Vicki Blud completed her doctoral studies at King’s College London and has since taught at King’s, Birkbeck, the University of Surrey and the University of York, where she is a research associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies. She is the author of The Unspeakable, Gender, and Sexuality in Medieval Literature (Boydell & Brewer, 2017), which interprets the concept of the unspeakable in medieval literature from the tenth to the fifteenth century, and co-editor with Juliana Dresvina of a forthcoming collection titled Cognitive Sciences and Medieval Studies (University of Wales Press). She is also a series editor for the forthcoming ‘Medieval Animals’ series at UWP. Most recently her research has focused on the afterlives of medieval mysticism, with support from a British Academy/Leverhulme grant.
Gender and sexuality; transgressive speech and insults; animality, lycanthropy and non/human bodies; history of emotion; the cognitive turn; cinnamon buns; medievalism.
Gender, Places, Spaces, and Thresholds in the Middle Ages, ed. Victoria Blud, Diane Heath and Einat Klafter (IHR Humanities Digital Library – forthcoming, 2018).
‘Beyond the Sea: Medieval Mystical Space and Convents in Exile’, for Gender, Places, Spaces, and Thresholds in the Middle Ages, ed. Blud, Heath and Klafter.
The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature: 1000-1400, Gender in the Middle Ages series (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2017).
‘Emotional Bodies: Cognitive Neuroscience and Medieval Studies’, Literature Compass 13.6 (2016), 457-66.
‘Wolves’ Heads and Wolves’ Tales: Women and Exile in Bisclavret and Wulf and Eadwacer’: Exemplaria 26.4 (2014), 328-46.