Kathy Cawsey
Professor

Email: kathy.cawsey@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-6903
Mailing Address:
Room 3198, McCain Building, 6135 University Avenue
PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
Research Topics:PO BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Medieval Literature 1350-1500
- Chaucer
- Malory
- Arthurian Literature
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Medievalism
- Modern Fantasy
- Middle English Literature
- Sexualized violence in Middle English Romance
Education
- BA (Wilfrid Laurier)
- MPhil (Oxford)
- PhD (University of Toronto)
Prof. Cawsey is the recipient of the 2021 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching.
My broader research includes most Later Middle English writing, such as Chaucer, Malory, Margery Kempe, the cycle dramas, and medieval romances; as well as modern medievalist fantasy such as J.R.R. Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay.
Selected Publications:
Books:
- , co-edited with Elizabeth Edwards. Broadview Press, 2024.
- , Boydell & Brewer, 2020.
- Ashgate Press, 2010.
Other publications:
- Guest editor. Florilegium 38, 2025 (for 2021).
- Florilegium, 38, 2025 (for 2021), 72-88.
- ” New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession. 2.2. Fall 2021.
- Tolkien Studies 14 (2017): 53-69.
- Arthuriana 25.2 (2015): 67-83.