{"id":10998,"date":"2015-10-14T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10998"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:53:41","slug":"irit-kleiman","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/profile\/irit-kleiman\/","title":{"rendered":"Irit Ruth Kleiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Research and Teaching<\/h2>\n<p>Irit Kleiman teaches courses on the literatures and cultures of medieval and Renaissance France in a global context, and serves on the faculty of the BU Core Curriculum in the Humanities.<\/p>\n<p>Her interdisciplinary research asks questions about the writing of history; the cultural production of memory; dialogues between literature and the Law; affect; material culture; and sensory encounters, especially tactile. Much of her critical writing is informed by an ongoing engagement with the intellectual legacies of psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n<p>Kleiman\u2019s most recent book, <em>The Hell of Holy War: Reading Joinville\u2019s Crusade Memoir<\/em> is forthcoming with Cornell University Press (2026).<\/p>\n<p>Her first book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00BY9EWTQ?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_CXQ9QMJNJ5JQ7PTJFTEQ\">Philippe de Commynes: Memory, Betrayal, Text<\/a><\/em> (University of Toronto Press, 2013), received the Newberry Library\u2019s Weiss\/Brown Award. She is the editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B017KUOW5Q?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_GE33TCNR3N32R9FD7STT\"><em>Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe<\/em><\/a> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>Kleiman is the convener of the February 2026 conference-workshop \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/events\/architectures-of-the-apocalypse\/\">Architectures of the Apocalypse<\/a>,\u201d and a public humanities fellow with the Boston University <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/misi\/fellowships\/\">Center for Media Innovation and Social Impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6030,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6030"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27196,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10998\/revisions\/27196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}