{"id":1753,"date":"2010-04-21T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=1753"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:39:01","slug":"to-caunturbury-they-wende","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2005\/summer05\/quad-angles\/to-caunturbury-they-wende\/","title":{"rendered":"'To Caunturbury they wende'"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Short Term unit \u201cReading Chaucer: A Brief Introduction to The Canterbury Tales,\u201d President Elaine Tuttle Hansen returns to teaching for the first time in a decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow to do any Chaucer in five weeks has been my quandary,\u201d says Hansen, a Chaucer expert whose affection for the 14th-century poet even led her to fashion a previous e-mail address from his name.<\/p>\n

\"\" Her solution to the tight schedule is to focus more on reading Middle English, the language of Chaucer, than on analyzing the tales. \u201cPeople are intimidated by it \u2014 but it doesn\u2019t take long, if you really work, to find that you can read Middle English quite easily,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

One reason that Hansen is eager to teach the course is that she wants to better understand Short Term itself, with its controversial mix of units intensely rigorous, boldly experimental, and wondrously easy. Too, she misses the connection with students that\u2019s unique to teaching.<\/p>\n

But, during this intense year of fundraising and construction planning, she also sees \u201cReading Chaucer\u201d as a kind of oasis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI deeply miss the intellectual activity that goes into preparing a course,\u201d Hansen says. \u201cIt brings me back to things I love to think about that have nothing to do with the routine business of the college.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be profoundly rejuvenating \u2014 that\u2019s my hope.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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