English Department Faculty
Eric Weiskott
Professor; Director, Honors Program
Eric Weiskott
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall S407
Telephone: 617-552-3718
Email: weiskott@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Wesleyan University
- Ph.D., Yale University
Research Interests
poetry and poetics; poetic meter; periodization; lyric; manuscript studies and textual editing; fourteenth-century literature; contemporary American poetry.
Department
Monographs
- (Fordham University Press, forthcoming)
- (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
- (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Scholarly Editions
- with the assistance of Celia Smithmier, 鈥�The Death of Blanche the Duchess,鈥� in The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge University Press, under contract)
- ed. Eric Weiskott听(Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2025)
Book-length poetry/translation
- Sisyphus the Completist (Sagging Meniscus, forthcoming)
- 听(North Haven, CT: punctum books, 2024)
Edited Collections
- with Irina Dumitrescu,听听(Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2019)
- with Stephanie L. Batkie, 鈥�,鈥澨�Yearbook of Langland Studies听32 (2018): 237-389
- with Natalie Gerber, 鈥�,鈥� in听Arcade: Literature, Humanities, and the World听(launched December 2018)
Articles
- 鈥淏ob Dylan鈥檚 鈥榰ltimately inapprehensible鈥� Career: 鈥楳urder Most Foul鈥� and the Loss of History,鈥� Studies in Popular Culture (forthcoming)
- 鈥淓诲颈迟颈苍驳 Piers Plowman A: What Use To Make of Manuscript M?鈥� Textual Cultures (forthcoming)
- 鈥淧eriodization and Disciplinarity: On 鈥楳edieval Studies,鈥欌赌� Speculum (forthcoming)
- with Gina Case, 鈥淎 Re-edition and Reading of a Middle English Alliterative Prophecy,鈥� Studies in Philology (forthcoming)
- with Joe Stadolnik, 鈥淎 Middle English Poem in the Reynard Tradition,鈥� Modern Philology 124 (2026)
- 鈥淧roblems in Beat Prosody: The Middle English Alliterative A-verse,鈥� Studies in Philology 123 (2026)
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Chaucer Review听61 (2026): 22-40
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Journal of Medieval Latin听36 (2026): 177-96
- 鈥淭he Grammar-School auctores, Latin Verse Form, and Ricardian Poetry,鈥� New Medieval Literatures 26 (2026): 35-68
- 鈥淭he Authenticity of the Rubrics in the A-text of Piers Plowman,鈥� Medium 脝vum听94 (2025): 345-62
- 鈥�,鈥� Critical Quarterly听67.1 (2025): 72-100
- 鈥溾赌� Modern Philology听123 (2025): 87-102
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Mediaevalia听46 (2025): 298-322
- 鈥溾�� [review of Rebecca M. Rush, The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021); Matthew Kilbane, The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024); Naomi Levine, The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024); and Peter Miller, Poetry, Sound, and the Matter of Prosody, 1800-2000 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025)], Exemplaria 37 (2025): 290-307
- 鈥�,鈥� Modern Language Review 120 (2025): 469-83
- 鈥�,鈥� Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 126.2 (2025): 93-105
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Journal of English and Germanic Philology听123 (2024): 137-56
- 鈥�,鈥澨�postmedieval听15 (2024): 329-46
- 鈥�,鈥澨�English Studies 105 (2024): 529-35
- 鈥�,鈥澨�ELH听91 (2024): 629-62
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Essays in Criticism听74 (2024): 422-48
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听71 (2024): 287-95
- 鈥�,鈥� Leeds Medieval Studies听4 (2024): 19-28
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America听118 (2024): 559-91
- 鈥�,鈥� The Mediaeval Journal 13.1 ([2026 for] 2023): 103-16
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Chaucer Review听58 (2023): 208-31
- 鈥溾赌�,鈥澨�Studies in the Age of Chaucer听45 (2023): 205-46
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Studia Neophilologica听95 (2023): 307-17
- 鈥溾�澨�English Studies听103 (2022): 547-54
- 鈥溾�澨�English Studies听103 (2022): 777-86
- 鈥溾�澨�Studia Metrica et Poetica 9.2 (2022): 117-32
- 鈥�,鈥澨�New Literary History听52 (2021): 169-88
- with Ian Cornelius, 鈥�,鈥澨�Language and Literature 30 (2021): 249-75
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Notes and Queries听67听(2020): 340-47
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Studies in Philology听117 (2020): 225-39
- 鈥�,鈥澨�postmedieval听10 (2019): 8-21
- 鈥�,鈥澨�English Studies听100 (2019): 591-603
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Viator听50 (2019): 207-47
