DAVID LYLE JEFFREY, Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, is a distinguished scholar and educator whose contributions to medieval studies, historical criticism, and biblical tradition in English literature have been internationally recognized. The record of his more than two hundred publications includes "The Early English and Franciscan Spirituality", "By Things Seen: Reference and Recognition in Medieval Thought", "A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature", and "People of the Book: Christian Identity and Literary Culture". David Jeffrey has served as member and chairperson of more than a dozen learned and professional societies, and has been the recipient of many fellowships, merit awards, and major research grants. He was recently selected as the 1995 Professor of the Year of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa, and in 1996 was made Guest Professor of Peking University (Beijing).