Martin Camargo

Martin Camargo is Emeritus Professor of English, Classics, and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and has held previous appointments at the University of Alabama (1979-1980) and the University of Missouri (1980-2003). An award-winning teacher of undergraduate and graduate students, he also served as head of three different departments and as a dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The principal focus of Camargo's teaching and scholarship has been literature written in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. His research on vernacular poetry, especially works by Geoffrey Chaucer, and on medieval Latin rhetoric has received fellowship support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, All Souls College, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has published five books and more than sixty articles and has maintained an active research program since retiring in 2021.