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Daniel Davies

Email: ddavies@central.uh.edu 
Office: Roy G. Cullen, Room 233
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Biographical Summary

Daniel Davies works on late-medieval literary and historical writing, poetry and poetics, the history of pedagogy and scholarship, and cultural representations of war. Originally from Manchester, England, Davies studied at the University of Edinburgh and Freie Universität Berlin before completing his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently finishing a monograph on perpetual war and late-medieval literature and editing a special issue of The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies on ‘Epistemologies of the Archive’ (vol. 56, no 3, September 2026). With R.D. Perry he co-edited Literatures of the Hundred Years War (Manchester University Press, 2024) and with Marshall Woodward he co-directed the public humanities project Space City Medievalism, supported by the Medieval Academy of America’s Centennial Grants Program and the City of Houston’s Houston Arts Alliance. For the 2024-25 academic year, Davies was a Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. He has published essays in Modern Language Quarterly, The Chaucer Review, New Medieval Literatures, Medium Ævum, The Millions, Full Stop, Avidly, Public Seminar and n+1.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
  • M.A., University of Pennsylvania
  • M.A. (Hons), University of Edinburgh

Selected Publications 

  • “Adam Pinkhurst Goes to Berwick? A Life-Record for Adam Pynkherst, Archer.” The Chaucer Review 60.1 (January 2025): 1-8.
  • Co-Editor, Literatures of the Hundred Years War. Manchester University Press, 2024.
  • “Reading the Past and Researching During COVID-19.” The Collation: Research and Exploration at the Folger, April 2022.
  • “The Social Life of the Riverside Chaucer.” Avidly, June 2021.
  • “Medieval Scottish Historians and the Contest for Britain.” Modern Language Quarterly, 82, no. 2 (2021): 149–175. 

Honors, Awards and Grants Received

  • Solmsen Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW Madison
  • Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Centennial Grant, Medieval Academy of America
  • Let Creativity Happen Program, Houston Arts Alliance
  • RISE Grant, University of Houston
  • William Lee Pryor College Professorship in English, University of Houston
  • Huntington Library Exchange Fellowship, Jesus College, University of Oxford 
  • CLASS Book Completion, University of Houston
  • Short-term Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library 
  • Thouron Award

Classes Taught

Undergraduate:

  • ENGL 2330: Poetry of War
  • ENGL 3301: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • ENGL 4396: War and Representation

Graduate:

  • ENGL 6362: Middle English
  • ENGL 7380: History of Poetry and Poetics (Postclassicisms)
  • ENGL 8392: Premodern Poetics

Research Interests 

  • Late-Medieval Literature and Culture
  • History Writing and Historiography
  • Material Texts and Manuscript Studies
  • The History of Pedagogy and Scholarship
  • Classical Reception
  • Poetics

Current Book Projects

  • Under Siege: Perpetual War and Late Medieval English Literature