1. Rev. Guy Albert Trudel, O.P.
487 Michigan Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20017
bus.: (202) 495-3836
cellphone: (202) 604-6787
Fax: (202) 495-3873 e-mail: atrudelop@gmail.com
Education
1999 - 2001 Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies L.M.S.
magna cum laude
1996 - 2000 University of Oxford D.Phil.
Faculty of English Language and Literature
1995 - 1996 University of Oxford M.St.
Faculty of English Language and Literature
1989 - 1993 University of St. Michael’s College M.Div.
Faculty of Theology
1987 - 1988 University of Toronto M.A.
Faculty of English Literature
1983 - 1987 University of Saskatchewan B.A. (hons.)
Faculty of English Literature magnis cum honoribus
Thesis
“An Edition with Commentary of the Speculum huius vitae, a Fifteenth-Century Pastoral
Manual in English,” supervised by Anne Hudson, Oxford Professor of Middle English,
Lady Margaret Hall, and examined by Dr. H.L. Spencer (Exeter College, Oxford), and
Professor O. Pickering (University of Leeds) on 19 November 1999; the degree was
conferred on 6 May 2000.
Fellowships and Awards
2000 Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies Research Fellowship
1988 Doctoral Fellowship offer from the University of Toronto (declined
in order to pursue studies leading to the priesthood)

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1986 University of Saskatchewan Hannon Scholarship
1985 University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Scholarship
1984 University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Scholarship
Publications and Presentations
2009 “Unending Beginnings: Circularity in the Pearl” Paper presented at the
44th
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 9
May.
2007 Book review of Siegfried Wenzel, Latin Sermon Collections from Later
Medieval England: Orthodox Preaching in the Age of Wyclif (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2005) in Notes and Queries, 252 (March 2007),
pp. 93, 94.
Book review of Conrad Lindberg (ed.), King Henry’s Bible: MS Bodley 277,
The Revised Version of the Wyclif Bible. Vol. IV: The New Testament,
Stockholm Studies in English 100 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2004)
in Notes and Queries, 252 (March 2007), pp. 94, 95.
2006 “Sins against the Holy Spirit, Seven Deadly Sins, and the Construction of
Lollardy.” Paper presented at the 41st
International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 7 May.
2005 “The Middle English Book of Penance and the Readers of the Cursor
Mundi,” Medium Aevum 74 (2005), pp. 10-33.
“O’Donel, James Louis (1737-1811),” New Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) [revision of an article originally
written by G. Le G. Norgate]
2004 “Commanding the Higher Ground: Perceptions of Orthodoxy and
Multivalent English Expressions in Lollard and Anti-Lollard Texts.”
Paper presented at the 39th
International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 7 May.
Book review of Edward E. Foster and David H. Carey, Chaucer’s Church
(Aldershott, England: Ashgate, 2002) for Notes and Queries, June 2004, pp.
188-9.
2003 Pre-concert lecture on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, for the Toronto
Consort, 4-5 October

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2002 “O that my words were [re-]written: Resolving the mystery of Job.” Paper
presented at the Symposium on the Study and Use of the Bible in the
Middle Ages, University of Western Ontario, 23 March.
“The Middle English Book of Penance: Raymund of Penyafort English’d?”
Paper presented at the 37th
International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2 May.
2001 “History and Typology: Structural Devices and Didacticism in the Cursor
Mundi.” Presented at the 36th
International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 5 May.
2000 “Biblical History as Narrative: the Didactic Structure of the Cursor Mundi.”
Paper delivered to the Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar.
“The Cursor Mundi: the Popular Bible and English Pastoral Care.” Paper
delivered to the Pontifical Institute of Mediæval Studies Interdisciplinary
Research Seminar.
1999 “The Prick of Conscience, the Speculum huius vitae, and the Development of
the Vernacular Pastoral Manual.” Paper delivered to the Pontifical
Institute of Mediæval Studies Interdisciplinary Research Seminar.
1997 “The Origin and Development of a 15th
-Century Pastoral Manual, the
Speculum huius vitae.” Paper delivered to the Medieval Graduate Seminar,
University of Oxford.
1991 Book review of Michael Holroyd’s Bernard Shaw: A Biography, vols. i and ii,
(London: Chatto and Windus, 1988-1991) for the Canadian Catholic Review
1990 Book review of Peter Matthiesen’s On the River Styx (London: Collins
Harvill, 1989) for the Canadian Catholic Review
Teaching Experience
2013- Registrar at the Dominican House of Studies and Instructor in Latin,
teaching the Elementary Latin courses, LT 501 and LT 502, as well as LT
701 Introduction to Medieval Language and Literature. Currently
teaching PS 572 Communicating God's Word (an elementary public
speaking course).
2012-13 Associate Professor of English, teaching ENG 111, "English Composition
I," ENG 112, "English Composition II," ENG 311, "World Literature:
Epic," ENG 312, "World Literature: Lyric," ENG 313, "World Literature:
Tragedy and Comedy" at Aquinas College, Nashville, Tennessee

