Katherine Churchill

Title: 
Assistant Researcher
Biography: 

Katherine Churchill studies and teaches medieval literature. Her book project,ÌýArchival Entanglements: Provenance and Posterity in Late Medieval English and French Literature, traces how changes in text storage and organization  transformed representations of futurity in literary writing in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In addition to her work on media history, book history, and cultural memory, she also studies gender and nineteenth-century and twentieth-century medievalisms. Her essays on literature, history, and medieval culture have appeared in venues like Time, JSTOR Daily,ÌýLiterary Hub, Oxford American Magazine,ÌýPublic Books,ÌýElectric Literature, and elsewhere

Selected Publications

Articles:

““The Bokes Duelle’: John Gower’s Poetics of Futurity and the Development of the Late Medieval Archive,â€Â Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Vol. 47 (forthcoming 2025).

“Relational Virginity and Nonbinary Gender in ,â€Â Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures,ÌýVol. 50, Issue 2 (June 2024): 139-158.

Selected essays:

“.â€Â Mixed Feelings. (2025)

“.â€Â Defector. (2025)

“.â€Â History News Network. (2025)

“.â€Â History News Network. (2024)

“.â€Â JSTOR Daily. (2024)

“.â€Â Time. (2024)

“.â€Â Literary Hub. (2024)

Ìý“.â€Â Public Books. (2023)

Ìý“.â€Â Oxford American Magazine. (2022)

Ìý“.â€Â Electric Literature. (2021)