David Wallace
David Wallace has been Judith Rodin Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, since 1996, with visiting stints at London, Melbourne, Princeton, and Jerusalem (twice).
David is a Fellow of the English Association, was awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize by the British Academy, and served as President of the Medieval Academy of America from 2018 to 2019. From 2021 to 2022 he was Faculty Fellow at Penn’s Wolf Humanities Center, where the topic was “Migration.” In Fall 2023 he was Visiting Fellow, Warburg Institute, University of London, and then Director of the Penn English in London Program; in Fall 2024 he is back to work at Penn.
David’s long-term, primary commitments have been to Europe and European literatures, to the performance and enjoyment of poetry (especially Chaucer), to Dante and his afterlife, and to helping secure a viable future for younger scholars.
His current research and teaching is expanding collaboratively, as said, from this core Europeanism to mapping nationalisms on a global scale. He is thus editing National Epics for Oxford University Press, with 110 collaborators across the world, and with developmental assistance from Penn’s Price Lab for Digital Humanities.