Daniel Pike

Daniel Pike is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University and Lecturer at the University of Advancing Technology. He currently studies Medieval Literature and is focused on the influences of the English vernacular artes moriendi and ghostly chivalry on the insular Arthurian legend of the 14th and 15th centuries. He has recently contributed an article on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to the journal Etudes Médiévales Anglaises and a chapter on Gawain's identity to an Ellipses Critical Edition focused on preparing French candidates for professorship for the Agrégation civil examination. He has also contributed to Race and American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation (Greenwood, 2017) on the topics of Middle Eastern representation, imperialist narratives, and race in the Rocky films in addition to being the author of two Science Fiction novels: The Wolf of Descarta (Zharmae, 2013) and Betrayal at Phobos (Zharmae, 2015).