Michael Cichon

• B.A., St. Francis Xavier
• M.A., University of Wales, Bangor
• M.A., University of Toronto
• M.S.L., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
• Ph.D., University of Toronto, Centre for Mediaeval Studies

Michael Cichon studies the vernacular literatures of the British Isles, with a particular interest in legal and anthropological approaches to analysing those literary traditions and the cultures which produced them. He has published essays on the erotic in medieval Welsh literature, Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and Welsh Arthurian romances. His current work involves outlaws and redemption in Icelandic sagas and the reception of the Middle English Pearl in later Scots literature.

Proverbia Septentionalia: Essays on Proverbs in Medieval Scandinavian and English Literature.  Ed. with Yin Liu (ACMRS, 2019).

"Fiction after Felony: Innovation and Transformation in the Eland Outlaw Narratives." with Sharon Hubbs Wright.  Leeds Studies in English 14 (2014): 76-87.

"'As ye have brewd, so shal ye drink': the Proverbial Context of Eger and Grime." in Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts 35-46.

Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts.  Ed. with Rhiannon Purdie.  (D.S. Brewer: 2011).

Violence and Vengeance in Middle Welsh and Middle English Narrative: Owein and Ywain and Gawain. (Mellen, 2009)

"Mishandled Vessels: Heaving Drinks and Hurling Insults in Medieval Welsh Literature and Law," Canadian Journal of History 43.2 (2008) 227-40.

"Eros and Error: Gross Sexual Transgression in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi," in A. Hopkins and C.J. Rushton, eds., The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain (2007) 105-115.

"'Tis Policy and Stratagem Must Do': Rape, Deception, and Vendetta in The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of Titus Andronicus," in M. Crane, R. Raiswell, and M. Reeves, eds., Shell Games: Studies in Scams, Frauds, and Deceits (1300-1650) (Toronto, 2004) 105-22.

"Insult and Redress in Cyfraith Hywel Dda and Welsh Arthurian Romance," Arthuriana 10.3 (2000) 27-43.