Jamie K. Taylor
Mary E. Garret Alumnae Professor of Literatures in English
Department/Subdepartment
Education
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.
M.A., University of Colorado, Boulder.
B.A., Stanford University.
Areas of Focus
Medieval British literature and culture; medieval legal procedure; critical and cultural theory
Biography
Jamie Taylor (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) specializes in the literature and culture of medieval England, with teaching and research interests in medieval law, documentary culture, and cross-cultural literary and cultural exchanges (particularly Anglo-Iberian). Her first book, Fictions of Evidence: Witnessing, Literature, and Community in Late Medieval England (Ohio State, 2013) examines legal and theological forms of testimony. She is currently researching the ways medieval English writers deployed "Spain" as a geopolitical heuristic.