Katherine Churchill studies and teaches medieval literature. Her book project, Archival Entanglements: Provenance and Posterity in Late Medieval English and French Literature, traces how changes in text storage and organization transformed representations of futurity in literary writing in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In addition to her work on media history, book history, and cultural memory, she also studies gender and nineteenth-century and twentieth-century medievalisms. Her essays on literature, history, and medieval culture have appeared in venues like Time, JSTOR Daily, Literary Hub, Oxford American Magazine, Public Books, Electric Literature, and elsewhere
Selected Publications
Articles:
““The Bokes Duelle’: John Gower’s Poetics of Futurity and the Development of the Late Medieval Archive,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Vol. 47 (forthcoming 2025).
“Relational Virginity and Nonbinary Gender in La vie de Sainte Euphrosine and La vie de Saint Alexis,” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, Vol. 50, Issue 2 (June 2024): 139-158.
Selected essays:
“Screaming, Crying, Throwing up: The Medieval Art of Fandom.” Mixed Feelings. (2025)
“The Exclusive Men’s-Only Book Club, and the Woman Who Has a Key.” Defector. (2025)
“When Good Housekeeping Meant Getting Vaccinated for Polio.” History News Network. (2025)
“An Early Case of Impostor Syndrome.” History News Network. (2024)
“Birthing the Jersey Devil.” JSTOR Daily. (2024)
“The 12th Century Library Thief Who Anticipated Today’s Hackers.” Time. (2024)
“Archival Romance: On Finding Love in the Papers of an Obscure Medieval Poet.” Literary Hub. (2024)
“An Extraordinarily Metal Way to Be: Authorship and Medieval Women.” Public Books. (2023)
“Questing for the Past.” Oxford American Magazine. (2022)
“The Monster in The Green Knight Should be Sexier.” Electric Literature. (2021)
