Kathleen Cawsey

Kathleen Cawsey is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. She is interested in the ways vernacular English writers in the Later Middle Ages thought language worked. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled Greynes of Salt: The Image of Language in Medieval English Literature. Cawsey's broader research includes most Later Middle English writing, such as Chaucer, Malory, Margery Kempe, the cycle dramas, and medieval romances; as well as modern medievalist fantasy such as J.R.R. Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay. She is the author of several publications, including Twentieth Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences. Ashgate Press, 2010 and Co-ed. with Jason Harris, Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages: Texts and Contexts (Four Courts Press, 2007).