Elizabeth Scala


Elizabeth Scala
Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts

Phone: +1 512 471 8375
Email: scala@austin.utexas.edu

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Elizabeth Scala writes and teaches about Chaucer, the history of Chaucer studies, and the textual environments of medieval literature. She regularly publishes essays on the topics of Chaucer, the Canterbury Tales, and its various imprints. She is one of the editors of the journal Exemplaria: Medieval / Early Modern / Theory

Scala's most recent book is "Disire in the Canterbury Tales" (Ohio State, 2015). She is currently working on a book, forthcoming from Oxford University Press and titled "Shakespeare and the Renaissance Chaucer Book." The book project was supported by the Humanities Research Award from the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts.

In Fall 2022, she taught the first university course on the literary significance of Taylor Swift’s songwriting as a version of E314. “The Taylor Swift Songbook” met with International media attention, which still continues as Swift wraps up the first North American leg of the Eras Tour and continues releasing new versions of her first six albums. You can follow the progress of that course and its spinoffs on Instagram @swiftieprof.

Media Rep Contact

Daniel Oppenheimer (primary)
512-475-9712
email

Lauren Macknight (primary)
512-232-6504
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