Rita
Copeland
University of Pennsylvania
Ruth Meltzer Fellowship
Research Topic
Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Theories of the Emotions in the 13th Century
Bio
Rita Copeland is Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages: Academic Traditions and Vernacular Texts (1991/1995); and Pedagogy, Intellectuals, and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages: Lollardy and Ideas of Learning (2001). In the spring, Copeland will examine Aristotle’s rhetoric and theories of the emotions in the thirteenth century.
