Christopher Queen, M.A., Ph.D.

Dr. Christopher Queen is an assistant professor in the Department of English and World Languages specializing in Medieval Literature. His research explores the role of affective attachment and aversion in the creation, alteration, and use of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English manuscripts, codices, and textual objects. Dr. Queen’s work is concerned with how readers receive and intimately associate themselves—sometimes uncomfortably—with their objects of interest, affection, or study. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside and currently teaches courses on ancient, medieval, and early modern literature. Dr. Queen’s research has been published in academic journals such as Exemplaria: Early/Modern/Theory and Studies in Medievalism.

Middle English Literature, with an emphasis on manuscript culture and aesthetics as well as the poetics of affect. He also specializes in queer theory, the study of gender and sexuality, and medievalism.