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Patricia A. Dailey
Asst Prof
Columbia University
English-Compar Lit |
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Biography
B.A. Sarah Lawrence College (1988); Ph.D. University of California, Irvine (2002); LMS, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (2005).
Patricia Dailey joins Columbia faculty in fall 2004 after a holding a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University (2002-2004). She specializes in medieval literature and culture (English, Dutch, French, and Italian) and critical theory, focusing on women's mystical texts, dream visions, Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose, and medieval rhetoric. Patricia Dailey has written on Hadewijch, Julian of Norwich, Marguerite Porete, Hildegard von Bingen, Old English riddles, The Letter from Alexander to Aristotle, The Ruin, Beowulf, among others. Her articles appeared in New Medieval Literatures (vol 8, 2006) and Le Secret: Motif et Moteur de la Litterature; she is also a contributor to Routledge's Encyclopedia of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, and Cambridge's forthcoming Companion to Christian Mysticism, and the PMLA's special issue on Derrida. She is currently working on her manuscript Promised Bodies which focuses on temporality, embodiment, and inscription in medieval women's visionary texts and Anglo-Saxon poetry. In addition to her work in medieval literature, she has translated works by Giorgio Agamben (The Time That Remains, Stanford 2005), Jean-François Lyotard, and Antonio Negri. She is the founder of the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium (www.columbia.edu/cu/assc) and co-founder of the Theory Reading Group (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/posters/theory_reading_group.htm). | |
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