Arthur Bahr
Professor
Literature Section
Arthur Bahr studies medieval literature, and especially enjoys reading old books as if they were poems: that is, for how their constituent parts (texts and pages of a manuscript, like lines and stanzas of a poem) work together to create a whole that is more interesting than any of those parts would be in isolation. More fancily put, he blends formalist and materialist approaches in order to find literary resonance in the physical particularities of medieval manuscripts.
