Research Area(s)
- The South English Legendary
- Thomas Becket
- Visual Rhetorics
- Rhetorics of Narrative
- AI and Rhetoric
Publications
Forthcoming and Submitted
2026 Taylor, Tristan B, “Material Interpretations of the South English Legendary Becket Legend in Early Modern England.” Manuscripta.
2026 Taylor, Tristan B, and Travis Lacroix, “Purpose before Policy: Academic Honesty, Generative AI, and the Rhetoric Stance.” International Journal of Higher Education
2024 Taylor, Tristan B and Kyle Dase, “Visualising the Reading Communities of the South English Legendaries.” ‘Multiplicacioun of manye bookis’: Critical Readings in Fifteenth-Century Religious Book Production in England. Edited by Ryan Perry, Stephen Kelly, and Natalie Calder. Liverpool UP. [Forthcoming]
In Print
2024 Taylor, Tristan B. “ChatGPT and Poetry.” TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments. Edited by Carly Schnitzler, Annette Vee, and Tim Laquintano. The WAC Clearinghouse.
https://doi.org/10.37514/TWR-J.2024.2.1.01.
2022 Morreale, L. G. Sánchez Argüelles, T. Baldwin, E Champeau, P Consagra, M Conway, D Dameri, A de Bakker, C. Fadel, L. Davis, K. Francis, S. Francis, E. Hebbard, L. D. Iacobellis, R. Jaime, S. Kaplan, B. Kozlowski, C. Gauthier, N. Lacarrière, S. J. Lahey, N. A. Lazaro, T. Mahoney-Steel, J. Marszałek, L Meiselman, F. Pedersen, L. D. Pokorny, C. Postal, S. Powell, J. Reppert, A. Siebach-Larsen, S. Strinati, E. Strutzenbladh, and T. B. Taylor,[1] “Transcribing ‘Le Pèlerinage de Damoiselle Sapience’: Scholarly Editing COVID19-Style” Digital Medievalist 15:1, 2022.
https://doi.org/10.16995/dm.8071.
2021 Taylor, Tristan B. “John Dernelly: Haberdasher and Poet.” Notes and Queries, 68:1, 2021. 63-64.
https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjab040.
Conference Proceedings
2016 Vasquez, Adam and Tristan B. Taylor “Adnoto: un etiquetador de textos para facilitar la creación de ediciones digitales.” I Congreso International de la Asociatión Argentina de Humanidades Digitales, Buenos Aires, 2016.
Audio Publications
2021 Taylor, Tristan B. “The Road to Sainthood.” The Medieval Grad Podcast. 6 December 2021. https://www.medievalists.net/2021/12/road-sainthood/.
Other Publications
2024 Taylor, Tristan B and Kyle Dase. “Visualising the South English Legendaries: Dataset (2024).” BodoArXiv, Feb. 2024.
https://doi.org/10.34055/osf.io/qkdhx
2021 Taylor, Tristan B. “The South English Legendary.” The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 August, 2021
2018 Taylor, Tristan B. “Thomas Becket and Reading the Reception in the South English Legendary.” medievalcodes.ca.
2017 Taylor, Tristan B. “Latin Glosses and Commentaries: The Pricke of Conscience” medievalcodes.ca.
2016 Taylor, Tristan B. “What is a Gloss?” medievalcodes.ca.
Select Presentations
2026 “Human Heuristics and Machine Limitations: Teaching Communication in the Age of AI.” Canadian Engineering Education Association, l’Université de Moncton, Moncton, June 13-17.
2026 “‘Grantede wel vawe’ and ‘Dude him wel wo’: Rhetorically Situating the Constitutions of Clarendon in the South English Legendaries.” The Multiple and the One: Assemblages and Decompositions in Medieval Texts and Images Colloquium, Centre d’études médiévales, Université de Montréal, Montréal, March 13-14.
2024 “Unediting the South English Legendaries: Dunstan, Austyn, and Collaborative Textual Editing.” Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, McGill University, Montreal, June 19-21.
2024 “‘R. P. of This Same Town’: Situating the South English Legendaries.” Bibliographic Society of Canada, McGill University, Montreal, June 17-18.
2023 “Visualising the Reading Communities of the South English Legendaries.” Whittington’s Gift Symposium, Queen’s University, Belfast, July 7-8.
2023 “R. P. of This Same Town: Authorship and Audience in the South English Legendaries.” The European Society for Textual Scholarship, Canterbury, April 13-14.
2021 “Thomas Becket and ‘martirs þat hardy kniȝts were’: Images of the Holy Knight in the South English Legendary.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 10-15.
2021 “Roundtable on Becket at 851.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 10-15.
2021 “Excising Becket: Becket Erasure in Sixteenth-Century England.” Thomas Becket: Life, Death, and Legacy Conference, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, April 28-30.
2019 “Material Evidence and Participatory Interpretation: Readers of the South English Legendary.” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 1-4.
2018 “The Romance of Gilbert and Matilda: Genre and Rhetoric in the Life of Thomas Becket.” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 2-5.
2018 “John Dernelly: Haberdasher and Poet.” ACCUTE Conference, University of Regina, May 26-June 1.
2018 “Assembly, Collection, Domain: Textual Editing and the South English Legendary.” Free Exchange Graduate Student Conference, University of Calgary, March 9-11.
2017 “Reading the Book: Reading the Reader” Literary Eclectic Graduate Conference, University of Saskatchewan, October 20-21.
2016 “‘Pila minantia pilis’: Thomas Becket’s Civil War.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 12-15.
2015 “(Un)Knowing God Through the Hazelnut: Re-examining Julian of Norwich’s Theology.” Literary Eclectic Graduate Conference, University of Saskatchewan, October 2-3.
2015 (Un)Knowing God: The Medieval Apophatic Tradition.” MEMS Summer Festival, University of Kent, June 19.
2015 “Theorizing Adaptive Practices: Pretexts and Performance in Arthurian Filmic Adaptations.” Borderlines XIX Graduate Conference, Queen’s University, April 10-12.
Teaching & Supervision
Current
RCM 200: Effective Professional Communication
Past
ENG 111: Literature and Composition, Reading Poetry
ENG 112: Literature and Composition, Reading Drama
ENG 113: Literature and Composition, Reading Narrative
ENG 114: Literature and Composition, Reading Culture
RCM 200: Effective Professional Communication
GPS 982: Mentored Teaching
Research
AI Bibliography Book History Digital Humanities Genre Hagiography Manuscript Studies Medieval Literature Rhetoric Technical Writing
Current Projects:
Material Interpretations of the South English Legendary Becket Legend in Early Modern England.
Purpose before Policy: Academic Honesty, Generative AI, and the Rhetoric Stance
Lambeth Palace 223 and R. P. of Wotton: Localizing Names and Places in the South English Legendaries
Education & Training
2023 PhD, English, University of Saskatchewan, CAN
Thesis Title: “Thomas Becket in the South English Legendaries: Genre, Materiality, and Why the Reader Matters”
2015 MA, Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Distinction), University of Kent, UK
2014 BA, English, University of Calgary, CAN