Julie Chamberlin

About

Dr. Chamberlin is an Advanced Lecturer in English with a specialization in medieval and early modern literature. 

Her recent courses include Studies in Shakespeare, Exploring Shakespeare, Exploring Drama, Renaissance Literature, Interpreting Literature: Form and Transformation, Writing Responsibly, and Business Writing. 

She is currently working on a book project titled Interpreting Legal Personhood in Animal Literature of the Middle Ages (under contract with the Ohio State University Press). Her academic research focuses on the intersection of medieval animal literature and concepts of legal personhood during a period of linguistic and legal transition in England. 

Degrees

• BA,University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• PhD, Indiana Univeristy Bloomington

Research Interests

• Medieval British Literature
• Medieval Law
• Fables
• Justice
• Animals
• Ecocriticism
• Posthuman Theory
• Old French
• Middle English

Awards

• Research Support Grant (2024), Loyola University Chicago
• Johnson Scholar Program for First-Book Authors Fellow (2023-24)
• FCIP Faculty Scholar in Assignment Design (2023-24)
  FCIP Micro-Grant Recipient, Loyola University Chicago 2022
• Helen Ann Mins Robbins Dissertation Fellow, University of Rochester, 2018-2019
• Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2015 & 2017

Selected Publications

Articles:

• "'Ful Louder:’ Raising the Hue and Cry in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale.” The Chaucer Review 59.1 (January 2024), 62–83.
• “Animal Trials in The Advocate.” Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction Through Film. eds. Esther Cuenca, M. Christina Bruno, and Tony Perron. Accepted under contract with Fordham University Press, expected 2024.
• “Fable.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia, 4 Volumes. Ed. Richard Newhauser (Wiley-Blackwell, June 2023).
• “Book Review: Animal Soundscapes in Anglo-Norman Texts by Liam Lewis.” Literature & History 31.2 (Nov. 2022), 178–180.
• “Philosophie and Folie: Translating Suffering in Marie de France’s Fables.” Le Cygne: International Journal of the Marie de France Society. Vol. 3 (Fall 2016), 21–38.