David Yerkes
Professor of English and Comparative Literature

My Contact Info

615 Philosophy Hall, Mail Code: 4927, United States

Office Hours Fall 2022

Mondays 11:00 AM – Noon and 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Wednesdays 4:00 – 5:00 PM



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David Yerkes

Research Interests

English language, including Anglo-Saxon and Middle English
Bibliography
Textual Criticism
English Translations of the Bible
Medieval Literature
Europe

Biography

B.A., Yale (1971); B.A. Oxford (1973); D.Phil., Oxford (1976). At Columbia since 1977, Professor Yerkes is a specialist in the history of the English language. A founding member of the Society for Textual Scholarship and a life member of the American Dialect Society, he has written three books and more than fifty articles, published in eight countries, on the English language.