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Renée R. Trilling

Associate Professor

Research Interests

Old and Middle English literature; theories of historiography and nationalism; linguistics and philology; new materialisms and body studies

Education

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame; M.A., University of Notre Dame; B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Courses Taught

Undergraduate courses include Old English language and literature, Chaucer, medieval women writers, historiography, modern medievalisms and film, and critical theory. Recent graduate seminars have focused on history, literature, and state formation in early medieval England; on Beowulf, the poem and its critical contexts; on forms of alterity in the Middle Ages; and on the poems of the Junius Manuscript.

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Program in Medieval Studies
Associate Professor, English
Associate Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Highlighted Publications

Trilling, R. R. (2009). The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Old English Verse. (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series). University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442697935

Stodnick, J., & Trilling, R. R. (Eds.) (2012). A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118328828

Trilling, R. R., Norris, R., & Stephenson, R. (Eds.) (2020). A Feminist Renaissance in Early Medieval English Studies. English Studies, 101(1).

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Recent Publications

Norris, R., Stephenson, R., & Trilling, R. (2023). Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies. (Knowledge Communities). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463721462

Stephenson, R., Fay, J., & Trilling, R. R. (Eds.) (2022). Textual Identities in Early Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. (Anglo-Saxon Studies; Vol. 42). D.S. Brewer. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv24tr798

Trilling, R. R. (2022). Ordering Chaos in Old English Wisdom Poetry. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 52(1), 69-92. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-9478482

Norris, R., Trilling, R. R., & Stephenson, R. (2020). Introduction: A Feminist Renaissance in Early Medieval English Studies. English Studies, 101(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2020.1709761

Trilling, R. R., Norris, R., & Stephenson, R. (Eds.) (2020). A Feminist Renaissance in Early Medieval English Studies. English Studies, 101(1).

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