Michael Van Dussen
B.A. (Ohio Wesleyan University); M.A., Ph.D. (Ohio State University)
Middle English and Anglo-Latin literature; global contexts of medieval English literature and culture; medieval religious controversy and heresy; manuscript studies; book history; material culture; literature and law; travel literature; medieval encyclopedism and collecting
Pennsylvania State University; Ohio State University
Louis A. Dudek Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching (2014)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Grant for the project: "English Encyclopedism and European Manuscript Culture in the Later Middle Ages" (2016-2021)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Connection Grant for the "Europe after Wyclif" international conference (a joint McGill-Fordham endeavor, organized by Michael Van Dussen and J. Patrick Hornbeck II, held at Fordham University from 4-6 June 2014)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Insight Development Grant for the project: "Collecting and Curiosity before Print: The Idea of the Archive in Fifteenth-Century England” (2013-2015)
Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), Établissement de nouveaux professeurs‐chercheurs grant for the project: “Crise et contact: controverse et communication religieuses avant la découverte de l'impression, 1378‐1417” (2011-2014)
Books
(ed., with Michael Johnston) The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
(ed., with Pavel Soukup) Religious Controversy in Europe, 1378-1536: Textual Transmission and Networks of Readership (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013).
From England to Bohemia: Heresy and Communication in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2012; paperback 2014).
Articles
"Tourists and Tabulae in Late-Medieval England." In Fiona Somerset and Nicholas Watson, eds., Truth and Tales: Cultural Mobility and Medieval Media (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2015), 238-254.
"A Late Medieval Itinerary to England." Mediaeval Studies 76 (2014): 275-296.
"Mezi Anglií a Čechami: Preláti v Římě a šíření anglických kontemplativních textů." In Heresis seminaria. Pojmy a koncepty v bádání o husitství, edited by Pavlína Rychterová and Pavel Soukup (Prague: Filosofia, 2013), 49-73.
(with Pavel Soukup) “Introduction: Textual Controversies, Textual Communities.” In Michael Van Dussen and Pavel Soukup, eds., Religious Controversy in Europe, 1378-1536: Textual Transmission and Networks of Readership (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013), 1-15.
“Aristotle’s Tetragon: Compilation and Consensus during the Great Schism.” In Michael Van Dussen and Pavel Soukup, eds., Religious Controversy in Europe, 1378-1536: Textual Transmission and Networks of Readership (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013), 187-210.
“Parsing the Peacock: Langland’s Wills and the Limits of Voluntas.” Yearbook of Langland Studies 25 (2011): 77-94.
"Three Verse Eulogies of Anne of Bohemia." Medium Aevum 78 (2009): 231-260.
"Bohemia in English Religious Controversy before the Henrician Reformation." The Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice 7 (2009): 42-60.
"Conveying Heresy: 'a certayne student' and the Lollard-Hussite Fellowship." Viator 38 (2007): 217-234.
"Betokening Chastity: Margery Kempe's Sartorial Crisis." Forum for Modern Language Studies 41 (2005): 275-288.
I am currently editing The Brill Companion to the Hussites (with Pavel Soukup), and I am editing Europe after Wyclif with J. Patrick Hornbeck II (for Fordham University Press). Other current projects include an edition of Richard Rolle's Lamentations commentary and a book project on medieval encyclopedism and library formation.
Michael Van Dussen has directed the McGill Medievalists research group since 2011. He is also the current director of the Lollard Society.