William Elford Rogers

Bennette E. Geer Professor of Literature

Department of English
Furman University
Greenville, SC 29613

Riley Hall 109L

864-294-3156

Fax: 864-294-2224

E-mail: bill.rogers@furman.edu

Specialties

• Medieval English literature
• Literary theory
• Lyric poetry
• English language

Current research interests

• Late-fourteenth-century English literature
• The work of the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce

Degrees

• B.A., English, 1966, Yale University
• Ph.D., Middle English, 1970, UNC-Chapel Hill

Employment

• Department of English, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY: 1970-72
• Department of English, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA: 1972-74
• Department of English, Furman University, Greenville, SC: 1974-present

Courses and Courseware

• Middle English Literature
• Chaucer
• Literary and Thelological Reflections on Vocation
• Modern English Grammar
• History of the English Language
• A Simplified Structural Syntax
• The History of English Phonemes

Scholarly Books and Monographs

• Image and Abstraction: Six Middle English Religious Lyrics. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1972.
• The Three Genres and the Interpretation of Lyric. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983.
• Upon the Ways: The Structure of The Canterbury Tales. Victoria, British Columbia: University of Victoria, 1986.
• Interpreting Interpretation: Textual Hermeneutics as an Ascetic Discipline. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.
• Interpretation in Piers Plowman. Washington, DC: Catholic U of America P, 2002.

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