Professor Bill Friesen







Bio
My teaching and research interests centre particularly upon medieval literature, though I have taught widely across the canon. I am fascinated by literary apprehensions of identity, especially in relation to the Logos as it is understood within the Christian tradition. I have studied at The University of British Columbia and recently completed my Ph.D at The University of Toronto, where I researched traces in Old and Middle English spiritual writings and how senses of spiritual identity are reworked from antique to Anglo-Saxon cultures.

In the past, I have taught at Douglas College, The University of British Columbia and The University of Toronto. I have also published articles in Neophilologus, "The Opus Geminatum and Anglo-Latin Literature," (2010), in Early Medieval Europe, "Answers and their echoes: the Libellus responsionum and the hagiography of north-western European mission" (2006), and in Prolegomena, "Old School Avant-Garde, New Wave Traditionalists" (2002).