Myra Seaman

Myra Seaman is a Professor and Associate Dean for Student Success at the College of Charleston's School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She previously served as Chair of the Department of English (2017-2022) and teaches courses encompassing late medieval English literature, medievalisms, and affective theory. Her scholarship focuses on anonymous Middle English texts and manuscript studies, with an emphasis on household materiality and collaborative authorship.

• Ph.D., English (Medieval Literature), Claremont Graduate University
• M.A., English, Claremont Graduate University
• B.A., English, State University of New York - Buffalo

Her research explores medieval literature, manuscript cultures, and new materialisms, incorporating feminist methodologies and history of emotion frameworks. Recent work examines collaborative editorial practices and anonymous authorship as interpretive tools.

Seaman co-founded the award-winning journal postmedieval (2010) and the Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales (2017). Her publications span household manuscripts, affective theory, and critical liberal arts pedagogy.

• Distinguished Faculty Research Award (2025)
• Susan J. Ridyard Prize (2024)
• ExCEL Awards (2019, 2015)
• Codex Award (2015), ASLSP (2012), PROSE (2011) for editorial work

As both scholar and administrator, Seaman combines medieval textual scholarship with educational innovation. Her editorial collaborations and research on anonymity challenge conventional approaches to literary authorship and cultural analysis.