College position(s)
Director of Studies, Fellow
Subject
English
Dr James Wade
Jane Elizabeth Martin Official Fellow
Degrees, Awards and Prizes
MA, PhD
Research themes
James Wade's work explores the entanglements of literature, folklore, and song from the Middle Ages forward. He is the author of Fairies in Medieval Romance, and the editor of the fifteenth-century English romance Sir Torrent of Portingale. He has published articles on English literature from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Shakespeare, including several on Sir Thomas Malory’s monumental prose romance Le Morte Darthur.
He has written on medieval minstrels and live comedy: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/bawdy-bard-act-discovered-revealing-fifteenth-century-roots-of-british-comedy
And, with Seb Falk, on the lost ‘Song of Wade’: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song-of-wade-lost-english-legend-decoded
Responsibilities
I teach the literature of the Middle Ages. This includes the ‘Early Medieval’ (1066-1350) and ‘Late Medieval’ (1300-1550) papers in Part I, and papers on ‘Chaucer’ and the ‘Medieval Supernatural’ in Part II, along with the medieval elements of the ‘Tragedy’ and ‘Lyric’ papers. I also teach the Part I Shakespeare paper, and ‘Practical Criticism and Critical Practice’ across all three years of the undergraduate course.
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