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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2011}}{{Use Australian English|date=July 2011}}William James Simpson (born 16 March 1954 in Melbourne) is an Australian-American medievalist. Education - Educated at Scotch College (1966–1971)
- Arts Degree with Honours at Melbourne University, Melbourne (1976)
- Master of Philosophy, University of Oxford 1980
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge (1996)
CareerSimpson has worked in academia in Australia, the UK, and the USA, where he has taught medieval Literature. He was a Fellow and College Lecturer at Girton College (1989–1999), a professor at the University of Cambridge (1999–2003), before accepting an appointment at Harvard University, where since 2006 he is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English.[1] Awards- Silver Medal, Independent Publisher Book Awards - Religion category (2008)
- British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize - Reform and Cultural Revolution (2007)
- Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities (2003)
- John Hurt Fisher Prize - “Significant Contribution to the Field of John Gower Studies,” John Gower Society (2003)
- Jane Herbert Memorial Fellowship, Westfield College, University of London (1987)
- Paget Toynbee Dante Alighieri Prize, Oxford University (1980)
WorkHis early work centred on literary analysis of poetry, especially the late 14th century English poem, Piers Plowman.[2] He later worked on Medieval Humanism. In 2002, he published an award winning literary history.[3] His most recent work, "Burning to Read"[4] centres on the fundamentalist Bible reading in the early 16th century. WorksAuthor- Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text (Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1990)
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=zvJQsPjI4TcC Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille’s “Anticlaudianus” and John Gower’s “Confessio amantis”], Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 25 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=J_kTsj6_sGkC Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350-1547, Vol 2 of The Oxford English Literary History] (Oxford University Press, 2002)
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=nJ1lAAAAMAAJ Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text], second, revised edition (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2007)
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=1kiPw4HK-wIC Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents] (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007)
- Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Oxford University Press USA, 2011)
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=z8l-BAAAQBAJ Reynard the Fox: A New Translation] (2015)
Editor- The Norton Anthology of English Literature, General Editors Stephen Greenblatt and M. H. Abrams; “The Middle Ages”, ed. Alfred David and James Simpson (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 1-484
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=_51lAAAAMAAJ John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England], ed. Larry Scanlon and James Simpson (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=q9mQWP4l4fsC Images, Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England], edited by Jeremy Dimmick, James Simpson and Nicolette Zeeman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), xiv + 250 pp. 2005]
- Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature: Essays in Honour of G. H. Russell, edited by Gregory Kratzmann and James Simpson (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1986, 250 pp. 133–153
References1. ^English: Graduate & alumni profiles - Melbourne University
2. ^Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text, Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library, 1 (Harlow, Essex: Longman, 1990)
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_kTsj6_sGkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false|title=The Oxford English Literary History: 1350-1547 : reform and cultural revolution|publisher=}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1kiPw4HK-wIC&dq=james+simpson&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=HJTcT8B1G3&sig=1SAlB9dNcdW96uVPv9_kRiZPwik&hl=en&ei=IZsES7vGJo3a6gO1l8DYCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCYQ6AEwCThQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false|title=Burning to Read|publisher=}}
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