Participants in user focus groups and interviews

Student/
Teacher, ID number & Country
Level of Study/
Career Stage
Specialism
Student, 1 (UK)Year 3 (Honours, MA)– Course: English Language and Linguistics / History
– Historical text editing
– Satire
– Historical sources and analogues
– The Pardoner’s Tale, The Miller’s Tale, The Knight’s Tale, Margery Kempe
Student, 2 (UK)Year 4 (Honours, MA)– Course: English Language and Linguistics
– Historical text editing
– Book history, manuscripts to editions
– Modern and medieval sensibilities
– Medieval uncanniness
– Medieval religion, catholicism and orientalism
– Gender and sexuality
– The Pardoner’s Tale, The Miller’s Tale, The Knight’s Tale, Margery Kempe
Student, 3 (UK)Year 4 (Honours, MA)– Course: English Literature
– Frame narratives
– Gender and sexuality
– The Merchant’s Tale, The Knight’s Tale, Parlement of Foules
Student, 4 (UK)Year 3 (Honours, MA)– Course: English Language and Linguistics
– Historical text editing
– Middle English pronunciation
– Medieval life and sin
– Gender and sexuality
– Influence of other languages
– The Pardoner’s Tale
Student, 5 (UK)Year 1 (MSc)– Course: Applied Linguistics
– Biblical texts and themes
– The role of women in Chaucer
– Themes of greed and sin
– General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales
Student, 6 (UK)Year 4 (Honours, MA)– Course: English Language and Literature
– The role of women in Chaucer
– Pilgrimages
– Frame narratives
– Fallible medieval identities
– The Wife of Bath
Student, 7 (UK)Year 3 (BA)– Course: English Language and Literature
– Frame narratives
– Realism
– Modern-day adaptations
– Troilus and Criseyde
Student, 8 (UK)Year 2 (BA)– Course: English Literature
– Archetypes of women in Chaucer
– Medieval comedy and farce
– The Merchant’s Tale
Student, 9 (UK)Year 1 (BA)– Course: English Language and Linguistics
– Frame narratives
– Humour in Chaucer
– The role of women in Chaucer
– The Miller’s Tale
Student, 10 (US)Year 5 (PhD)– Course: English Literature
– Teaching Chaucer and medieval literature
– Pilgrims and pilgrimages
– Translation
– The Wife of Bath’s Tale
Student, 11 (US)Year 3 (PhD)– Course: Medieval Literature
– Medieval women’s literature
– Political, religious and feminist lenses
– The satire of the Pardoner
– The Pardoner’s Tale, The Wife of Bath, The Knight’s Tale
Student, 12 (US)Year 2 (MA)– Course: English Literature
– Manuscripts (particularly the Ellesmere manuscript)
– Rape culture in medieval studies
– Author biographies
– Medieval satire
– Marginalised identities in Chaucer
– The Wife of Bath’s Tale
Student, 13 (US)Senior Year– Course: English (Research Intensive English)
– Feminist lenses
– The Wife of Bath’s Tale
Teacher, 1 (UK)Lecturer– Focus: Middle English Literature
– Medieval literature in its European context
– Medieval romances
– Fantasy and fairy realms
– Medieval stereotypes
– Orientalism and the East
– General Prologue, The Miller’s Tale, The Squire’s Tale, Parlement of Foules, Troilus and Criseyde
Teacher, 2 (UK)Professor– Focus: English Language / Book History
– Digital humanities
– Historical text editing
– Palaeography, scribal identification
– Historical linguistics
– Global Chaucers
– Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Teacher, 3 (UK)Lecturer– Focus: English Language and Linguistics
– Literary and romance texts
– Spiritual and didactic texts
– Corpus linguistics
– Historical thesauruses
– The Pardoner’s Tale
Teacher, 4 (UK)Lecturer– Focus: Medieval Literature
– Medieval dramas
– Literary and linguistic perspectives
– Politeness
– Multilingualism
– Comedy
– The Miller’s Tale, The Prioress’ Tale, The Second Nun’s Tale
Teacher, 5 (UK)Senior Lecturer– Focus: History of English
– Literary and linguistic perspectives
– Historical pragmatics
– Decolonising linguistics
– Gender and sexuality
– Troilus and Criseyde, The Miller’s Tale
Teacher, 6 (US)Professor– Focus: Middle English Literature
– Gender and sexuality
– Race
– Psychoanalytic lenses
– Social class and hierarchy
– Medieval religion
– Multilingualism
– Rape culture
– Literary and linguistic perspectives
– The Chaucer canon
– The Miller’s Tale, The Reeve’s Tale, Troilus and Criseyde
Table 1: Details of the participants in user focus groups and interviews for the C21 Editions project.