Robert Stretter
Associate Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - English Literature, University of Virginia
Area(s) of Expertise:
Medieval and Renaissance English literature; Chaucer; Shakespeare; the literary history of friendship; gender and sexuality studies
Selected Publications:
Stretter, R. (2018) "Friendship" in The Chaucer Encyclopedia. Wiley-Blackwell
Stretter, R. (2017) "Flowers of Friendship: Amity and Tragic Desire in The Two Noble Kinsmen". English Literary Renaissance.(24), 270-300.
Stretter, R. (2012) "Alice Sutcliffe". The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature .
Stretter, R. (2012) "Elizabeth Major". The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature..
Stretter, R. (2011) In Marilyn Sandidge and Albrecht Classen (Ed.), "Engendering Obligation: Sworn Brotherhood and Love Rivalry in Medieval English Romance". De Gruyter
Stretter, R. (2005) "Cicero on Stage: Damon and Pithias and the Fate of Classical Friendship in English Renaissance Drama". Texas Studies in Literature and Language.(47), 345-365.
Stretter, R. (2005) "Cupid’s Wheel: Love and Fortune in The Knight’s Tale". Medievalia et Humanistica.(31), 59-82.
Stretter, R. (2003) "Rewriting Perfect Friendship in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale and Lydgate’s Fabula duorum mercatorum". The Chaucer Review.(37), 234-252.
Selected Presentations:
Stretter, R. Shakespeare Association of America. Seminar: "The Friend" Comes of Age, "Austin, TX" (Zoom) - "The Medieval Sworn Brother in English Renaissance Literature" , 2021
Stretter, R. International Medieval Congress. , Leeds, UK - "Material Evidence: Recognition Tokens in Middle English Romance" , 2019
Stretter, R. Shakespeare Association of America. , Washington, DC - "The Template: Amicitia and Non-normative Friendships in Twelfth Night" , 2019
Stretter, R. International Congress on Medieval Studies. , Kalamazoo, MI - "'Odd Felawes': Friendship in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" , 2016
Stretter, R. New Chaucer Society. , London, UK - "Selling Chaucer: The Draws and Dangers of TV Adaptations in the Classroom" , 2016
Stretter, R. New Chaucer Society. , Portland, OR - "The Promise of Broken Promises: Oaths in Chaucer and the Gawain-poet" , 2012
Stretter, R. Shakespeare Association of America. , Boston, MA - "Passionate Friendship in Shakespeare" April, 2012
Stretter, R. International Congress on Medieval Studies. , Kalamazoo, MI - "The Green Mask of God: Joseph Campbell's Quest Archetype and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" , 2011
Stretter, R. New Chaucer Society. , Swansea, UK - "The Chaucerian Garden as Place and Space" , 2011
Stretter, R. International Medieval Congress. , Leeds, UK - "Rough Weather: The Salutary Effect of Winter in Medieval English Literature" , 2008
Stretter, R. Shakespeare Association of America. , Dallas, TX - " “‘A noble breeder, and a pure’: Pedigree, Procreation, and Chaucerian Adaptation in The Two Noble Kinsmen,” " , 2008
