Seth LERER - Ph.D. (University of Chicago) Primary Office: Contact Department Primary Phone: Contact Department Email: slerer@ucsd.edu Website: http://dah.ucsd.edu/dean/dean.shtml

Professor Seth Lerer joins the Literature Department in January 2009 as Distinguished Professor. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago and taught at Princeton and Stanford. His teaching and research address Medieval and Renaissance literature, the history of the English Language, Children's Literature, and the history of scholarship. At UCSD, he will serve a five-year term as Dean of Arts and Humanities beginning in January 2009. Selected Publications: Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985). [Honorable Mention, John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of America, 1989] Literacy and Power in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991). Chaucer and His Readers: Imagining the Author in Late-Medieval England  (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993; paperback, 1996). [Beatrice White Prize, The English Association of Great Britain, 1995] Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII: Literary Culture and the Arts of Deceit (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997; paperback 2006). Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002). [Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association, 2005] Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). Children's Literature: A Reader's History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).