Abigail Greff
Areas of Expertise
- Old and Middle English
- Gender and sexuality studies
Education
- PhD, English, The Ohio State University
- MA, English, Boston University
- BA, English, The University of Puget Sound
Abigail Greff is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English whose academic interests include late Middle English literature and gender and sexuality studies. Her research focuses on the intersections of genre, asexuality, and conceptions of consent in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English romance and hagiography. Recent publications include “Consent and Mystical Marriage in the Late Middle English Prose Life of St. Katherine and John Capgrave’s The Life of St. Katherine,” published in The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures. An enthusiastic teacher of both writing and literature, she has taught and served as a GTA for courses in first- and second-year writing, business writing, science fiction, Shakespeare, and early British literature.