Ian Johnson

Biography

Ian Johnson received his BA(Hons) from the University of Oxford and a PhD from Bristol on the subject 'The Late-Medieval Theory and Practice of Translation with special reference to some Middle English Lives of Christ'. He was General Editor and Chair of Board for the Forum for Modern Language Studies, 1999-2008 and has been a Consultant for Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Ian is also co-director of the AHRC-funded project Geographies of Orthodoxy: Mapping English Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ, 1350-1550 (2007-10).

Research Interest

Ian has published widely on Middle English literature, with particular interests in Latin and vernacular traditions of medieval literary theory. He is also interested in conceptions and practices of translation in the Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boethius and Boethianism (especially English versions of De Consolatione Philosophiae), gender and authority in the Middle Ages, medieval devotional works, orthodoxy and dissent in fourtheenth- and fifteenth-century English textual culture, and the Middle English tradition of Vitae Christi.