Patricia Dailey
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

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602A Philosophy, Mail Code: 4927, United States

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Patricia Dailey

Research Interests

Medieval Literature
Medieval Women's Poetry and Prose
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
Critical Theory
Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Studies
Gender, Sexuality, Queer Theory, Feminism
Europe
Britain

Biography

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B.A. Sarah Lawrence College; Ph.D. University of California, Irvine (2002); LMS, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (2005). Patricia Dailey joined Columbia faculty in 2004 after a holding a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University (2002-2004). She specializes in medieval literature and critical theory, focusing on women's mystical texts, and? Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose. Her book?Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts?(Columbia University Press, 2013) examines the relation between gender, temporality, the body, and language in medieval mystical texts, with a focus on the thirteenth century mystic Hadewijch. Her current book project,?In Parentheses,?examines the interrelation of literature and lived experience through early medieval English poetry. ?She is the co-editor, with Veerle Fraeters, of?A Companion to Hadewijch?(forthcoming, Brill). Articles include,?"Riddles, Wonder, and Responsiveness in Anglo-Saxon Literature," in the?Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature 500-1150?(2012);?"The Body and its Senses" and "Time and Memory" in the?Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism?(2012);?"Children of Promise: The Bodies of Hadewijch of Antwerp,"?Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies?(Spring, 2011); and "Questions of Dwelling in Anglo-Saxon Poetry and Medieval Mysticism: Inhabiting Landscape, Body, Mind,"?New Medieval Literatures?(vol 8, 2006). Other articles have appeared in Women's Studies Quarterly , Witness Issue (2007), ?Le Secret: Motif et Moteur de la Litterature (1999), ?Les Imaginaires du Mal (2000), the PMLA's special issue on Derrida (2005), ?and Routledge's Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. In addition to her work in medieval literature, she has translated works by Giorgio Agamben (The Time That Remains, Stanford 2005), Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, and Antonio Negri. She is the founder of the Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies (formerly the?Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium)?and co-founder of the Affect Studies University Seminar. She has served as the Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and is the Co-Chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Council (WGSSC). She was the initiator and co-founder of the Junior Faculty Advisory Board (JFAB).

Selected Publications

Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts

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