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2010 (Fall Semester only) Sessional Lecturer and Adjunct Faculty, teaching
ENG 231, “Survey of British Literature I” and ENG 304, “History of the
English Language” at Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island.
2009-10 Sessional Lecturer and Adjunct Faculty, teaching (in the Fall Semester)
ENG 101, “Freshman Writing Seminar,” and (in the Spring Semester) ENG
231, “Survey of British Literature I” at Providence College, Providence,
Rhode Island.
2005-6 Coordinator and part-time instructor for the team-taught SMC 210Y, “The
Medieval Tradition”; supervised senior undergraduate thesis; instructed
one graduate student in private reading course, MST 3123F, “The Bible in
Middle English.”
2004-5 Coordinator and part-time instructor for the team-taught SMC 210Y, “The
Medieval Tradition”; Instructor for SMC 360H, “An Introduction to
Medieval Vernacular Literature”; Instructor for the following courses in
the Center for Medieval Studies’ Graduate programme: MST 3123F, “The
Bible in Middle English” and MST 3124S, “Wycliffe and his Opponents.”
2002-3 Instructor for MST 3126, “Narrative Strategies in the Middle English
Literature of Pastoral Care II: Manuals of Instruction and Devotion,” and
for SMC 420H, “An Introduction to Medieval Vernacular Literature.”
2001-2 Tutorial instructor for the undergraduate course for St. Michael’s College,
University of Toronto SMC 210Y, “The Medieval Tradition”; co-instructor
for the graduate course MST 3125F, “Narrative Strategies in the Middle
English Literature of Pastoral Care I: Biblical Literature” offered through
the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto; private reading
course, “The Medieval Intellectual Tradition” offered for the Pontifical
Institute for Mediaeval Studies.
2001-6 Junior Fellow of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies
1988-9 Taught high school English to Juniors and Seniors at the Aquinas Institute,
Rochester, New York (Catholic high school)
1987 Served as Teaching Assistant in English 115.3 during Intersession at the
University of Saskatchewan
Related Administrative Experience
2013 – Pres. Registrar, Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Washington,
D.C.

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2012 – 2013 Director of the Center for Faith and Culture and Associate Professor of
English at Aquinas College, Nashville, TN
2011 – 2012 Assistant Novice Master and Associate Pastor at St. Gertrude’s Parish,
Cincinnati, OH
2008 – 2010 Associate Pastor, St. Pius V Church, Providence, RI
1994 – 1995 Associate Pastor of Holy Rosary Church, Toronto, Ontario
General Teaching Proficiencies
English: Writing courses, remedial grammar courses
Introductory survey courses on English language and literature
History of the English Language
Modern English Grammar
Introduction to Old English and Beowulf
Introduction to Middle English Literature
Chaucer, Gower, Langland, The Pearl Poet
20th
Century British Novel
Latin: Basic introductory grammar
Introduction to Medieval Latin
Medieval Studies: Introduction to Medieval Studies
Introductory Survey of Medieval Vernacular Literature
Introductory Medieval Palaeography and Codicology
Languages
Latin: Passed the M.A. and Ph.D. Latin language examinations for the Centre for
Medieval Studies, Toronto in Fall Term 1993 and Spring Term 1994
respectively; studied in the “Aestiva Romae Latinitas” program under Fr.
Reginald Foster, OCD, in Rome during June and July 2000
French: Reading knowledge
Old English: Passed the graduate course offered by the English Faculty at the
University of Toronto in 1988, under the direction of Prof. D. Klausner of
the Centre for Medieval Studies

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2012 – 2013 Director of the Center for Faith and Culture and Associate Professor of
English at Aquinas College, Nashville, TN
2011 – 2012 Assistant Novice Master and Associate Pastor at St. Gertrude’s Parish,
Cincinnati, OH
2008 – 2010 Associate Pastor, St. Pius V Church, Providence, RI
1994 – 1995 Associate Pastor of Holy Rosary Church, Toronto, Ontario
General Teaching Proficiencies
English: Writing courses, remedial grammar courses
Introductory survey courses on English language and literature
History of the English Language
Modern English Grammar
Introduction to Old English and Beowulf
Introduction to Middle English Literature
Chaucer, Gower, Langland, The Pearl Poet
20th
Century British Novel
Latin: Basic introductory grammar
Introduction to Medieval Latin
Medieval Studies: Introduction to Medieval Studies
Introductory Survey of Medieval Vernacular Literature
Introductory Medieval Palaeography and Codicology
Languages
Latin: Passed the M.A. and Ph.D. Latin language examinations for the Centre for
Medieval Studies, Toronto in Fall Term 1993 and Spring Term 1994
respectively; studied in the “Aestiva Romae Latinitas” program under Fr.
Reginald Foster, OCD, in Rome during June and July 2000
French: Reading knowledge
Old English: Passed the graduate course offered by the English Faculty at the
University of Toronto in 1988, under the direction of Prof. D. Klausner of
the Centre for Medieval Studies