About Audrey

Hello! I am a Ph.D. student in the English Department at the Pennsylvania State University. I teach courses in writing, world literature, and early period literature, and I am dedicated to helping students become effective communicators and critical thinkers.

As I researcher, I study the textual cultures of late-medieval writings, which includes investigating elements of reception, translation, transmission, and adaptation. In my dissertation, I consider these topics in relation to a popular genre of vernacular writing in fifteenth-century England: Middle English health regiments or dietaries. I use my dissertation to examine how the substance, manuscript contexts, and circulation of these texts reveal the values and ideologies that late-medieval readers have about health and the body. My research draws upon elements from manuscript studies, bibliography, and cultural studies.

The works of women authors in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are also important for my teaching and research, and I enjoy introducing students to writers like Christine de Pizan, Margery Kempe, and Maire de France in addition to the large body of hagiographic writing about female saints.

 

 

 

Website image is a detail from The National Library of Naples MS IV F 3 (the Neapolitan Ovid) f. 16v