Michelle R. Warren
|Professor
Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of Comparative Literature
Chair, Comparative Literature Program
Director, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship
Senior Advisor, Faculty Development, Diversity, and Inclusion for Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Research: My motto is: "The Middle Ages Aren't Old." I am a scholar of medieval Europe by training, firmly grounded in contemporary global concerns. I study how the past shapes the present and how the present shapes our views of the past. My projects typically connect small things to big ideas: a single word choice to ethnic nationalism, an epigraph to colonial memory, a reader's note in a book to social power relations. My most recent book, Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet, was supported by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
Contact
603-646-6498
Reed, Room 211
HB 6051
Education
- Ph.D. Stanford University (1993)
- M.A. Stanford University (1991)
- B.A. University of California - Berkeley (1988)
Selected Publications
Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Stanford University Press, 2022), awarded the 2023 History of the Book Prize from the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
"Millennial Books." Speculum 101.1 (2026): 163-69
"Extreme Translation: Six Medieval Lessons for Everyone," PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association 138 (2023): 789-96.
"The Medieval of the Long Now," boundary 2 50 (2023): 83-103.
