Clíodhna Carney is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. Her PhD thesis focused on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. She has taught courses in Trinity College Dublin, the University of Texas at Austin, and NUI, Galway. Her specialism is Old and Middle English literature and language, but she also works on other periods. She has taught courses in Spenser, poetics, rhetoric, Langland, Chaucer, medieval literary theory, comparative medieval literature, Shakespeare’s histories, medieval women’s writing, early modern poetry, and modern literature including Poe, Nabokov, Yeats, Joyce and twentieth-century poetry. She is completing a book on Chaucer - The Profane Poetic of the Canterbury Tales. She teaches courses at undergraduate and Masters level and supervises MA and PhD research. She is currently supervising PhD research in the areas of late-medieval and renaissance literature, and film studies.

Chaucer, medieval poetics, gifts and exchange, Spenser's Faerie Queene