Faculty
Scala, Elizabeth
Associate Professor
English
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Education: Ph.D., Harvard
Research interests:
Elizabeth Scala teaches Chaucer and his late medieval contemporaries in the context of psychoanalytic and textualist approaches to literature. She writes about Chaucer, the history of Chaucer studies. and the textual environments of medieval literature. Her forthcoming publications include a collection of essays, The Post-Historical Middle Ages, edited with Sylvia Federico (Palgrave, 2009), in which she has written "The Gender of Historicism." "The Texture of Emare" is forthcoming in Philological Quarterly and a special issue of Medieval Feminist Forum in 2009 on "academic injustice" is being planned around her work on female medievalists Eleanor Prescott Hammond and Edith Rickert. She is one of the new editors of the journal Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies.