This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reflects the wide variety of contexts in which students encounter the poem and the diversity of perspectives and methods instructors bring to it. Perennial topics such as class, medieval marriage, genre, and tale order rub shoulders with considerations of violence, postcoloniality, masculinities, race, and food.

Peter W. Travis is the Henry Winkley Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature at Dartmouth College. He is the author of two books, Dramatic Design in the Chester Cycle and Disseminal Chaucer: Rereading the Nun's Priest's Tale, and the winner of the 2009 Warren Brooks Award for outstanding literary criticism. He teaches courses in the Icelandic sagas, Chaucer, medieval literature, critical theory, and a women and gender studies course entitled the Masculine Mystique. Frank Grady is professor of English at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, where he teaches courses in medieval literature, literary theory, and film. He has written widely on Chaucer and his contemporaries and is a former editor of Studies in the Age of Chaucer.