PIMSPontifical Institute
of
Mediaeval Studies

Benjamin Barootes received his PhD in English Literature from McGill University in 2015, having written a dissertation entitled “The Poetics of the Elegiac Dream Vision in Middle English Literature.” His most recent publication is “’In fourme of speche is chaunge’: Final –e in Troilus and Criseyde II.22–28,” The Chaucer Review 53.1 (2018): 102–11. He has a monograph in preparation, The Elegiac Dream Vision, 1340–1500. As a Mellon Fellow, Dr Barootes will work on “Devotion to the Holy Name in the West Midlands, 1375–1425: The Material Evidence.”