Professor of English and Humanities
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Manorbier Castle, Pembrokehire, Wales
Michael Faletra teaches and writes about the literatures of medieval Britain, including Middle English, Old English, Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, Welsh, and Irish. At present the core of Michael's interest lies in the long twelfth century, that crossroads of the Middle Ages where the rise of universities, humanism, and courtly love clashed with a revival of spiritual traditions, and where the religious and intellectual heritage of Latin Christendom and the vernacular cultures of England, France, Occitania, and the Celtic world came together in a heady mix.
Michael grew up on the South Shore of Massachusetts, nourished and unsettled by frequent prospects of the Great Ocean. He attended Boston University, where he majored in English and minored in Italian, and then moved up Commonwealth Avenue to Boston College, where he obtained his doctorate in English, with a focus on medieval literature, in 2000. He has has driven cross-country several times, has been to thirty-nine states and five foreign countries, and now lives in a green corner of Portland, Oregon, with his family and a dog named Pseudo-Nennia.
Michael is Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. He is currently also the chair of the English Department. When not at home or in the classroom, he enjoys exploring Oregon waterfalls, Portland coffee shops, Powells Books, English parish churches, and Welsh castles. To review Michael's curriculum vitae, please click here.
Gwell dysg na golud.