Kathy Lavezzo

Medieval Literature

Kathy Lavezzo, an Assistant Professor who joined the English Department in 1999, specializes in medieval literary studies with special attention to issues of community and social hierarchy. Courses Kathy teaches include Arthurian Literatures, Mapping Medieval Women, the Canterbury Tales, and the Pearl-poet. She is the editor of Imagining a Medieval English Nation (Minnesota, 2003) and the author of Angels on the Edge of the World: Geography, Literature, and English Community, 1000-1534 (Cornell, June 2006). Kathy currently is working on a book-length study tentatively titled "Chaucer's Object Lessons: Everyday Life and the Matter of the Canterbury Tales."