Question: Which person Derek Pearsall wrote about was also known as "the Father of English literature"?
Context: Louise Swanton Belloc (1796–1881), née Anne-Louise Chassériau Swanton, was a French writer and translator of Irish descent best known for introducing a number of important works of English literature to France.  She is also remembered as a strong proponent of women's education, and was awarded a gold medal by the Institut in her twenties for her literary accomplishments.  Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris, the distinguished founder of the "Revue encyclopédique" (for which Swanton wrote), once referred to her as "a young person of brilliant talents". T. Ramachandran, (25 October 1944 – 26 July 2000), better known as T.R., his initials under which he wrote fiction, is considered a harbinger of high modernism in Malayalam.  He was born in Thrippunithura and his parents were Mannur Madhathil Raman Nambiar and Kochu Madhathil Savithri Brahmani Amma.  T.R. had his school education in Edappally, Kodungallur and Thrippunithura.  He graduated in zoology from St. Albert's College, Kochi (old spelling: Cochin), but, did his masters in English Literature from Sacred Heart College, also in Kochi.  He joined the State Bank of India as an officer; but, later, he gave up the bank job for a career in teaching English Literature. Derek Attridge FBA (born 6 May 1945) is a South African-born British academic in the field of English literature and a current Professor of English at the University of York, a post he has held since 2003.  Attridge undertakes research in South African literature, James Joyce, deconstruction and literary theory and the performance of poetry.  He wrote a monograph on South African writer J. M. Coetzee. Stephen Thomas Knight MA (Oxon.)  PhD (Sydney).  F.A.H.A., F.E.A. (born 21 September 1940) was, until September 2011, a distinguished research professor at Cardiff University in the School of English, Communications and Philosophy; and is currently honorary research professor of English Literature at the University of Melbourne in the School of Culture and Communication.  His areas of expertise include English literature, medieval literature, cultural studies, crime fiction, Robin Hood and Australian matters.  He has published a large number of books, and is well known in the public sphere for his contribution to these and other fields.  His most recent books have been "The Mysteries of the Cities" (2012), "Secrets of Crime Fiction Classics" (2014) and "Reading Robin Hood" (2015).  New themes are raised in his forthcoming book "The Politics of Myth" (2015), and he is now working on the many novels of G. W. M. Reynolds, who wrote and sold more books than Dickens, but has been silenced by conventional literary criticism. Geoffrey Chaucer ( ; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.  He was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. George Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860 – July 23, 1941) was a celebrated professor and scholar of English literature at Harvard University.  His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare as well as his writings and lectures on Shakespeare and other literary figures made him one of the most influential American literary critics of the early 20th century.  He was also of great importance in American folklore studies, continuing the work of his mentor, Francis James Child, the first person to hold a chair at Harvard (created especially in his honor) dedicated to the study of English literature and author of a definitive five-volume comparative study of the English and Scottish popular ballad.  As a folklorist Kittredge was instrumental in encouraging American folk song and folklore collecting among all ethnic groups in all regions of the country. Bryan Reynolds (born 1965), Claire Trevor Professor at the University of California-Irvine, is an American critical theorist, performance theorist, and Shakespeare scholar who developed the combined social theory, performance aesthetics, and research methodology known as transversal poetics.  He is also a playwright, director, performer, and cofounder of the Transversal Theater Company, an Amsterdam-based collective of American and European artists, which has produced a number of his works.  Reynolds received his bachelor's degree in English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and his master's and doctoral degrees in English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University.  He has been a Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine since 1998.  He has held visiting professorships at the University of London-Drama, the University of Amsterdam-Theater Studies, Utrecht University-Theater Studies, University of Cologne-American Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main-American Studies, University College Utrecht-Arts and Humanities, the University of California, San Diego-Theatre, Literature, Cognitive Science, the American University of Beirut-English, University of Tsukuba-Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Nairobi-Department of Literature, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt-Communications; and he has taught at Deleuze Camp at Schloss Wahn, University of Cologne, Germany, and the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, Poland, among other academic and performing arts institutions. Derek Pearsall is a prominent medievalist and Chaucerian who has written and published widely on Chaucer, Langland, Gower, manuscript studies, and medieval history and culture. Gémino Henson Abad is a literary critic from Cebu, Philippines.  His family moved to Manila when his father, Antonio Abad, was offered professorships at Far Eastern University and the University of the Philippines.  He earned his B.A. English from the University of the Philippines in 1964 and Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Chicago in 1970.  He served the University of the Philippines in various capacities: as Secretary of the University, Secretary of the Board of Regents, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Director of the U.P. Institute of Creative Writing.  For many years, he also taught English, comparative literature and creative writing at U.P. Diliman. The Review of English Studies is an academic journal published by Oxford University Press covering English literature and the English language from the earliest period to the present.  "RES" is a "leading scholarly journal of English literature and the English language" whose critical "[e]mphasis is on historical scholarship rather than interpretative criticism, though fresh readings of authors and texts are also offered in light of newly discovered sources or new interpretation of known material."
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer