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Jill Hamilton Clements is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), within the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on Old and Middle English literature, Old Norse-Icelandic texts, and medieval death practices. She explores themes like material culture, memory studies, and medieval law, with a current book project on the interplay of dead bodies and texts in early English commemorative genres. Her teaching spans Old English, medieval epic, and language history. She co-directs the Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies minor and co-organizes 'Dinner+Movie' events linking pre-modern texts to film.
Education: B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) from Truman State University, M.A. from Western Michigan University’s Medieval Institute, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Her work appears in Review of English Studies, Gesta, and Anglo-Saxon England.
Research interests include death and burial archaeology, medieval textual analysis, and interdisciplinary approaches to manuscripts and artifacts. She actively presents at conferences like the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo) and publishes on topics like hell-mouth imagery, legal texts, and gender in medieval literature.
