Elizabeth Schirmer
Associate Professor of English, NMSU, PhD University of California-Berkeley, eschirme@nmsu.edu
Elizabeth Schirmer is Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at NMSU. She received her AB in English and French Literatures from Stanford University and her PhD in Medieval English literature from UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on models of reading in late-medieval English literary and religious writing. Her current book project, a study of the Pearl manuscript, rethinks the relationship between literary making and vernacular theology in late-medieval England. She has published several articles on the Lollard heresy and on the community of women readers at Syon Abbey. Teaching interests include Chaucer, medieval women reading the bible, lyric poetry, and queer theory.