Richard K. Emmerson, Professor and Chair of Art History and Courtesy Professor of English, received his doctorate in English and medieval studies from Stanford University and has taught at Georgetown University, Harvard University, Tufts University, Walla Walla College, and Western Washington University. Before coming to Florida State University, he was the Executive Director of the Medieval Academy of America and editor of its interdisciplinary journal, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies. He has also been an editor of Studies in Iconography and Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval History, Thought, and Religion and has served as the Deputy Director of the Division of Fellowships and Seminars at the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Dr. Emmerson's research is interdisciplinary, studying medieval art, drama, religion, and visionary poetry during the later Middle Ages and early Reformation period. His scholarship over the past decade focuses on the relationship of word and image in medieval English and French manuscripts, literary and devotional. His present project, "Medieval Literacies: Image, Language, and Ideology in Medieval English Illustrated Manuscripts," studies the interdependence of visual and verbal texts in bilingual and trilingual manuscripts, the development of a vernacular iconography in English manuscripts, and the reception of these complex books by various interpretive communities in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Key Figures in Medieval Europe. Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, vol. 13. Routledge, 2006. Edited with Sandra Clayton-Emmerson.
• Antichrist and Judgment Day: The Middle French Jour du Jugement. Early European Drama in Translation. Pegasus Press, 1998. Edited with David Hult.
• The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages. Cornell University Press, 1993. Edited with Bernard McGinn.
• The Apocalyptic Imagination in Medieval Literature. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992. With Ronald B. Herzman.
• Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama. Modern Language Association, 1990.
• Antichrist in the Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Apocalypticism, Art, and Literature. University of Washington Press and Manchester University Press, 1981.

Essays in Scholarly Collections

• "Antichrist on Page and Stage in the Later Middle Ages." In Spectacle and Public Performance in the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Ed. Robert E. Stillman. E. J. Brill, 2006. Pp. 1-29.
• "Visualizing the Apocalypse in Late Medieval England: The York Minster Great East Window." Cross, Crown and Community: Religion, Government and Culture in Early Modern England 1400-1800. Ed. David J. B. Trim and Peter J. Balderstone. Peter Lang, 2004. Pp. 39-75.
• "'The Lord Geoffrey had me made': Lordship and Labour in the Luttrell Psalter." The Problem of Labour in Fourteenth-Century England. Ed. James Bothwell, P. J. P. Goldberg, and W. M. Ormrod. Boydell & Brewer, 2000. Pp. 43-63. With Jeremy Goldberg.
• "Beyond the Apocalypse: The Human Antichrist in Late Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts." Waiting in Fearful Hope: Approaching a New Millennium. Ed. Christopher Kleinhenz and Fannie LeMoine. University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. Pp. 102-30.
• "'Englysch Laten' and 'Franch': Demonic Language in Medieval Drama." The Devil, Heresy, and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey B. Russell. Ed. Alberto Ferreiro. Brill, 1998. Pp. 305-26.
• "Apocalyptic Themes and Imagery in Medieval and Renaissance Literature." The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism, vol. 2, The Apocalypse in Western History and Culture. Ed. Bernard McGinn. Continuum, 1998. Pp. 402-44.
• "Eliding the 'Medieval': New Historicism and Sixteenth-Century Drama." The Performance of Middle English Culture. Ed. Lawrence Clopper, James Paxson, Sylvia Tomasch. Boydell and Brewer, 1998. Pp. 25-41.
• "Divine Judgment and Local Ideology in the Beauvais Ludus Danielis." The Play of Daniel: Critical Essays. Ed. Dunbar H. Ogden. Medieval Institute Publications, 1996. Pp. 33-61.
• "Text and Image in the Portraits of the Ellesmere Taletellers." The Ellesmere Chaucer: Essays in Interpretation. Ed. Martin Stevens, Daniel Woodward. Huntington Library Press, 1995. Pp. 143-70.
• "The Apocalypse in Medieval Culture." The Apocalypse in the Middle Ages. Ed. Richard K. Emmerson and Bernard McGinn. Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. 293-332.
• "'Coveitise to Konne,' 'Goddes Privetee,' and Will's Ambiguous Visionary Experience in Piers Plowman." Suche Werkis to Werche: Essays on Piers Plowman in Honor of David C. Fowler. Ed Míceál Vaughan. Colleagues Press, 1993. Pp. 89-121.
• "Figura and the Medieval Typological Imagination." Typology and English Medieval Literature. Ed. Hugh T. Keenan. Georgia State Literary Studies 7. AMS Press, 1992. Pp. 7-42.
• "Introduction." The Biblia Pauperum Codex Palatinus Latinus 871 in the Vatican Library. Codices e Vaticanis selecti quam simillime expressi iussu Ioannis Pauli PP II consilio et opera curatorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae 51. Belser, 1989.
• "The Canterbury Tales in Eschatological Perspective." The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages. Ed. W. Verbeke, D. Verhelst, and A. Welkenhuysen. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 15. Leuven University Press, 1988. Pp. 404-24. With Ronald Herzman.
• "'Nowe Ys Common This Daye': Enoch and Elias, Antichrist, and the Structure of the Chester Cycle." "Homo, Memento Finis": The Iconography of Just Judgment in Medieval Art and Drama. David Bevington, ed. Early Drama, Art and Music, Monograph Series 5; Medieval Institute Publications, 1985. Pp. 89-120. Rpt. in The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Casebook. Ed. Kevin Harty (1993), 171-98.
• "The Prophetic, the Apocalyptic, and the Study of Medieval Literature." In Poetic Prophecy in Western Literature. Edited by Jan Wojcik and Raymond-Jean Frontain. Fairleigh-Dickinson University Press, 1984. Pp. 40-54.

