D. Thomas Hanks Jr.

Tom Hanks, Professor of English, received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. His research interests include Medieval English literature, especially the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and of Sir Thomas Malory. His publications include the following:

• The Social and Literary Contexts of Malory's Morte Darthur, Ed. D. Thomas Hanks, Jr. (Cambridge, Eng.: Boydell and Brewer, 2000). Edited collection of essays.
• "Malory's Anti-Knights: Balin and Breunys" in the collection named above, 94-110.
• "Back to the Past: Editing Malory's Morte Darthur." The Malory Debate: Essays on the Texts of Le Morte Darthur. Ed. Bonnie Wheeler et al. Cambridge, Eng.: Boydell and Brewer, 2000. 285-300.
• "Prose, but Not Prosaic: Narration in the Prose of Malory and of the Paston Family." In Parentheses: Papers in Medieval Studies 1 (1999): 35-52. It may be viewed on the World Wide Web at http://www.InPar.dhs. org/ (requires "Adobe Acrobat" software for reading--can be downloaded free at the site).
• "Beside the Point: Medieval Meanings vs. Modern Impositions in Editing Malory's Morte Darthur." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (3rd Series) 98 (1997): 273-89. With Jennifer Fish.
• "Chaucer's Summoner's Tale: 'The first smel . . .'" Chaucer Yearbook 4 (1997): 33-43.
• "Circling Back in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: On Punctuation, Misreading, and Reader Response." The Chaucer Yearbook 3 (1996): 35-53. With Arminda Kamphausen and James Wheeler.
• Cassette tape recordings voicing in Middle English the roles of Chaucer's Nun's Priest (The Nun's Priest's Tale) and January (The Merchant's Tale) in two releases by the New Chaucer Society's Chaucer Studio (1994, 1989)
• "Savour, 'Chaucer's Summoner's Tale, and Matthew 5:13." English Language Notes 31.3 (1994): 25-29.
• "Malory, Dialogue, and Style." Quondam et Futurus: A Journal of Arthurian Interpretations 3.3 (1993): 24-35 (publ. 1994).
• Sir Thomas Malory: Visions and Re-Visions. New York: AMS Press, 1992. Edited book of essays.