Georgiana Donavin
She/Her/Hers
FULL-TIME FacultyProfessor
English
Phone: 801.832.2371
Email: gdonavin@westminsteru.edu
Office Location: Foster Hall 407
Office Hours: W, 12:00-2:00 PM
Degrees:
Ph.D. University of Oregon
M.A. California St Univ -Sacramento
B.A. California St Univ -Sacramento
About
Georgiana Donavin, PhD, is an expert on late medieval England and its trilingual literature. She is particularly interested in medieval rhetorical methods for teaching composition and interpreting texts, and her latest single-authored book, John Gower’s Rhetoric: Classical Authority, Biblical Ethos, and Renaissance Receptions, applies rhetorical frameworks to poems in Middle English, French, and Latin. At Westminster University, Donavin teaches courses in mythology, research methods, medieval literature, and Latin language. She particularly enjoys mentoring students in ancient languages and in their own creative and scholarly achievements. As co-director of The Gower Project, a digital humanities initiative centered on the fourteenth-century poet John Gower, she works to make the joys of medieval studies accessible to all.
Interests
Medieval studies, history of rhetoric, manuscripts and media, gender theory, and Latin language
Areas of Expertise
Late medieval England
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