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Julie Chamberlin

Advanced Lecturer

I am an Advanced Lecturer in English with a specialization in medieval and early modern literature at Loyola University Chicago. 

I regularly teach courses on literature and writing. Recent courses include: Exploring Drama, Shakespeare and the Law, Renaissance Literature, Exploring Shakespeare, Interpreting Literature: Form and Transformation, Writing Responsibly (first-year composition), and Business Writing. 

My academic research focuses on the intersection of medieval literature and concepts of legal personhood during a period of linguistic and political transition in England (twelfth through fourteenth centuries). I read animal fables that involve court scenes and arbitration alongside legal documents such as law books and coroner's rolls, arguing that medieval writers used animal fable as a space in which ideas of what it means to speak at law and to be a vulnerable body before the law could be defined, contested, and reimagined. 

Education

  • BA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • PhD, Indiana University Bloomington

Research Interests

  • Medieval British Literature
  • Medieval Law
  • Fables
  • Justice
  • Animals
  • Ecocriticism
  • Posthuman Theory
  • Old French
  • Middle English

Publications/Research Listings

Articles:

  • "'Ful Louder:’ Raising the Hue and Cry in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale.” The Chaucer Review 59.1 (January 2024), 62–83.
  • “Animal Trials in The Advocate.” Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction Through Film. eds. Esther Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno, and Tony Perron. Accepted under contract with Fordham University Press, expected 2024.
  • “Fable.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia, 4 Volumes. Ed. Richard Newhauser (Wiley-Blackwell, June 2023).
  • “Book Review: Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman Texts by Liam Lewis.” Literature & History 31.2 (Nov. 2022), 178–180.
  • “Philosophie and Folie: Translating Suffering in Marie de France’s Fables.” Le Cygne: International Journal of the Marie de France Society. Vol. 3 (Fall 2016), 21–38.

Awards

  • Research Support Grant (2024), Loyola University Chicago
  • Johnson Scholar Program for First-Book Authors Fellow (2023-24)
  • FCIP Faculty Scholar in Assignment Design (2023-24)
    FCIP Micro-Grant Recipient, Loyola University Chicago 2022
  • Helen Ann Mins Robbins Dissertation Fellow, University of Rochester, 2018-2019
  • Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2015 & 2017