天美传媒

Dr. Elizaveta Strakhov天美传媒

天美传媒 Hall, 242

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-6865yelizaveta.strakhov@marquette.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor

English

I work on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century literary exchange between Francophone regions of medieval Europe (England, France, Northern Spain, Northern Italy, and what are now modern-day French Switzerland, French Belgium, and the Netherlands). My research engages with transnationalism studies, translation theory, and the history of the material text. I have an A.B. magna cum laude in History and Literature from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to coming to 天美传媒, I was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Medieval French at Northwestern University.

My first book, Continental England: Form, Translation, and Chaucer in the Hundred Years War (Ohio State UP, 2022), emphasizes England鈥檚 Continental presence during the Hundred Years War for new understandings of England鈥檚 relationship to late medieval France and Italy. I have also co-edited, with Megan L. Cook, an anthology of medieval poetry about death and dying, entitled John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works (TEAMS, 2019) and am co-editor, with Sarah Baechle and Carissa Harris, of the edited volume Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature (Penn State UP, 2022). My work on medieval lyric, manuscript miscellanies, and Chaucer has appeared in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, New Literary History, Huntington Library Quarterly, and Yearbook of Langland Studies, among others.  I am currently working on a new book about the rise of translation culture in fifteenth-century England as well as a collaboratively written book on Christine de Pizan's influence on late medieval English literature, under contract with Cambridge University Press.

Like my scholarship, my teaching is committed to investigating the multilingualism and regional diversity of the medieval reading public. In this way, I build my students鈥� sensitivity to the concept of a 鈥渘ational鈥� literary canon. Aided by my material text expertise, I make prominent use, in my teaching, of digitized manuscript archives and digital humanities projects. As I situate the text in its contemporary moment, I also draw it into generative new contexts, such as when I discuss the Peasant鈥檚 Revolt of 1381 in the context of contemporary political protests or use Game of Thrones to think about the modern racial representation of the Middle Ages.

Courses Taught

• HOPR 1955: Honors Core Freshman Seminar 鈥� Brave New Worlds
• ENGL 3301: Here Be Monsters
• ENGL 3302: Crossing Over
• ENGL 3730:  What is a Book?
• ENGL 4303: Studies in the Medieval Literary Imagination 鈥� Castles in the Clouds
• ENGL 4311: Themes in Medieval Literature 鈥� Make Love Not War
• ENGL 4991: Senior Capstone - The History of the Book
• ENGL 6210: Graduate Seminar - British Literature before 1500

Research Interests

• Medieval Literature (English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch)
• History of the Book and Material Text
• Translation Studies
• Nationalism and Transnationalism Studies
• Formalism

Publications

Selected

Books

•  (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2022)
• , ed. Sarah Baechle, Carissa Harris, and Elizaveta Strakhov (Penn State University Press, 2022)
•  ed. Megan L. Cook and Elizaveta Strakhov (Western Michigan University Press, 2019)

Articles and Book Chapters 

Honors and Awards

• • 天美传媒, Provost's Office Research Enhancing One-Course Teaching Release for Spring 2026 (2025)
  • 天美传媒 Summer Faculty Fellowship and Regular Research Grant (2024)
  • 天美传媒 Goeddin Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence (2025)
  • American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant (declined) (2019)
  • Bibliographic Society of America Short-Term Fellowship (2019)
  • Huntington Library Short-Term Fellowship (2017)
  • Rare Book School Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography (2015-17)

Additional Information

Office Hours

Spring 2026

• Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm to 3:30pm
  
  • Or by Appointment 

Teaching Schedule

Spring 2026

• ENGL 3720-101:  What is a Book?
  • Tuesday and Thursday 12:30PM-1:45PM
• ENGL 4995-101:  Independent Study in English
  • TBA