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Personal profile
Personal profile
Martin Camargo is Associate Dean for Humanities and Interdisciplinary Programs and Professor of English, Classics, and MedievalStudies at the University ofIllinois. He has served as Interim Head of Classics (Spring 2011) as wellas Head of English at Illinois (2003-2008) and at the University ofMissouri (2000-2003), where he began his career after receiving the PhDfrom the University of Illinois in 1978. His research has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of LearnedSocieties, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Alexander vonHumboldt Foundation. He is the author of Medieval Rhetorics of Prose Composition: Five English"Artes Dictandi" and Their Tradition (Binghamton: Medieval and RenaissanceTexts and Studies, 1995); The Middle English Verse Love Epistle (Tübingen:Niemeyer, 1991); Ars Dictaminis, Ars Dictandi, Typologiedes sources du moyen âge occidental 60 (Turnhout: Brepols, l991); and morethan fifty articles and book chapters.
Research Interests
Medieval rhetoric and poetics; Middle English literature
Medieval, Philology/Linguistics/Grammar
Professional Information
Critical edition and English translation of the late fourteenth-century Anglo-Latin rhetorical treatise Tria sunt (in press). Book-length commentary on Tria sunt. Other projects concerning the teaching of rhetoric at Oxford in the late Middle Ages.
Education
PhD, University of Illinois, 1978
AB, Princeton University, 1972
Office Address
107B English Building
Office Phone
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Research Output
Tria sunt: An Art of Poetry and Prose
Camargo, M. (ed.), Feb 18 2019, Harvard University Press. 544 p. (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; vol. 53)Research output: Book/Report › Book
A good idea, in theory: Why Mathias of Linköping's Poetria fell short in practice
Camargo, M., Jun 1 2017, In : Rhetorica - Journal of the History of Rhetoric. 35, 3, p. 239-258 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Epistolary declamation: Performing model letters in medieval English classrooms
Camargo, M., Sep 1 2016, In : Huntington Library Quarterly. 79, 3, p. 345-363 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
Review: S. Wenzel's Medieval Artes Praedicandi: A Synthesis of Scholastic Sermon Structure
Camargo, M., Feb 2016, In : The Medieval Review. 16Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Rhetorical Argument in Thirteenth-Century Epistolary Theory
Camargo, M., 2015, Rhetorical Arguments: Essays in Honour of Lucia Calboli Montefusco. Celentano, M. S., Chiron, P. & Mack, P. (eds.). Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, p. 319-328Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Activities
“'And if a rethor koude faire endite': When Chaucer Met Rhetoric"
Martin Camargo (Speaker)Jan 2013
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Special Delivery: Performing Model Letters in Medieval English Classrooms
Martin Camargo (Speaker)Mar 2012
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Rhetorica - Journal of the History of Rhetoric (Journal)
Martin Camargo (Editorial board member)2003 → …
Activity: Editorial work types › Editorial activity
What Medieval Europeans Talked about When They Talked about Rhetoric
Martin Camargo (Speaker)Oct 2013
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Training in Rhetoric, Medieval and Modern, West and East
Martin Camargo (Speaker)Oct 2013
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk