n.b. For Each Week, please complete the Reading for that week by the start of Class (6:30pm on Wednesdays)
PDFs of most of the Critical Literature should be accessible via our Blackboard site

How To Use this Schedule:
If you are engaged with the course at the lowest tier (B+/Credit), you need only read the Primary reading
If you are engaged with the course at the higher tiers (A and A-), you need to read the Secondary Lit
Extra Readings are purely supplemental, but may be useful as starting points for Additional Work assignments

Week 1 – Jan 25 – Intro to Class, Chaucer, & the Middle Ages; The Cook’s Tale (97 lines – read in class); Distribution of Grading Contract

Week 2 – Feb 1 – Sign-Ups for Presentations & Grading Contract due; Middle English Workshop & The Physician’s Tale (286 lines)

Week 3 – Feb 8 – Primary Reading: Clerk’s Tale (1220 lines)
Secondary Lit: Masha Raskolnikov, “Queer Consolation: BDSM in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Tale” in Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures ed. Christopher Vaccaro https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526153357.00015
Extra Reading: George Lyman Kittredge – “Chaucer’s Discussion of Marriage” https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/kittredge-chaucers-discussion-marriage 

Week 4 – Feb 15 – Primary Reading: Merchant (1227 lines)
Secondary Lit: Marie Turner, “Sexuality, Obscenity, and Genre in the Merchant’s Tale: The Case of Fabliau“ https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/mert2
Extra Reading:

Week 5 – Feb 22 – Primary Reading: Wife of Bath (1264 lines)
Secondary Lit: Carissa M. Harris, “Rape and Justice in the Wife of Bath’s Tale” https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/wobt1/  
Extra Reading: Mary Carruthers, “The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions” https://chaucer.fas.harvard.edu/pages/carruthers-wife-bath-and-painting-lions

Week 6 – Mar 1 – Primary Reading: Franklin (1812 lines)
Secondary Lit: Tison Pugh, “Mutual Masochism and the Hermaphroditic Courtly Laxy in Chaucer’s Franklin Tale” in Chaucer’s (Anti-)Eroticism and the Queer Middle Ages 
Extra Reading: Emily Houlik-Ritchey, “Emotion, Feeling, Intensity, Pleasure, and the Franklin’s Tale” https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/frant1/

Week 7 – Mar 8 – Primary Reading: General Prologue (858 lines);
Secondary Lit: Jill Mann, Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire, “introduction and conclusion”
Extra Reading:

Week 8 – Mar 15 – Primary Reading: Man of Law (1190 lines) Final Project Proposals Due
Secondary Lit: Carolyn Dinshaw, “Law of Man and Its ‘Abhomynacions’” in Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics
Extra Reading: Cord Whittaker, “Race and Racism in the Man of Law’s Tale”  https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/mlt1/

Week 9 – Mar 22 – Primary Reading: The Shipman (157 lines) & Pardoner’s tale (681 lines)
Secondary Lit: Glenn Burger, “Kissing the Pardoner” PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1992, Vol.107 (5), p.1143-1156 
Extra Reading: Steven F. Kruger, “Claiming the Pardoner: Toward a Gay Reading of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale” Exemplaria, 1994, Vol.6, p, 115-139 

Week 10 – Mar 29 – Primary Reading: the Miller (745 lines); Draft Projects Due
Secondary Lit:
Extra Reading:

Week 11 – April 19 –  Primary Reading: The Knight (2249 lines)
Secondary Lit: David Wallace “‘No Fellawship’: Thesian Polity” in Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy 
Extra Reading: Julie Orlemanski, “Suffering Bodies in the Knight’s Tale” https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/knt2/

Week 12 – April 26 – Primary Reading: The Manciple (362 lines), The Nun’s Priest (695 lines), & Second Nun’s Priest (553 lines) [1609 lines total]
Secondary Lit: Myra Seaman, “Feminism and Women’s Experience in the Manciple’s Tale” https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/manct1/
Extra Reading:

Week 13 – May 3 – Final Projects Displays & Presentations

Week 14 – May 10 – Retraction/end

Finished Projects and Missing Additional Work due during Finals week (exact date TBD)

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