David R. Carlson taught at the University of Texas at Dallas, Southern Methodist University, and York University before joining the University of Ottawa, from which he retired as Professor of English in 2016. He is the editor of Thomas Elyot's "The Image of Governance" and Other Dialogues of Counsel (1533-1541) (2018), as well as of The Deposition of Richard II (2007) and The Latin Writings of John Skelton (1991) and, with verse translations by A.G. Rigg, of Richard Maidstone's Concordia (2003) and John Gower's Visio Anglie and Cronica tripertita (2011). The author of English Humanist Books: Writers and Patrons, Manuscript and Print, 1475-1525 (1993) and Chaucer's Jobs (2004), his articles have appeared in journals as diverse as American Journal of Philology, Anglia, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Classica et Mediaevalia, Mediaeval Studies, and Scriptorium, among others. His most recent study, John Gower, Poetry and Propaganda in Fourteenth-Century England (2012), won a Choice 2013 Outstanding Academic Title Award.
