David Salter

Dr David Salter is a Lecturer in English Literature at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. His principal research interests lie in:

• The culture of the later Middle Ages
• Romance
• Literature of traditional religion.

He has also written about:

• Chaucer
• Shakespeare’s religions background
• Anthony Van Dyck
• William Hogarth
• Film and gender studies.

He is currently writing a cultural history of the Franciscan Order in England, entitled St Francis and Cultural Memory: Catholicism and the English National Imagination, which is due to be published by Oxford University Press. David’s recent outputs include:

• Salter, D. (2019). 'Staunch little democrat that he was': Humanitarian sentiment, social reform, and political idealism in Eleanor Atkinson's Greyfriars Bobby. In S. Dunnigan, & S-F. Lai (Eds.), The Land of Story-Books: Scottish Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century (pp. 224-245). (Occasional Papers). Association for Scottish Literary Studies.
• Salter, D. (2018). Animals in Late-Medieval hagiography and romance. In B. Boehner, M. Hand, & B. Massumi (Eds.), Animals, Animality, and Literarure (pp. 73-87). (Cambridge Critical Concepts). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108595278.005
• Salter, D. (2016). Kimberly Johnson, Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post Reformation England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies, 89(1), 152-154. https://doi.org/10.1177/0184767815627766g
• Salter, D. (2015). Michael Murrin, Trade and Romance (University of Chicago Press, 2014). Modern Language Review, 110(3), 781-2.