Dr Malte Urban MA (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), PhD (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), PGCHET (Queen's University, Belfast), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Senior Lecturer in English Literature

Department of English & Creative Writing

Contact Details

Email: mau5@aber.ac.uk
ORCID: 0000-0003-2506-4943
Office: D67, Hugh Owen Building
Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621781
Twitter: @econfessio
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=XexC7GoAAAAJ
Research Portal Profile

Profile

My primary research focus is late medieval secular literature, especially the works by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. My monograph Fragments: Past and Present in Chaucer and Gower (Peter Lang, 2009) focusses mainly on their use and appropriation of their cultural past(s), which also informs a section in my edited collection on the works of John Gower (Brepols, 2009). More recently, I have developed two further research interests that complement this main strand: medievalism and digital humanities. The former concentrates on Chaucer’s cultural afterlives, especially in cyberspace and on screen [in Chaucer’s Poetry: Words, authority and ethics (Four Courts, 2012), while the latter explores the potentials of electronic editing and text mining for our engagement with late medieval texts, using Gower’s Confessio amantis as its central object. My teaching cuts across these three areas, concentrating on English literature of the late medieval period while looking beyond this into the Early Modern period and further towards the 21st century.

Teaching

Module Coordinator

Lecturer

Coordinator

Moderator

Responsibilities

Associate Dean (FASS) for Learning, Teaching and Student Experience (FASS pages)

Publications

Urban, M 2023, 'ReMixing Chaucer in a 21st-Century Undergraduate Classroom', New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 96-109. 10.5070/NC34262329

Urban, M 2018, 'Gower Out of Time and Place', Postmedieval, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 303-317. 10.1057/s41280-018-0095-1

Urban, M 2012, Chaucer in the twenty-first century: some thoughts on digital afterlives. in C Carney & F McCormack (eds), Chaucer's Poetry: Words, authority and ethics., 10, Dublin Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Four Courts Press, Dublin, pp. 146-157.

Urban, M 2012, 'Cracks and Fissures: Gower's Poetics on the Edge', ES. Revista de Filología Inglesa, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 155-170.

Urban, M 2009, Fragments: Past and Present in Chaucer and Gower. Peter Lang, Oxford.

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