Amy Appleford
applefor@bu.edu
Assistant Professor. B.A, M.A., University of Guelph, CA;  Ph.D, University of Western Ontario, CA

Teaching and Research Interests: Middle English literature; medieval drama; Chaucer; Tudor drama; early women’s writing; literary theory and criticism; performance studies.
Selected Publications: “Shakespeare’s Katherine of Aragon: Last Medieval Queen, First Recusant Martyr.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Special Issue on Premodern Shakespeare. Ed. by Sarah Beckwith and James Simpson 40.1 (Winter 2010). “The Dance of Death in London: John Lydgate, John Carpenter, and the Daunce of Poulys.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 38.2 (Spring 2008); “The ‘Comene Course of Prayer’: Julian of Norwich and Late Medieval Death Culture.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 107.2 (April 2008); “In the Shade of Malcolm Lowry.” The Malcolm Lowry Review (Spring 1998).
Work in Progress: This Corruptible Body: Arts of Dying and the Poetics of Community in Fifteenth-Century London.
Honors, Grants, and Awards: Mary Routledge Fellowship (2003); Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Dissertation Fellowship (2000-3); Harvard Visiting Fellowship (2001-2); Certificates of Distinction in Teaching (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007).