“Calling [Herself] Eleanor”: Translike Gender Presentation in Medieval Europe
Until relatively recently, historians did not consider transness a possibility for medieval people, as Eleanor Rykener’s case demonstrates.
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Nico Mara-McKay
Project Management | Strategic Storytelling | Community Engagement
Nico Mara-McKay
Project Management | Strategic Storytelling | Community Engagement
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Encounters in Medieval Trans Studies at Kalamazoo 2023
I am excited to present a panel entitled Encounters in Medieval Trans Studies at the International Congress on Medieval Studies.
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CFP: Encounters in Medieval Trans Studies 2023
I am organizing a panel hosted by the Society for Queer Medieval Studies for the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) that will take place in May 2023.
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See me at the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2022
My paper is titled “Thinking through Silence and Transness in Medieval Literary Texts,” and looks at a thirteenth-century verse romance.
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Introducing A Trans and Translike Medieval Bibliography
There are a number of great lists of queer books and articles that focus on the Middle Ages, but I couldn’t find anything that specifically centred medieval trans and translike figures, so I decided to create one.
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See me at the Sexual Diversity Studies Student Research Colloquium
I will be presenting my paper “‘Calling [Herself] Eleanor’: Translike Gender Presentation in
Medieval Europe” on Friday, 26 March 2021 at 11:40 am EST.
