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Jennifer Sisk

Jennifer Sisk, Assistant Professor

  • B.A. University of California at Berkeley
  • M.Phil. Yale University
  • Ph.D. Yale University
Area of expertise

Medieval Literature and Culture, Religion and Literature, and History of Christianity

Contact Information
Email: Jenny Sisk

Office: 419 Old Mill

Office Hours: Tues. & Thurs. 2:45-3:45

Research interests: The literature and religious culture of late medieval England, particularly the way literary texts think through complex and often controversial religious issues.  Narrative poetry (particularly Chaucer, Langland, and Lydgate); visionary texts; hagiography. 

Courses Taught: Chaucer, Hagiography and the Cult of Saints, Medieval Dreams and Visions, Survey of British Literature to 1700, English Language Politics

 

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