Overview
Jordan Chauncy is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Medieval Studies Program. He completed his B.A. in English at Loyola University New Orleans with a research thesis on the construction of identity through cloth on the early modern stage, arguing for an expansion of what qualifies as a cross-dressing play. He believes in an accessible Middle Ages and believes this must mean more than just “readable.”
Research Focus
He is currently interested in fashioning identity and the material realities of embodiment in late medieval literature, with a special interest in cross-dressings and trans theory. His research and his thoughts on bodies and embodiment are indebted to both monster theory and disability studies.