Julie Chamberlin
Lecturer
- E-mail: jchamberlin1@luc.edu
About
I am a Lecturer in English with a specialization in medieval and early modern literature.
Recent courses include: Exploring Shakespeare, Exploring Drama, Renaissance Literature, Interpreting Literature: Form and Transformation, Writing Responsibly, 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 medieval legal documents, arguing that medieval writers used fable as a space where ideas of what it means to speak at law and to be a vulnerable body before the law could be defined, contested, and reimagined.
Degrees
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BA,University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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PhD, Indiana Univeristy Bloomington
Research Interests
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Medieval British Literature
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Medieval Law
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Fables
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Justice
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Animals
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Ecocriticism
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Posthuman Theory
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Old French
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Middle English
Awards
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FCIP Micro-Grant Recipient, Loyola University Chicago 2022
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Helen Ann Mins Robbins Dissertation Fellow, University of Rochester, 2018-2019
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Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2015 & 2017
Publications
Articles:
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“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), pp. 21–38.