Graduate students in Medieval Studies

Khushi Nansi is associate coordinator of the Medieval Studies Interdisciplinary Workshop. Her research focuses on women’s spaces of disobedience in the pre-modern Islamic world. She investigates notions of the “unseen” in a thirteenth-century Iberian...

Samuel Puopolo focuses on intertextuality among the poetic and narrative traditions of Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, above all the Welsh bards, as well as the development of Arthurian material in France, and the history of the English...

Research interests: Iberian literature of the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity. Travel narratives and early cartography. Connections between mental and narrative structures.

Katherine Scheidt is a doctoral student in Celtic Languages and Literatures. She is interested in the intersection between theology and medieval Irish literature, and her research focuses primarily on Middle Irish narratives and hagiographies.

Anna Suh is a current PhD student in Harvard University’s English department. She studies Christian mysticism in the High to Late Middle Ages with particular focus on visionary experience, women’s writing, and the relationship between the cataphatic and...

Interests: Old English literature, Poetry, Manuscript studies

Jordan is a first year PhD student in Romance Languages and Literatures. He is from Texas and thoroughly enjoys anything medieval, from Chaucer to Braulio to Juan Ruiz. In particular, he focuses on the textual interplay between medieval Iberian legal...