George Edmondson

I work at the intersection, dangerous at times but well policed, of medieval studies and critical theory. On the medieval-studies side of the street you will find a book, The Neighboring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson, its Choice Outstanding Academic Title award still proudly displayed in the window, alongside articles and chapters in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Exemplaria, New Medieval Literatures, and The Post-Historical Middle Ages. Venture down the critical-studies side of the street and you will run across a volume forthcoming from Duke University Press, Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis, coedited with Klaus Mladek. At present (or in perpetuity — it’s hard to say), I am at work on a few different projects: a book, coauthored with Klaus Mladek, titled A Politics of Melancholia, for which we received a collaborative fellowship from the ACLS; a long essay on Chaucerian humor; and a book project on the motif of exile and return in Middle English literature. I have also been known to wander down side streets and blind alleys in pursuit of my other interests, which include psychoanalysis, biopolitics, and the literature of walking.