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Wesley Chihyung Yu is an Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College, affiliated with the Department of English and the Medieval Studies program. On leave during 2024–2025, his research bridges medieval intellectual history and literary studies, focusing on intersections between rhetoric, logic, and vernacular poetic traditions across the eighth to fourteenth centuries.
- Ph.D., Princeton University
- M.A., Princeton University
- M.A., University of Colorado at Boulder
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley
His scholarly work investigates medieval theories of argumentation, examining how shifts in logical frameworks correspond to changes in poetic practices within Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English literary traditions. Yu explores allegory, figurative language, and the influence of Boethius on medieval poetry, positioning poetics as central to early intellectual history.
