Contributors

Jennifer N. Brown is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, where she is also the Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her most recent books include a coedited collection, Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions (York Medieval Press, 2021) and a monograph, Fruit of the Orchard: Catherine of Siena in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Toronto University Press, 2018).

Ardis Butterfield is Marie Borroff Professor of English and Professor of French and Music at Yale University. Her books include Poetry and Music in Medieval France (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War (Oxford University Press, 2009). Most recently, she has coedited with Andrew Kraebel and Ian Johnson Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Alastair Minnis (Cambridge University Press, 2023). She is currently completing an edition of medieval English lyrics for Norton, and a book on medieval song: Medieval Songlines, along with work on untranslatability and medieval global multilingualism.

Daniel Davies is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston. His work on medieval literary history, siege warfare and manuscript studies has appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, New Medieval Literatures and Medium Ævum. He is currently completing a monograph examining the intimacy between war and late medieval literary history.

Helen Fulton is Chair and Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. She has published widely on medieval Welsh literature and its connections with political, urban and manuscript history in Wales and England. She is the coeditor of the Cambridge History of Welsh Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds (D. S. Brewer, 2022). She is currently leading a £2 million project on the medieval March of Wales.

Andrew Galloway has taught medieval literature at Cornell University since 1991, where he holds the James John Chair of Medieval Studies. His books include The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 1 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006) and Medieval English Literature and Culture (Continuum, 2006). He teaches and has examined in many chapters and essays literature in its intellectual, social and economic contexts c.800–1500, especially later medieval poetry and historical writing. Recent chapters include ‘Poetic and Literary Theory’ (in The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Volume 2: Medieval Poetry: 1100–1400) and ‘Chronicle and History’ (in The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Volume 3: Medieval Poetry: 1400–1500).

Matthew Giancarlo is Professor of English and Affiliated Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. His publications include Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, 2007) as well as numerous articles and chapters on late medieval English literature. He is currently Middle English editor at the Journal of English and Germanic Philology.

Alani Hicks-Bartlett is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, and Hispanic Studies at Brown University. Her main research and teaching interests include gender, race, disability and classical exemplarity in medieval and early modern literature. Some of her recent work has been published in journals such as Comparative Literature, Hispanic Review, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, L’Esprit Créateur, Modern Language Notes, Rivista di studi italiani and Romance Notes.

J. R. Mattison is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia. She is the author of articles and essays in Medium Ævum, Huntington Library Quarterly and Book History, among others, on multilingualism, translation and manuscripts in late medieval England and France. Her research examines how medieval ideas about language develop new understandings of material texts.

R. D. Perry is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. He is the author of Coterie Poetics and the Beginnings of the English Literary Tradition: From Chaucer to Spenser (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming) and coeditor with Mary-Jo Arn of Charles d’Orléans’ English Aesthetic: The Form, Poetics, and Style of ‘Fortunes Stabilnes’ (Boydell & Brewer, 2019) and coeditor with Benjamin Saltzman of Thinking of the Medieval: Midcentury Intellectuals and the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Elizaveta Strakhov is Associate Professor of English at Marquette University. She is the author of Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years’ War (Ohio State University Press, 2022), coeditor with Megan L. Cook of John Lydgate’s Dance of Death and Related Works (TEAMS, 2019), and coeditor with Carissa M. Harris and Sarah Baechle of Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature (Penn State University Press, 2022). Her research interests include medieval translation and multilingualism, manuscript miscellanies, Anglo-French cultural exchange, and lyric.

Lynn Staley is the Harrington and Shirley Drake Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English at Colgate University, New York. She writes about literature, history and culture during the medieval and early modern period. Her most recent book is Following Chaucer: Offices of the Active Life (University of Michigan Press, 2020).

Stefan Vander Elst is Associate Professor of English at the University of San Diego. His research interests include the historiography of the Crusades, the literary production of the Crusader States, and fourteenth-century English and French literature. His first book was The Knight, the Cross, and the Song (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017).

David Wallace has been Judith Rodin Professor of English & Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1996; before that he taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Texas at Austin and Karl-Marx-Universität, Leipzig. He also teaches for the Rosenbach Museum, Philadelphia and for Penn’s Department of Italian, and is Director-in-Chief of Penn’s online journal Bibliotheca Dantesca. His Premodern Places (Blackwell, 2004, 2006) traces movements of people, free and enslaved, across Mediterranean and then Atlantic spaces. His Europe: A Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2016, 2021) eschews nation-based historiography to trace itineraries of movement across Eurasian space. His current collaborative project, National Epics (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) studies, complementarily, the cultural mechanisms of nationalism: nationalepics.com. He has served as President of the New Chaucer Society and of the Medieval Academy of America, and in 2019 was awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz prize by the British Academy.

Lucas Wood is Associate Professor of French at Texas Tech University. His research, based on a diverse corpus of medieval literary texts in French, explores hermeneutic, ideological and aesthetic tensions within the interlaced discourses of chivalry and courtliness, especially where they intersect with questions of genre, gender, political theory and allegorical poetics. His work on topics ranging from the gender politics of medieval werewolf narratives and fabliau metaphors to the ethical implications of allegorical interpretation in Arthurian romance and the poetics of the bibliophile heart in Charles d’Orléans’s lyric verse has appeared in, among others, New Medieval Literatures, Medium Ævum, Romanic Review, Arthuriana, Medievalia et Humanistica and Perspectives médiévales.