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
Faculty of Arts Award for Distinction in Research (2019)
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 J. Patrick Hornbeck II), Europe After Wyclif (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017).
(ed., with Michael Johnston) The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2015; paperback 2017).
(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
"Things." In Peter Brown, ed., A New Companion to Chaucer (Oxford: Blackwell, 2019), 475-486.
"Richard Rolle's Latin Psalter in Central European Manuscripts." Medium Aevum 87 (2018): 41-71.
(with J. Patrick Hornbeck II) "The Europe of Wycliffism." In J. Patrick Hornbeck II and Michael Van Dussen, eds., Europe After Wyclif (New York: Fordham University Press, 2017), 1-10.
(with Michael Johnston) "Manuscripts and Cultural History." In Michael Johnston and Michael Van Dussen, eds., The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 1-16.
"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) “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). Other current projects include an edition of Richard Rolle's Lamentations commentary and a book project on medieval encyclopedism and fifteenth-century English intellectuals.
Michael Van Dussen has directed the McGill Medievalists research group since 2011. He is also the current director of the Lollard Society.