Ian Cornelius

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Graduate Programs Director

At Loyola I teach in the Honors program first-year interdisciplinary survey (antiquity and Middle Ages), core courses in literary reading and poetry, and courses in the history of the English language, Old English language, the history of the book, and medieval and early modern English and European literature. My research interests are in poetics, literary language, book history, and the histories of texts. For more about me, see my website.

Education

BA, Washington University in St. Louis
PhD, The University of Pennsylvania

Research Interests

Medieval British literature
Old and Middle English
Alliterative Poetry and Poetic Meter
Textual Studies and Editing
Medieval Literary Education
Latin Grammar and Rhetoric
Piers Plowman
Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy

Publications/Research Listings

(with J. Eric Ensley) “Takamiya MS 23, Its Exemplar, and the editio princeps of Piers Plowman.” Journal of the Early Book Society 26 (forthcoming for 2023).
(with Kathryn A. Young) “Medieval Manuscripts at Loyola University Chicago.” Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies 8, no. 2 (forthcoming for 2023)
“Langland Parrhesiastes.” In Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance, edited by Louise D’Arcens and Sif Ríkharðsdóttir, 111–29. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022
“Language and Meter.” In What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric?, edited by Cristina Maria Cervone and Nicholas Watson, 106–34, 415–24. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
‘Boethius’ Consolatio’, in The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature, Vol. 1: The Middle Ages, ed. by Rita Copeland (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 269–98.
‘Gower and the Peasants’ Revolt’, Representations 131 (2015): 22–51. <doi.org/10.1525/rep.2015.131.1.22>