- with Stephanie L. Batkie, 鈥�,鈥澨�Yearbook of Langland Studies听32听(2018): 237-44 (for 鈥淐haucer鈥檚 Langland鈥� essay cluster, as above)
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Hopkins Quarterly听45 (2018): 101-18
- 鈥�,鈥� ELH 84 (2017): 259-85
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Studia Metrica et Poetica听4 (2017): 41-65听
- 鈥�,鈥� Studies in Philology 114 (2017): 245-77
- 鈥淎 New Text of the Marvels of Merlin,鈥� Journal of the Early Book Society 19 (2016): 227-39
- 鈥�,鈥� Modern Language Quarterly 77 (2016): 473-98
- 鈥�,鈥� Anglia 134 (2016): 587-603
- 鈥�,鈥� Yearbook of Langland Studies 30 (2016): 123-73
- 鈥�,鈥� Review of English Studies 67 (2016): 21-41
- 鈥�,鈥� Language and Literature 25 (2016): 328-42
- 鈥�,鈥� Yearbook of Langland Studies 29 (2015): 151-75
- 鈥�,鈥� Neophilologus 99 (2015): 143-150
- 鈥�,鈥� Anglo-Saxon England 44 (2015): 95-130
- 鈥�,鈥� Chaucer Review 47 (2013): 323-36
- 鈥�,鈥� Modern Philology 110 (2013): 441-58
- 鈥�,鈥� Journal of English and Germanic Philology 111 (2012): 25-41
Book Chapters
- 鈥淓nglish Prophecy Books: Genre, Compilation, Periodization,鈥澨齣n听Poetics before Modernity: Literary Theory in the West from Antiquity to 1700, ed. Vladimir Brljak and Micha Lazarus (Oxford University Press, under contract)
- 鈥淧rophecy and Verse Form in Witchcraft Drama:听Macbeth听and听Mother Bombie,鈥� in听Early Modern Witch Plays: A Critical Reader, ed. Todd Andrew Borlik (Bloomsbury, under contract)
- 鈥淧rose Form and Poetic Metre,鈥� in The Oxford Handbook of Middle English Prose, ed. Sebastian Sobecki and Emily Steiner (Oxford University Press, under contract)
- 鈥淎ngst and Asymptote: The听Success听Motif in Nabokov鈥檚 Fiction,鈥� in听 ed. Maxim D. Shrayer听(Boston: Academic Studies, 2025), 26-43
- 鈥淩hythm,鈥� in听,听ed. Sean Pryor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024), pp. 133-48
- 鈥淰erse Forms and Prosody,鈥澨齣n听, ed. Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 76-90
- 鈥淐harles d鈥橭rl茅ans鈥� English Metrical Phonology,鈥� in听, ed.听R. D. Perry and Mary-Jo Arn (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2020), pp.听122-44
- 鈥淭he Idea of Bede in English Political Prophecy,鈥� in听, ed. Jay Paul Gates and Brian O鈥機amb (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 270-88
- with Irina Dumitrescu, 鈥淚ntroduction,鈥� in听, ed. Dumitrescu and Eric Weiskott (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2019), pp. 1-12
- 鈥淭he听Paris Psalter听and English Literary History,鈥� in听, ed. Irina Dumitrescu and Eric Weiskott (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2019), pp. 107-34
- 鈥�,鈥� in听Oxford Bibliographies in British and Irish Literature, ed. Andrew Hadfield (2018)
- 鈥淢ultispectral Imaging and Medieval Manuscripts,鈥� in听,听ed. Jennifer E. Boyle and Helen J. Burgess (London: Routledge, 2018), pp. 186-96
- 鈥淧uns and Poetic Style in Old English,鈥� in听, ed. Mikael Males (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), pp. 191-211
- 鈥淲illiam Langland鈥檚听Piers Plowman,鈥� in听Major Authors and Movements in British Literature, ed. Kirilka Stavreva, for the electronic resource听Gale Researcher听(2017)
- 鈥淎lliterative Meter after 1450:听The Vision of William Banastre,鈥� in听, ed. Lindy Brady and M. J. Toswell (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2016), pp. 149-79
- 鈥淟awman, the Last Old English Poet and the First Middle English Poet,鈥� in听, ed. Marie-Fran莽oise Alamichel (Paris: L鈥橦armattan, 2013), pp. 11-57
Public Writing
- 鈥溾�� ADE Bulletin 161 (2024): 44-6
- 鈥�,鈥� Profession Fall 2022
- 鈥溾�澨�Chronicle of Higher Education听2 September 2022
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Public Seminar听10 April 2020
- 鈥�,鈥欌赌澨�Vox听25 February 2019
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Inside Higher Ed听19 November 2018
- 鈥溾�澨�Boston College Magazine听winter 2018: 48-9听
- 鈥�,鈥澨�How Did We Get into This Mess?听30 November 2017
- 鈥�,鈥欌赌澨�Chronicle of Higher Education听1 November 2017
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Fair Field听3 October 2017
- 鈥�,鈥澨�Aeon听15 September 2017
- 鈥溾�澨�The Medieval Magazine听31 July 2017
- 鈥�,鈥� The Conversation 5 July 2017
- 鈥�,鈥� Inside Higher Ed 14 June 2017
- 鈥�,鈥� The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought 1 May 2017
- 鈥�,鈥� Inside Higher Ed 14 April 2017听
- 鈥�,鈥欌赌� The Public Medievalist 28 March 2017
- 鈥�,鈥� How Did We Get Into This Mess? 23 February 2017
- 鈥�,鈥� Times Literary Supplement 19 January 2017
- 鈥�,鈥� The Atlantic 27 December 2016