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GRUENLER, CURTIS, Associate Professor (1997).

Education: B.A., Stanford University (1985); Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Interests: Medieval English Literature, Mysticism, and Intellectual History; The Oxford Inklings; History of the English Language; Christianity and Literature.

Selected Works: “The Point of the Plow: Conceptual Blending in the Allegory of Langland and Voltaire,”; “C. S. Lewis and René Girard on Desire, Conversion, and Myth: The Case of Till We Have Faces”; “How to Read Like a Fool: Riddle Contests and the Banquet of Conscience in Piers Plowman”; "The Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology in Piers Plowman and Its Contemporaries" (in progress); "Desire, Violence, and the Passion in Fragment VII of The Canterbury Tales: A Girardian Reading"; "Dante's Quest for Home."

Distinctions: Lilly/Crossroads Grant (2004); Sluyter Fellowship (Hope, 2000-01); Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant (Huntington Library, Summer 1999); Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (1996-97).