Jim Morey came to Emory University in 1994 after his undergraduate education at Hamilton (AB 1983), graduate work at Cornell University (MA 1987, Ph.D. 1990), a Fulbright Scholarship to Iceland (1987-88), and four years of teaching at Texas Tech. He teaches courses in Old and Middle English, including Chaucer, and his medieval interests extend from Old French and Old Norse literature to the Renaissance, with a concentration on religious literature and the vernacular Bible. Currently he is working on an edition of the Middle English penitential poem The Prick of Conscience as well as on a miscellany of Middle English biblical literature. He is also a core faculty member in the Linguistics Program.

Selected Publications:

• Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000).
  

• "Middle English Didactic Literature," in Readings in Medieval Texts, ed. David F. Johnson and Elaine M. Treharne (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005): 183-97.
  

• "Plows, Laws, and Sanctuary in Medieval England and in the Wakefield Mactacio Abel," Studies in Philology 95 (1998): 41-55.
  

• "The 'cultour' in the Miller's Tale: Alison as Iseult," Chaucer Review 29 (1995): 373-81.
  

• "Latimer's 'Sermon on the Plough' and Spenser's Muiopotmos," Notes & Queries ns 42 (1995): 286-88.