Dr. Douglas Hayes
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Toronto
1st YEAR
- Introduction to Academic Writing
- Literature Written in English Before 1750
- Literature Written in English After 1750
- Foundations of Literary Study
2nd YEAR
- History of English Literature I
- Shakespeare
3rd YEAR and Special Topics titles
- Medieval and Tudor Drama
- Chaucer and his Contemporaries
- Advanced Rhetoric
- Medieval Morality Plays
4th YEAR Special Topics titles
- Medieval Drama: The York Cycle
- Medieval Morality Plays
- Poetry of 15th Century
- Tudor Bibles
- Renaissance Rhetorics
- English and Scottish Popular Ballads and their Afterlife
- Translating the Middle Ages
Graduate level Special Topics titles
- The Scots Makars
- Poetry & Drama of Christopher Marlowe
- Translating the Middle Ages
- Theories of Language, Literature, and Culture
Douglas Hayes works on early English drama with an emphasis on Medieval morality plays and Tudor interludes, and scholarly editing.
His secondary research interests include fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English and Scottish drama, poetry and rhetoric. In addition to his book, Rhetorical Subversion in the Early English Drama (2004), he has edited the poetry of the Scots Makars for the Broadview Anthology of British Literature, 2nd ed. (2009) and Uplian Fulwell's interlude Like Will Unto Like for the Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama (2013) and has also published articles on The Castle of Perseverance and the N-Town Plays, the rhetorician Thomas Blount, the late Middle Scots play Philotus, and an algorithmic analysis of alliteration in the York Cycle.
His current research project, is an edition of Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat for the Middle English Texts series of the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS).