Lisa Weston

Lisa Weston is a Professor in the Department of English at California State University, Fresno, within the College of Arts and Humanities. Her academic work focuses on Medieval Literature, with expertise in Old and Middle English, Medieval Latin, Norse and Celtic literatures, and constructions of gender and sexuality in monastic liturgy and hagiography.

• Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles

Her research integrates feminist and queer theory to explore intersections of sexuality and literacy in Anglo-Saxon and Old English literature. Notable publications include analyses of Old English wisdom poetry, magico-ritual texts, and women writers like Baudonivia of Poitiers and Hrotsvit of Gandersheim.

Recent contributions appear in the Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature (2013), The Lesbian Premodern (2011), and Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages (2001). She co-edited Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England (2004) with Carol Braun Pasternack.

Dr. Weston actively participates in academic leadership as a member of the Old English Division of the Modern Language Association, the Society for Medieval Feminist Research, and the Society for the Study of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages. She also engages with contemporary popular culture and visual arts, including collage pieces published in the San Joaquin Review.