Associate Professor
Chair of the Department of English

Offices: Walker 413A (Chair's office), Rosenwald 425
Phone: (773) 702-8536, (773) 702-8004
jsch@uchicago.edu

I work mainly in late medieval English literature, with a particular interest in the religious and philosophical strain—and inventiveness—of the poetry of the last half of the fourteenth century.  I do a good deal of work in contemporary critical theory and in philosophy as well, and I have taught, with Mark Miller in English and Candace Vogler in Philosophy, a seminar on "Philosophical Literature."

Graduate: Ethics and Psychology in Late Medieval England; Subjectivity and Embodiment (with Lawrence Rothfield); Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; Topics in Critical Theory; Graduate Teaching Colloquium: The Craft of Teaching; Philosophical Literature (with Mark Miller and Candace Vogler); Foundations of Interpretive Theory (with Candace Vogler).

Undergraduate: Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales; Reading Cultures; Critical Perspectives; Philosophical Perspectives; Critical Theory; Medieval English Literature.

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1974.  Teaching at Chicago since 1971.