www.davidson.edu Academics English Home Faculty Dr. Gail Gibson
Other Faculty: Anthony Abbott Shireen Campbell Suzanne Churchill   Brenda Flanagan Ann M. Fox Gail Gibson Gill Holland Annie Ingram Randy Ingram Zoran Kuzmanovich Cynthia Lewis Scott MacKenzie Paul Miller Elizabeth Mills Randy Nelson Alan Michael Parker   Onita Vaz-Hooper	Professor Gibson taught for eight years at Princeton University before coming to Davidson College in 1983, where she is now the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Humanities. She is the author of The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages (Chicago, 1989) and of other studies of medieval drama, literature, visual art, and spirituality. She is the medieval editor of the five-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (2006) and is presently completing Childbed Mysteries, a book about late-medieval childbirth as theater, ritual, and social performance. Her teaching interests include medieval and Early Modern literature, women’s mysticism, the cults of saints, mystery fiction, and medieval and contemporary cultural studies. Courses recently taught: Senior Colloquium Chaucer British Literature from the Middle Ages to 1660: The Secret Self Studies in Literature and Religion: Mystery and Its Fictions Medieval Literature Literary Analysis Seminar in Women’s Visionary Writing; Seminar on Cult and Culture; Seminar on Feasts and Fasts: The Literature and Culture of Food; Seminar on the Cult of the Virgin Mary; Seminar on Performing Devotion English Composition: Food as Symbol, Desire and Spectacle Cultures and Civilizations Home | Faculty | The English Major | Course Offerings Writing At Davidson | The Writing Center | Financial Support Honors Program | Film Studies | Study Abroad