27 November 2009
Professor Ad Putter has been awarded £357,430 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a project on the verse forms of Middle English Romance. Part of the project will include the making of recorded readings of these romances in their original text and metre, which will enable modern readers to familiarize themselves with forgotten conventions of rhyme and rhythm.
The project will run from 1 March 2010 to 31 October 2013. Apart from Professor Putter, the research team includes Professor Donka Minkova (UCLA) and Dr Judith Jefferson as postdoctoral research assistant. Their project partners are the English Department at UCLA and the Chaucer Studio, who will be doing the recordings.