Dorsey "Dorrie" Armstrong (born 1970) is an American Arthurian scholar who is Professor of English and Medieval Literature at

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. Before joining the English department at Purdue in 2002, she taught at

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and

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. Her research interests include medieval women writers; late medieval print culture; and the

Arthurian legend The Matter of Britain is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur. It was one of the three great Wester ...

Education

Armstrong received her Ph.D. in

Medieval Literature Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of t ...

from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

in 1998 and her BA in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University.

Works

Her book ''Gender and the Chivalric Community in Sir Thomas Malory’s “Morte d’Arthur” '' was published by

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in 2003, and widely reviewed. Her translation of

Sir Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author of ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, compiled and in most cases translated from French sources. The most popular version of ''Le Morte d'Ar ...

’s ''Morte Darthur : A Modern English Translation'', was published by

Parlor Press A parlour (or parlor) is a reception room or public space. In medieval Christian Europe, the "outer parlour" was the room where the monks or nuns conducted business with those outside the monastery and the "inner parlour" was used for necessar ...

in 2009, has been reviewed and is held in over 4500 WorldCat libraries. She became editor in chief of the academic journal ''

Arthuriana ''Arthuriana'' is a quarterly journal published by the North American branch of the International Arthurian Society. Its focus is on the Arthurian legend. The four annual issues are published in February, May, October, and December. History The j ...

'' in January 2009. Armstrong's work ''Mapping Malory: Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur'', written in collaboration with Kenneth Hodges, explores the role played by geography in Malory's works. Armstrong has won numerous awards for rigorous and engaged teaching style. She has taped six lecture series for

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, five of them on the medieval world and another on writing.

Personal life

Armstrong is the daughter of former

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president, Purdue and Stanford alumnus,

Chuck Armstrong Charles G. Armstrong is an American attorney and former officer of the United States Navy, best known for his 28-year tenure as president of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club, a position from which he stepped down on January 31, 20 ...

References

External links

Biography on Purdue website
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