Dolores Frese

Professor
Department of English

Degrees

B.A., College of Notre Dame of Maryland; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa

Research Profile

Frese teaches medieval poetic and prose fictions, with specialties in Chaucer's Poetry and Arthurian Literatures. In addition to essays and reviews on Anglo-Saxon and Middle English literature published in Chaucer Review, Medievalia, Philological Quarterly, Modern Philology, and anthologized collections, she has also published novels, poetry and short fiction. Her book, An Ars Legendi for Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Re-constructive Reading, won the Hans Rosenhaupt Prize from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She co-edited Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Essays in Appreciation, with Lewis E.Nicholson and The Book and the Body with Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. She has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Contact Information

212 Decio Faculty Hall
631-6655
frese.1@nd.edu