Charlotte Cook Morse ’64

Charlotte Cook Morse ’64, of Richmond, Va.; Sept. 25, as a result of advanced Alzheimer’s. She earned her PhD from Stanford in medieval English literature in 1968. Her dissertation led to the 1979 publication of her book, The Pattern of Judgment in the “Queste” and “Cleanness.” She joined the English faculty at Yale and taught there until 1975. She reviewed grant applications at the National Endowment for the Humanities for a year before accepting a tenure-track position at Virginia Commonwealth University. Tenured as an associate professor in 1979, she was later promoted to professor and retired with professor emeritus status in 2012. She taught during the school year and conducted research at the British Museum Library in London each summer and when on sabbatical. Her research focused on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, particularly the Clerk’s Tale. She is survived by her sister and four nieces.