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Michael Kensak, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English and Modern Foreign Languages (German)
712-707-7039
kensak@nwciowa.edu
Dr. Kensak teaches in the fields of Medieval and Renaissance literature, linguistics and German and seeks to impart a love for words—their texture, meaning and history—in all his classes. He earned a doctorate from Vanderbilt University; his research of Chaucer’s texts within a variety of cultural frameworks has led to articles that interpret Canterbury Tales in light of negative theology, alchemical lore, classical mythography, pilgrimage narratives and medieval ideas about inebriation. His work has appeared in journals like Studies in Philology, The Chaucer Review and Philological Quarterly. He presently is working on two book-length studies, one on pilgrimage literature and one on wine as a metaphor in the Middle Ages.
Kensak is proficient in German, Latin, Middle English and Old English. He has a reading knowledge of French, Greek, Hebrew and Italian and is beginning language study in Bosnian.
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