R. Allen Shoaf
Professor
R. Allen Shoaf (BA, Wake Forest, 1970; BA Hon., East Anglia, 1972; MA Cornell, 1975; PhD Cornell, 1977) was the second English Alumni Professor (1990–1993). He is the co-founding editor of Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and a member of the Advisory Board of The Chaucer Review.
Professor Shoaf is the author or editor of 11 books and 82 papers and reviews; he has delivered 73 public addresses (seven plenary) during his career; he has evaluated manuscripts for publication 51 times, and he has served as extramural referee in 50 Tenure and Promotion cases in the U.S. and Canada. He regularly publishes on Dante, Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, Thomas Usk, Shakespeare, Milton, and literary theory. His most recent publication is Shakespeare’s Theater of Likeness (2006). Forthcoming are contributions to the MLA Handbook on Teaching Milton’s Shorter Poems and Prose and to a volume on masculinities in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. He has received two teaching awards in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (1992, 1998), and, in 1992, he won university-wide “Teacher of the Year” honors. In 1996, he was selected Outstanding Teacher in the Region by SAADE (South Atlantic Association of Departments of English). He has won Teaching Incentive Program Awards (two, 1994 and 1998) and a Professorial Excellence Program Award (1996) at UF.
In December 1998, Professor Shoaf won his second Fellowship of the National Endowment for the Humanities (he held his first in 1983). In November and December 1999, he taught by invitation a special four-week seminar on Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde in the University of Berne (Switzerland). In 2004, he served as External Member of the Appointments Committee for the Chair in Medieval English Literature in the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He spent fall term 2005 on a sabbatical.
Contact
- office: Turlington Hall 4338
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 264
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <ras@ufl.edu>