Department of English

College of Humanities and Sciences

Current StudentsGive

Adin Lears

Adin E. Lears, PhD

Associate Professor

Affiliate Faculty in Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies

Hibbs Hall, 900 Park Ave., room 324H

Medieval

Education

  • PhD in English, Cornell University
  • MA in English, Queens College, CUNY
  • BA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vassar College

Research Interests

  • Medieval literature
  • Literary theory
  • Critical theory, especially related to affect, gender, and the post- or inhuman
  • Sound studies
  • History of science, technology, and medicine
  • Ecocriticism and Animal Studies
  • Modernism and the Middle Ages

Select Publications

  • “Corruption, Consumption, and Chaucer’s Reenchantment of Craft in the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer (forthcoming, 2024).
  • “The Elf and the Cyborg” Exemplaria 35 no. 3 (2023), 224-29.
  • “Matter and Meaning: Early English New Materialisms” Exemplaria 35 no. 2 (2023), 91-108.
  • “The Right to Care: On the Unruly Body and the Limits of Choice” The Hedgehog Review 24.3 (Fall, 2022).
  • “Repetition, Craft Knowledge, and Richard Rolle’s Creaturely Sublime,” New Medieval Literatures (2021) 115-43.
  • World of Echo: Noise and Knowing in Late-Medieval England (Cornell University Press, 2020).

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