College English is the professional journal for the college scholar-teacher. CE publishes articles about literature, rhetoric-composition, critical theory, creative writing theory and pedagogy, linguistics, literacy, reading theory, pedagogy, and professional issues related to the teaching of English. Each issue also includes opinion pieces, review essays, and letters from readers. Contributions may work across traditional field boundaries; authors represent the full range of institutional types. (Published September, November, January, March, May, and July)
Editor: John Schilb
Indiana University, Bloomington
Contact: coleng@indiana.edu
"Trauma theory has been and continues to be important to critical work in every period of literary study. This essay argues that the subtle literary strategies of one fourteenth-century poem can help to address a blockage about representation current in that theory."p. 227 of Patricia Clare Ingham's "Chaucer's Haunted Aesthetics: Mimesis and Trauma in TROILUS AND CRISEYDE"