Faculty in English
David Raybin
- Professor of English
PhD, Columbia University
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Along with occasional courses in Chaucer, Professor Raybin teaches a variety of subjects in early, and sometimes more recent, literature. He has for many years organized the EIU Literature Conference, and in Summer 2008 he traveled to London and Canterbury to direct an NEH Seminar for School Teachers on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Professor Raybin was granted Eastern’s Distinguished Honors Faculty Award in 1993, and he was named Professor Laureate for 2002-2003. He is the editor of Rebels and Rivals: The Contestive Spirit in the Canterbury Tales (1991; with Susanna Fein) and Closure in the Canterbury Tales: The Role of the Parson’s Tale (2000; with Linda Tarte Holley). His latest book, Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches (edited with Susanna Fein), will appear in 2009. He is coeditor of The Chaucer Review: A Journal of Medieval Studies and Literary Criticism.
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