i'll just clip a small excerpt from my friend cristina's bio so that you can see the cool things that she working on!

"Concurrent projects span a broad range of theoretical and historical problems, from how we read material evidence (in John de Cobham's expensive and aesthetically sophisticated presentation of Cooling Castle's charter poem, for instance, which has implications for our understanding of elite self-fashioning, literacy and the Rising of 1381), to historically defined questions of intellectual history (in the visual arts, how did the lily crucifixion come to spread so quickly and broadly in a variety of media but only, evidently, in the British Isles? And what does this pattern tell us about elite or craft-oriented networks of influence?), to theorizing useful to literary scholars more generally (applying deictic theory and the work of cognitive linguists to medieval texts that demonstrate a particular interest in language and literary form, for instance, or by tracking uses of certain words that have ranges of meaning where their status as markers of time, place, and subjectivity interestingly coalesce into one timeless, placeless, selfless concept, or into an all-encompassing time, place, self [usually God's])."