Associate Professor of Literature Katherine H. Terrell presented a paper titled “Transnational Poetics in the Selden Manuscript: Chaucer, James I, and the Foundation of Scottish Poetry” at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies held at Western Michigan University in May.
The paper discussed the only surviving Scottish manuscript to contain Chaucer's poetry; it argued that the manuscript parallels Chaucer with the Scottish King James I as joint founding figures of a Scottish poetic tradition.
