Dr. Sebastian Langdell
Associate Professor

Interests
Medieval Literature
Transnational and Comparative Literatures
Creative Writing
Music and Literature
Education
Ph.D. University of Oxford
M.A. University of Texas at Austin
M.St. University of Oxford
B.A. Vassar College
Courses
ENG 2301: British Literature
ENG 3311: English Literature through the Sixteenth Century
ENG 4314: Chaucer
ENG 5312: Medieval Literature Graduate Seminar
Bio
Sebastian Langdell works on later medieval literature. His areas of research include: Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, Dante and Dantean reception, William Langland, Christine de Pizan, the interplay between poetry and religious writing, modes of poetic authority, autofiction, and transnational literary exchange.
His work has appeared in New Medieval Literatures, Medium Aevum, Augustinian Studies, The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches, SMART, Notes & Queries, and the Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature. He has published two books in the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies Series (Liverpool University Press): Thomas Hoccleve: Religious Reform, Transnational Poetics, and the Invention of Chaucer (2018; paperback 2020), and Thomas Hoccleve’s Collected Shorter Poems: A Critical Edition of the Huntington Holographs (2023; supported by fellowships from the Huntington Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities).
Dr. Langdell also holds a master’s in creative writing, and has published short fiction, poetry, and interviews. He has served as Editor in Chief of the Bat City Review, and as Faculty Fiction Editor of the Vassar Review.