Kathleen Davis

Assistant Professor of English

PhD Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
MA Villanova University, Villanova, PA
BA Villanova University, Villanova, PA

Office: 175B Swan Hall
Phone: 401-874-2016
E-Mail: kathleendavis@uri.edu
Office Hours: Wed 2:30 - 3:30 pm and by appointment

Kathleen Davis was trained as a medievalist at Rutgers University, where she found encouragement to work across disciplinary boundaries. She now specializes in the fields of medieval studies, translation studies, and postcolonial criticism. She is the author of Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time and Deconstruction and Translation, and is co-editor, with Nadia Altschul, of Medievalisms in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of “the Middle Ages” Outside Europe (forthcoming, Johns Hopkins University Press 2009). Her articles and reviews have appeared in The Journal for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Speculum, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Traductio, and Medievalia et Humanistica, as well as in numerous edited collections. In 2008 she was recipient of a Newberry Library NEH Fellowship.

Within medieval studies, Davis specializes in Old English literature, and is a co-founder of the ASSC (Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium) http://www.columbia.edu/cu/assc/ , an organization dedicated to fostering exchange among faculty and graduate students interested in the language, literature, and culture of early medieval England. She is currently working on two major projects, one on time in Old English poetry, and one on secularity and sanctuary.