The Editorial Collective of The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales, Summer 2015-September 2017
Candace Barrington, Central Connecticut State University
Brantley L. Bryant, Sonoma State University
Richard H. Godden, Louisiana State University
Daniel T. Kline, University of Alaska Anchorage
Myra Seaman, College of Charleston
Copy Editors
Andrew Petracca, Shyama Rajendran, and Haylie Swenson
Editors’ Acknowledgments
Candace Barrington thanks the many students and colleagues who contributed to the project, in particular copy-editor Andrew Petracca (whose work was funded by a CCSU-AAUP Curriculum Development Grant); beta-testers, Dr. Sheila Fisher (Trinity College, Hartford, CT) and her Fall 2016 students; and, CCSU’s Spring 2017 Canterbury Tales students who provided excellent feedback on the OACCT.
Brantley L. Bryant thanks colleagues at SSU who offered support for the project, advice, and expertise, including Ann Steckel, Justin Lipp, and Dean of the Library Karen G. Schneider. Bryant’s work on the project, and several aspects of the project itself, were partially supported by an OER Open Educational Resources grant from the California State University. Bryant thanks Haylie Swenson and Shyama Rajendran for their editorial assistance, also funded by the OER grant support. Like Richard Godden, Bryant thanks the Digital Scholarship Lab at Louisiana State University. Bryant also thanks Rachel Buurma, Jonathan Hsy, Eileen Joy, and Alexandra Gillespie, among others, for advice and many early conversations about the project.
Richard H. Godden would like to thank Brantley Bryant for giving life to this wonderful project (and for including him), his Chaucer students at Loyola University New Orleans for their thoughtful and engaged responses to the chapters, and he would like to thank Lauren Coats, Jason R. Peak, and Michael F. Waugh of the Digital Scholarship Lab at Louisiana State University for all their efforts to get this project up and running.
Dan Kline thanks Brantley Bryant for including him in this terrific project, the editorial team for their hard work, and the community of medievalists who have made the OACCT a reality.
Myra Seaman thanks the many contributors to the OACCT for their willingness to commit their expertise and labor to this unconventional project, and Brantley Bryant for the opportunity to be part of his generous innovation.
We dedicate this project to students, teachers, researchers, and readers everywhere.