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Daniel Davies is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. His research explores the intersections of late-medieval literature, cultural representations of war, and manuscript studies, with a focus on how texts mediate historical conflict and political contexts. He currently leads the book project Everyday War: Empire, Nation, and the Making of Medieval Wartime and co-edited the 2024 volume Literatures of the Hundred Years War.
Education:
- Ph.D. and M.A. from University of Pennsylvania
- M.A. (Hons) from University of Edinburgh
Research Interests: Davies investigates the material and intellectual afterlives of medieval texts through archival scholarship. His work spans war poetry, Trojan romances, historical chronicles, and the history of pedagogy, emphasizing how literary forms like Chaucer's sieges reflect enduring sociopolitical tensions. He challenges Anglo-French scholarly frameworks by examining Scottish perspectives on medieval conflicts.
Publications: His 12 recent works (2017-2025) predominantly analyze medieval warfare's literary dimensions, manuscript transmission, and national identity formation. Key themes include siege narratives in Chaucer, digitization of medieval sources, Scottish historiography, and the Hundred Years War's transnational literatures. Publications appear in venues like Modern Language Quarterly and Manchester University Press.
Awards and Grants:
- William Lee Pryor College Professorship (UH)
- Huntington Fellowship (Oxford)
- Folger Shakespeare Library Fellowship
- Thouron Award
- Strathmartine Trust Research Grant
- R.W. Southern Prize
Teaching and Advising: He teaches undergraduate courses on Poetry of War (ENGL 2330) and graduate seminars on Middle English (ENGL 6362) and Premodern Poetics (ENGL 8392). His pedagogy connects medieval texts to contemporary methodologies.
