{"id":8258,"date":"2022-08-03T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/?post_type=profile&p=8258"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:22:34","slug":"micah-goodrich","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/profile\/micah-goodrich\/","title":{"rendered":"Micah Goodrich"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a CV please click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Micah Goodrich [he\/they] is assistant professor of English with affiliations in Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Global Medieval Studies at Boston University. He received his PhD at the University of Connecticut in 2020. Their book manuscript \u201cMercurial Natures: Trans Hermeneutics and Chaucerian Bodytexts\u201d details a literary history of bodily and textual mutability in the work of Geoffrey Chaucer. Their approach to Chaucer\u2019s archive is informed by recent work in medieval gender and sexuality studies and the history of the body, which they bring into conversation with the methodologies of transgender studies.<\/p>\n

Micah\u2019s areas of interest include medieval and early modern literature, trans studies, history of the body, queer theory, hermeneutics and interpretation, nature, alchemy, Chaucer, and Langland. His work is forthcoming in Diacritics<\/em> (co-authored with Danielle Allor),<\/em> A Cultural History of Gender, 500-1400 CE, <\/em>and The Companion to Sexuality in the Medieval West<\/em>. Currently, he is co-editing with J.D. Sargan A Cultural History of Trans Lives, 300-1450. <\/em>Micah serves on the Editorial Board of postmedieval<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Micah teaches courses on a variety of medieval genres \u2013 including poetry, hagiography, scientific and medical texts, and histories \u2013 literary theory and criticism, and classes on trans and queer studies. In the classroom, Micah is inspired by alternative medias (self-published zines, informational pamphlets, and independent presses) and DIY histories to center creation and communication. As they tell their students, \u201cDIY\u201d in this mode does not mean \u201cDo It Yourself\u201d in the sense of isolated work; rather, it is a process of equipping the self with the tools needed to enact a creative vision. It is the practice of creating without the aid of professionals and with limited or differently sourced resources.<\/p>\n

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Teaching and Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n

Medieval and early modern literature<\/p>\n

Literary theory<\/p>\n

Literary history of the body<\/p>\n

Gender, sexuality, embodiment<\/p>\n

Dream visions, personification, allegory<\/p>\n

Medieval natural philosophy and science<\/p>\n

Premodern transgender studies<\/p>\n

Premodern critical race studies<\/p>\n

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Selected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forthcoming – \u201cAn Herbal Triptych: Queer Intimacies and the Vegetal Middle Ages,\u201d in \u201cQueer Environs\u201d Special Issue in Diacritics, <\/em>ed. Austin Lillywhite and Nicole Seymour. Co-Authored with Danielle Allor.<\/p>\n

Forthcoming – \u201cPhilosophy and Science,\u201d in A Cultural History of Gender, 500-1400CE<\/em>, eds. Susan Broomhall and Clare Davidson. (Bloomsbury Series, 2025)<\/p>\n

Forthcoming – \u201cMedieval Intersex: Discourses and Discontents\u201d,\u201d in The Companion to Sexuality in the Medieval West<\/em>, eds. Jenny Bledsoe and Michelle Sauer. (Arc Humanities Press, 2025)<\/p>\n

\u201cTrans Antagonisms and Affirmations in Henry Medwall\u2019s Nature<\/em>,\u201d in Special Issue \u201cMedieval Trans Natures\u201d for Medieval Ecocriticisms <\/em>4.1 (2024): 117-138.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrans Animacies and Premodern Alchemies,\u201d in Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements<\/em>, eds. Jane Bonsall, Meagan Khoury, and Basil Arnould Price. The New Middle Ages Series. (Palgrave, 2023): 199-223.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Yeoman\u2019s Canon: On Toxic Mentors,\u201d in the \u201cHistoricizing Consent\u201d Colloquium, eds. Carissa Harris and Fiona Somerset, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer<\/em> 44 (2022): 297-306.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaimed Limbs and Biosalvation: Rehabilitation Politics in Piers Plowman<\/em>,\u201d in Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern, <\/em>eds. Anna K\u0142osowska, Greta LaFleur, and Masha Raskolnikov (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021): 353-395.<\/p>\n

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Work in Progress<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMercurial Natures: Trans Hermeneutics and Chaucerian Bodytexts\u201d (Monograph)<\/p>\n

\u201cTrans Studies and Critical Disability Studies,\u201d in The Oxford Handbook of Disability and Literatures in English<\/em>, c. 700\u20131500<\/em>, ed. Richard H. Godden, Tory Pearman, Leah Pope-Parker. (Expected 2026)<\/p>\n

\u201cPoetic Making and the Trans- Middle Ages,\u201d in The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Late Medieval English Literature<\/em>, ed. Holly Crocker. (Expected 2026). Co-Authored with Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntroduction: What is Gender?\u201d in A Cultural History of Trans Lives, 300-1450<\/em> with J.D. Sargan. (Bloomsbury, projected 2027)<\/p>\n

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