RICHARD ZEIKOWITZ

Professor Zeikowitz received his M.A. from Queens College, CUNY and his Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center, CUNY. Before coming to John Jay in 2004, he taught for several years at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. His areas of interest are late medieval literature, particularly chivalric texts, Chaucer, theories of gender and sexuality, and cultural texts of the 1920s and 1930s. He is also interested in applying contemporary film theory to the reading of chivalric romances and hopes one day to write a screenplay for Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde . Professor Zeikowitz is the author of Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century (Palgrave, 2003). His articles on medieval and modern texts have appeared in College English , The Dalhousie Review , and College Literature . He is currently interested in examining correspondence between W. H. Auden, E. M Forster, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender during the 1930s.