Richard H. Godden

Richard H. Godden is an Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University within the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. His research focuses on medieval literature and culture, with specific expertise in disability studies, monstrosity, ecocriticism, and digital humanities.

• Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis
• Co-editor of three major collections: Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World, The Open Access Companion to The Canterbury Tales, and The Oxford Handbook of Disability and Literatures in English, c. 700–1500
• Current research explores material objects and their agency in medieval representations of disability through his monograph-in-progress Material Subjects: An Ecology of Prosthesis in Medieval Literature and Culture