Staff

From Hortulus

Co-Editors in Chief

Karina Marie Ash

University of California, Los Angeles

Ph.D. Candidate, German; Concentration in Women's Studies

Primary interests: Constructions of gender in medieval German literature; hagiography and Middle High German lives of the Virgin Mary; intertextuality and discourse theories

Kisha Tracy

University of Connecticut

Ph.D. Candidate, Medieval Studies

Primary interests: memory in both religious and secular Middle English literature; memory and its connections to confession; Piers Plowman; Old French literature; and medieval Latin literature, particularly Latin in Middle English literature

Journal Submissions Editors

Andrea Boffa

SUNY Stony Brook University

Ph.D. Candidate, History

Primary interests: constructions and representations of gender and sexuality; late medieval Italy; women's spirituality; friendship; and hagiography

Katherine McLoone

University of California, Los Angeles

Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature

Primary interests: medieval romances, particularly scenes of the Underworld or Otherworld; narratology; ekphrasis; medieval theories of reading and composition; and genealogy

Copy and Design Editors

Morgan Kay

Fordham University

Ph.D. Candidate, Medieval History

Primary interests: medieval manuscripts; history of the British Isles; gender studies; material culture; orality and literacy; and the language, literature, and history of Wales

Kristen Lillvis

University of Kansas

Ph.D. Student, English

Primary interests: gender studies, specifically mothers and mothering; Chaucer's linguistic innovation; post-colonial approaches to medieval literature; and animal speech in The Canterbury Tales

Readers

Shawn W. Moore, California State University, Long Beach

Melissa Ridley-Elmes, Longwood University

Graduate students who are interested in volunteering for a position with Hortulus should send their inquiries to hortulus@hortulus.net.