Carol Falvo HeffernanCarol Falvo Heffernan is Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. Among her published books are Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio (Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 2009), The Orient in Chaucer and Medieval Romance(Cambridge England: D. S. Brewer, 2003), The Melancholy Muse: Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Early Medicine (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne UP, 1995), and others. Her articles have appeared in such scholarly journals as The Chaucer Review, Magistra, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Modern Philology, and Notes and Queries. Read More Read Less