Peter Brown is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has taught at the Universities of Exeter, Connecticut, and California at Los Angeles, and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has published widely on Chaucer and other aspects of medieval culture and has edited A Companion to Chaucer (Blackwell, 2000), Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture 1350-1500 (Blackwell, 2007). His most recent book is Chaucer and the Making of Optical Space (Peter Lang, 2007).