faculty Member, College of Liberal Arts given by Student Government Association
2006-07 College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Advising Award
2004-05 College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Advising Award
2000 Grad Level II Appointment
1999 Auburn University Competitive Research Grant-in-Aid
1998 Cardinal Key National Honor Society, Outstanding Teaching Award
1993-94 National Endowment for the Humanities, Dissertation Grant
1993-94 Liberal Arts College Travel Grant
1986 Alice R. Fox Award for Excellence in English
“Dressing Symkyn’s Wife: Chaucer, Gower, and the Anxiety of Bad Taste,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2015.
“Money Earned; Money Won”: The Problem of Commensurate Reward in Book V of Confessio Amantis,” Third International Congress of the John Gower Society University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 2014.
“Domestic Rebellion: Gower’s “Rosemund” and the Politics of the Bed,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2014.
“The Success of Walter: Sovereignty and Necessity in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale,” Southern British Studies Conference, Mobile, AL, 2012.
"Deviant Music: The Subversiveness of Public Music in Chaucer's London," International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 2012.
“Exile and Sovereign Power in Gower’s Chronica Tripertita,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2012.
“Chaucer’s Theseus and the Crisis of Sovereignty,” International Medieval Congress, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoon, MI, 2010.
“The City and the King: Popular Revolt in the Tale of Virginia,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 2007.
“’In Deception of the People and to the Scandal of the Entire Mystery’: The Canon, The Pardoner, and Fraud Litigation in Late Medieval London,” 15th International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, New York City, 2006.
"Fraud, Division, and Lies: John Gower's London," International Medieval Congress, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2003.
"Division and Dangerous Speech in Late Fourteenth-Century London," Midwest British Studies Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 2002.
"Sir Thopas and the Romance of the Market," International Medieval Congress, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2002.
"Medieval Scholarship and Classroom Teaching," Mellon Seminar in Interpretation, The Pennsylvania State University, June 2001.
"The Murder of Janus Imperiale: Commerce, Competition, and Civic Order," International Medieval Congress, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 2001.
"'Wel bet is roten appul out of hoord': The Cook's Tale, Commerce, and Civic Order," International Medieval Congress, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 1999.
"Redde Quod Debes: The System of Justice in the Fabliau Structure of Chaucer's Reeve's Tale," International Medieval Congress, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 1994.
"Chaucer's Lyrics and the Language of Courtly Diplomacy," NEMLA, Pittsburgh, 1994.
"'My wit is sharp; I love no taryinge': The Urban Voice in The Parlement of Foules," International Medieval Congress, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 1993.
"Toward a Poetics of Amity: The Theme of Friendship in Thomas's Tristan,"
International Medieval Congress, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 1992.
"Toward a Poetics of Historical Time: The Structure of the Chronicle Tale," International Medieval Congress, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 1991.
"The Mystery of Elaine: The Account of the Norman Conquest in Castleford's Chronicle," International Medieval Congress, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 1990.
“The Blue Rider’s Tale” from Chapter 2 of The Swelling Flood, Auburn Writers’ Conference, Auburn University, October, 2012.
Department of English, University of South Alabama, 2010
Department of English, University of Akron, 2004
2012 Reviewer, Chaucer Review
2004 Chair, “Historical Writings and Chronicles II” at the International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University
2002 Guest Reader for Papers on Language and Literature
1998 Organized session on "Chaucer Reading Boccaccio: The Question of Poetry" at the International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University
1997 Organized session on "Chaucer Reading Boccaccio: The Question of History" at the International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University
1996 Organized session on "Revisioning Chaucer and the Italian Trecento" at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, United Kingdom
1996 Organized session on "Chaucer Reading Boccaccio: The Question of Love" at the International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University
1995 Organized session on "Chaucer Reading Boccaccio" at the International Medieval Congress, Western Michigan University
2012- Associate Chair, Department of English
2012- Chair, Core Literature Committee
2012- Member, English Department Leadership Committee
2012-13 Chair, Taskforce on GTA Workload Committee
2012-13 Member, Core Curriculum General Education Committee
2012-13 Member, Search Committee, Director of Honors College
2011-12 Member, College of Liberal Arts Assessment Committee
2011-12 Member, Search Committee, College of Education, Secondary Education Language Arts
2010-12 Coordinator of Core-Undergraduate Studies
2009-2010 Member, English Department Assessment Committee
2009- Member, Honors Advisory Council
2009 Developer of BA Program in English
2008-2009 Chair, Composition/Rhetoric Search
2008-2010 Advisor, English Graduate Association
2007-2010 Member, PETL Committee
2007-2009 Member, Composition Committee
2007-2008 Member, Composition Taskforce
2007- Developer and Co-Director, AU Summer in London Program
2004-07 Coordinator, Undergraduate Studies
2004-07 Member, Department of English Executive Committee
2004-07 Member, Information Technology Committee
2005-06 Member, CLA Advisor I/II Search Committee
2002-04 Member, Graduate Studies Committee
2001-02 Member, Taskforce for Undergraduate Recruiting
2000-04 Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee
2000-2011 Advisor to Undergraduate Majors
2000- Faculty Advisor, St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church at Auburn University
1998-2001 Member, Great Books Committee
1998-2000 Member, Planning and Priorities Committee
2001-09 Member, Auburn Community Orchestra Board
2001- Co-President, Auburn Chamber Music Society
1999-2001 Member, Auburn Chamber Music Society
Reading Knowledge of Latin and French
