Michael Wenthe

Assistant Professor
Department of Literature

• Michael Wenthe was trained in medieval literature at Duke, Harvard, Oxford, and Yale. His primary research interest involves the staging of othering and difference as expressed in the polyglot, international literature of King Arthur, and his current book project has the working title Arthurian Outsiders: The Dynamic of Difference in the Matter of Britain. He has presented several conference papers on medieval literature (and on comics and graphic novels, another abiding interest), and his publications include pieces on writers from Geoffrey of Monmouth and Izaak Walton to John Gardner and Ben Katchor.

• Degrees

  PhD, Yale University
  MA, Philosophy, University of Oxford