Dorsey Armstrong

Dorsey Armstrong is a Professor of English and Medieval Literature at Purdue University, where she is also the head of the English Department. She received her AB in English and Creative Writing from Stanford University and her PhD in Medieval Literature from Duke University. She also has taught at Centenary College of Louisiana and at California State University, Long Beach.

Professor Armstrong’s research interests include medieval women writers, late-medieval print culture, and the Arthurian legend, on which she has published extensively. She is the author of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur: A New Modern English Translation Based on the Winchester Manuscript; Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur; and Mapping Malory: Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur (coauthored with Kenneth Hodges). She is also the editor in chief of the academic journal Arthuriana, which publishes cutting-edge research on the legend of King Arthur, from its medieval origins to its modern enactments.

Professor Armstrong is a recipient of the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Purdue’s top undergraduate teaching honor.

Professor Armstrong’s other Great Courses include The Black Death: The World’s Most Devastating Plague; Turning Points in Medieval History; The Medieval World; Analysis and Critique: How to Engage and Write about Anything; Great Minds of the Medieval World; and King Arthur: History and Legend.