Dr. Sebastian Langdell

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 3308: Divine Comedies
ENG 4376: Radio Lit
ENG 4377: Campus Lit 
ENG/REL 3370: Religion & Literature 

Bio

Sebastian Langdell has teaching and research interests in the following: Dante and the Dantean tradition, Thomas Hoccleve, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, literature and religion, transnational literary exchange, autofiction, and the interplay between music and literature. He teaches both undergraduates and graduate students.

His medieval scholarship has appeared in New Medieval Literatures, Medium Aevum, Augustinian Studies, The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Thomas Hoccleve: New Approaches, SMART (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching), Notes & Queries, and the Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature. He has published two books in the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies Series at 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; paperback 2025). The latter book was supported by fellowships from the Huntington Library and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Dr. Langdell also writes on music, Dante, fitness, fiction, and poetry for a general audience. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Witness, the Vassar Review, Arc Magazine, and Image Journal. He is at work on a third book, a popular history called Dante in America.