Dr Carl Grey Martin
Carl Grey Martin is an Associate Professor of English at Norwich University (Vermont, USA) and current chair of the Faculty Senate.
He earned a Ph.D. (English) at Tufts University, an M. Litt. at the University of Aberdeen, and a B.A. at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He specializes in early English language and literature, with a research focus on class, violence, and ideology in works of the 14th–16th centuries: he tries to explore, and expose, the literary and cultural tools that the European aristocracy used to rationalize its military and material power, perpetuating class-based injustices. In 2016 he enjoyed a month’s residency as a Mayers Fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, for work on the poet Thomas Hoccleve; and in 2025 he will pursue a project on chivalry in the work of the dramatist Christoper Marlowe as a Clare Hall Visiting Fellow. He is also a proud member of The American Association of University Professors, now serving a second term as president of his university chapter.
Select publications
- 2024. The cloak and the clog: Tudor portraiture and Sir Thomas Wyatt’s “Myne owne John Poyntz.” Studies
in Philology, 121(1), 28–57 - 2022. The cipher of chivalry: Violence as courtly play in the world of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” In
Laura L. Howes (Ed.), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2nd ed., pp. 192–209), W. W. Norton - 2019. In Agincourt’s shadow: Hoccleve’s ‘Balade au … conpaignie du Iarter’ and the domestication of Henry
V.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 41, 183–219 - 2016. Feats and feasts: The valorization of Sir Gareth of Orkney’s “grete laboure.” Studies in Philology, 113(2),
231–253 - 2013. Bisclavret and the subject of torture. Romanic Review, 104(1–2), 23–43
- 2010. The Awntyrs off Arthure, an economy of pain. Modern Philology, 108(2), 177–198
- 2009. The cipher of chivalry: Violence as courtly play in the world of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The
Chaucer Review, 43(3), 311–329 - 2003. “Bitraised Thorough False Folk”: Criseyde, the Siege, and the Threat of Treason. The Chaucer Review,
37(3), 219–233
Select awards
- 2024 Norwich University Award for Excellence in Research
- 2023 Clare Hall College, Cambridge University, Visiting Fellowship (March to May 2025)
- 2016 Mayers Fellowship. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, & Botanical Gardens
- 2001 Mellon Fellowship. Mellon Seminar in Interpretation: “Tradition, Revision, & Continuity in Renaissance &
Medieval Literary Studies.”