Essays in Peer-reviewed Journals

• "Middle English Literature and Illustrated Manuscripts: New Approaches to the Disciplinary and the Interdisciplinary." JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 105 (2006): 118-36.
• "Dramatic History: On the Diachronic and Synchronic in the Study of Early English Drama." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35 (2005): 39-66.
• "The Representation of Antichrist in Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias: Image, Word, Commentary, and Visionary Experience." Gesta 41 (2002): 95-110.
• "Contextualizing Performance: The Reception of the Chester 'Antichrist.'" Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29 (1999): 89-119.
• "Reading Gower in a Manuscript Culture: Latin and English in Illustrated Manuscripts of the Confessio Amantis." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 21 (1999): 143-86.
• "Visualizing Performance: The Miniatures of Besançon MS 579 (Jour du Jugement)." Exemplaria 11 (1999): 245-72.
• "The Secret." American Historical Review 104 (1999): 1603-14.
• "The Morality Character as Sign: A Semiotic Approach to The Castle of Perseverance." Mediaevalia 18 (1995, for 1992): 191-220.
• "The Apocalypse Cycle in the Bedford Book of Hours." Traditio 50 (1995): 173-98.
• "'Or Yernen to Rede Redels?' Piers Plowman and Prophecy." Yearbook of Langland Studies 7 (Fall 1993): 27-76.
• "Wynkyn de Worde's Byrthe and Lyfe of Antechryst and Popular Eschatology on the Eve of the English Reformation." Mediaevalia 14 (1991, for 1988): 281-311.
• "The Apocalyptic Age of Hypocrisy: Faus Semblant and Amant in the Roman de la Rose." Speculum 62 (1987): 612-34. With Ronald Herzman.
• "Apocalypse Now and Then." Modern Language Quarterly 46 (1985): 351-61.
• "Census and Bibliography of Medieval Manuscripts Containing Apocalypse Illustrations, 800-1500." Traditio 40 (1984): 337-79; 41 (1985): 367-409; 42 (1986): 443-72. With Suzanne Lewis.
• "From Epistola to Sermo: The Old English Version of Adso's Libellus de Antichristo," JGEP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology 82 (1983): 1-10.
• "Antichrist, Simon Magus, and Dante's Inferno XIX." Traditio 36 (1980): 373-98. With Ronald Herzman.
• "Antichrist as Anti-Saint: The Significance of Abbot Adso's Libellus de Antichristo." American Benedictine Review 30 (1979): 175-90.