On Kay, Sarah. Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Kay explores how the prominent medieval genre of the French and Latin bestiary interrogates the boundary between its (human) readers and the (other) animals it...
On Stanton, Robert. “Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Anglo-Saxon Bird Riddles.” Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe, ed. Irit Ruth Kleiman. New York, Palgrave, 2015.
Stanton treats the bird riddles of Anglo-Saxon England as “a rich field in which to explore the nature, operation, and function of voice as a...
Lit review in process: Medieval Animal Studies
For my English 7011 lit review I will, broadly speaking, focus on animal studies in medieval-literary scholarship. Due to the fact that animal studies is...
I Labor, Therefore I Am: Labor, Series, and Asserting Existence through Essence
In “‘Calling [herself] Eleanor’: Gender Labor and Becoming a Woman in the Rykener Case,” Kadin Henningsen applies the concepts of “seriality and gender labor” to...
Abandon Hope Ye Who Enter: Or, Who Has the Power to Enter and Emerge from Hell/History
When the writer Joanna Schroeder was driving her 11- and 14-year-old sons and their friends in the back seat of her car, and heard one...