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Dr Vicki Blud

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.

Research interests:

Gender and sexuality; transgressive speech and insults; animality, lycanthropy and non/human bodies; history of emotion; the cognitive turn; cinnamon buns; medievalism.

Recent publications:

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.

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