David Salter
Lecturer
- English Literature
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Room 2.02
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Availability
Office Hour: Thursday 12.00-1.00
Background
David's research covers a number of different historical periods and literary and artistic forms, although he principally works on the culture of the later Middle Ages and early modern period, focusing in particular on the relationship between religion and literature, and the representation of sainthood. He is the author of two books: St Francis and Cultural Memory: The Franciscans and English Natoinal Identity from Chaucer to the Gothic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), and Holy and Noble Beasts: Encounters with Animals in Medieval Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2001). David has recently began work on a new project, which he has tentatively entitled 'Late Chaucer'.
Undergraduate teaching
David has taught the following undergraduate Honours courses:
The Canterbury Tales
Saints and Sinners: Voicing Belief, Doubt, and Dissent in Medieval Literature
The Field Full of Folk
Medieval Romance
Shakespeare: Modes and Genres
Shakespearean Sexualities
Sidney and Spenser
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
David welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students in the following areas:
Medieval romance
Literature and religion
Chaucer
Malory
Shakespeare
Current PhD students supervised
David is currently supervising students who are working on Sir Thomas Malory and William Shakespeare
Past PhD students supervised
David has supervised students who have worked on many different aspects of medieval and Renaissance literature, including chivalric romance, beast fable, religious writing, and history plays.