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Laurie Ringer
Specializing in late medieval/early modern literature, I also have interdisciplinary expertise in affect theory (after AL Tsing’s, Karen Barad’s, and Donna Haraway’s updates to Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Brian Massumi), intersectional feminism (after Sara Ahmed and bell hooks), and contemporary speculative fiction broadly encompassing gothic, science fiction, dystopic, apocalyptic, and post-apocalyptic texts.
The Wycliffite/Lollard strand of my research focuses on the vernacular texts associated with the Wycliffite/Lollard heresy (c.1380–1530). The Wycliffite Repository, an online select concordance generated from an assemblage of 432 Middle English texts, makes my work freely available for consultation.
The affect theory strand of my research has developed into a body of work interfacing nomadic, processual thought with speculative fiction in journal articles and edited collections. Forthcoming titles include ‘Turning two into three: Decolonizing the gothic through three habits of affect in John Burnside’s A Summer of Drowning’. A Feel for the Text: Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice (ed. Stephen Ahern, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan). Under contact and forthcoming. ‘Accidents of occidentalism: Women, SF, and the West’. The Science Fiction Western: Representation of Female Characters in the Late Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Media (ed. Melanie Marotta).