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William Arguelles, English
William Arguelles is a doctoral student here in the English department, working on Medieval Literature, History, and Women and Gender Studies. His research specifically looks into the relationship between Gender and Government in later Medieval England, as represented in historical and literary sources, with a critical lens towards queenship. His work aims to examine the […]
Emily Price, English
Medieval theories of emotion, manuscript studies, disability studies, medieval medicine
Clare Wilson, History
Occitania, troubadours, crusades
Miranda Hajduk, English
Queer theory, disability studies, late medieval
Rebecca Wiegand Coale, Music
12th and 13th century French sacred music, secular music, theology
Soojung Choe, English
late medieval English literature; romance; gender (and masculinities) studies; medievalism
Paola Maria Rodriguez – Comparative Literature
Paola is a doctoral candidate in comparative literarure at the CUNY Graduate center and an adjunct at Queens College teaching Italian and German language and literature. Her research interests include troubadour poetry, the medieval lyric, mysticism, medieval philology and ancient languages.
Jennifer Alberghini, English
Research Interests: Medieval gender, marriage, and family, Chaucer, Gower, romance, and hagiography, translation Jennifer is a Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow at Queensborough Community College, and teaches at Queens College and Marymount Manhattan College. She defended her dissertation, “Divided Loyalties: Family and Consent to Marriage in Late Middle English Literature, 1300-1500” on May 18, 2018. […]
Joseph Pentangelo, Linguistics
Joseph Pentangelo is a PhD candidate in linguistics also pursuing a graduate certificate in medieval studies. He serves as a student representative for the medieval studies advisory committee. His paper, “The Grant, the Hare, and the Survival of a Medieval Folk Belief” will appear in the March 2019 issue of Folklore. Within the medieval era, […]
Dainy Bernstein, English
Research Interests: Childhood Studies; Education in the Middle Ages; Late Medieval British Texts; Medieval Ashkenazic Texts; Children’s and Young Adult Literature; Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Children’s Texts. Dainy is a sixth-year PhD student in English. She studies medieval childhood and education. She earned her BA in English Literature with a minor in Classical Studies from the City […]
