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Jessica Rosenfeld is an Associate Professor of English and Associate Chair of the Department of English at Washington University. She holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on late medieval literature, the medieval reception of Aristotle, medieval women’s writing, and the history of emotions. She co-edits Exemplaria: Medieval – Early Modern – Theory and is an Associate Editor of The Chaucer Encyclopedia.
- Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Her research interests include medieval ethics, psychoanalytic theory, and gender studies. She explores the intersection of emotions and social structures, with recent work on envy in medieval texts like The Book of Margery Kempe and Chaucer’s Parson’s Tale. She co-convenes the Medieval Studies Writing Group at the Center for Humanities.
Her publications include Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love after Aristotle (2011) and a co-edited volume Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (2018). She is completing a book on medieval foundations of modern emotion theories.
- Awards: ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship (2014-15)
Rosenfeld teaches courses on medieval literature, women’s writing, and premodern gender studies. She is an affiliate faculty member in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Comparative Literature, and Classics.
