Robert Edwards

Robert Edwards is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University's Department of Comparative Literature. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Riverside (1972), an M.A. (1969), and an A.B. in English (1968), complemented by studies at UC Berkeley's Latin Workshop (1968).

His research focuses on Medieval Literature and Book History and Textual Studies. Current projects include co-editing Oxford History of Poetry in English, Volume 2: 1100-1400 with Helen Cooper and preparing a Cambridge University Press edition of Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.

Notable publications include works such as Invention and Authorship in Medieval England, Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity, and studies on medieval drama and narrative. No specific awards are listed in the provided text.

No grants or advisee information is explicitly mentioned. His academic contributions are centered on textual analysis and medieval literary traditions.