John V. Fleming
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John V. Fleming was the Louis W. Fairchild '24 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Fleming graduated from The University of the South in 1958. After studying at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, Fleming earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, where his dissertation director was D. W. Robertson, Jr. He spent two years as an Instructor of English at the University of Wisconsin before returning to Princeton as an assitant professor of English in 1965. Beginning in 1978 he took up a joint appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature. His fields of expertise included medieval English, French, and Latin literatures, and the history and culture of the Franciscan Order in the Middle Ages. He was perhaps best known in Princeton for his popular and erudite lecture course on Geoffrey Chaucer. From 1995 to 2006, he authored a weekly column in The Daily Princetonian, titled "Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche" (a reference to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales). He served for several years as a Commissioner of Higher Education of Middle States. He was active in numerous learned societies, including the Medieval Academy of America, of which he served as President. In 2006, after 40 years at Princeton, he moved to emeritus status.
[edit] Selected works
- 1492: An Ongoing Voyage (1992, with Ida Altman and John Hebert)
- Classical Imitation and Interpretation in Chaucer's Troilus (1990)
- Reason and the Lover (1984)
- From Bonaventure to Bellini : An Essay in Franciscan Exegesis (1982)
- An Introduction to the Franciscan Literature of the Middle Ages (1977)
- The Roman de la Rose: A Study in Allegory and Iconography (1969)
[edit] External links
- Professor Fleming's bio at the P.U. English Department website
- "A Celebration of John Fleming’s (*63) Scholarship and Teaching in Honor of his Retirement"
- "Professor Fleming's last column" in The Daily Princetonian
- "Four faculty members recognized for their outstanding teaching" (Princeton Weekly Bulletin; June 14, 2004)
- "Fleming prepares for yet another role: Emeritus" (Princeton Weekly Bulletin; May 17, 2004)
