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Martin Camargo

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107B English Building

Professor Emeritus

Biography

Martin Camargo is Emeritus Professor of English, Classics, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois. He has served as Associate Dean for Humanities and Interdisciplinary Programs (2014-2020), Interim Head of Classics (Spring 2011) as well as Head of English at Illinois (2003-2008) and at the University of Missouri (2000-2003), where he began his career after receiving the PhD from the University of Illinois in 1978. His research has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is the author of 'Tria sunt': An Art of Poetry and Prose (2019); Medieval Rhetorics of Prose Composition: Five English "Artes Dictandi" and Their Tradition (1995); The Middle English Verse Love Epistle  (1991); Ars Dictaminis, Ars Dictandi (l991); and more than fifty articles and book chapters.

Research Interests

Medieval rhetoric and poetics; Middle English literature
Medieval, Philology/Linguistics/Grammar

Research Description

"The Renaissance of Rhetoric in Late Medieval Oxford": a book about the teaching of rhetoric at Oxford during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, including editions and translations of six Anglo-Latin textbooks from the period.

Education

PhD, University of Illinois, 1978
AB, Princeton University, 1972

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