James Paxson
Associate Professor
James Paxson, who holds his MA from the University of Toronto and his PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, teaches courses in medieval literature and literary theory. He also teaches and conducts research in literature and science, serving in addition as organizing co-chair of the 1998 annual conference for the Society for Literature and Science.
Professor Paxson’s main research interests include theory of allegory and narrative, and he has published in Studies in Iconography, Mediaevalia, the minnesota review, Symploke, Criticism, Rhetorica, The Yearbook of Langland Studies, Configurations, and Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
He is author of The Poetics of Personification (Cambridge, 1994) and has co-edited two collections, Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid Through Chaucer (Susquehanna/AUP, 1998) and The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens (Boydell & Brewer, 1998). He is working on a book entitled Theory’s Master Tropes and the Institutional Imaginary. Paxson is also Associate Editor of EXEMPLARIA: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4212
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 244
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <jpaxson@ufl.edu>