Special Issue of Medieval Ecocriticisms: Trans Natures

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This special issue explores how medieval literatures relate gender variance to landscapes and nonhuman creatures. Its contributors consider questions such as: how do bestiaries and lais use fluidly gendered animals to denaturalize masculinity and femininity? What challenges might the porous bodies of medieval texts pose to notions of trans identities as “unnatural”? How do premodern portrayals of trans and intersex people naturalize racial difference? And how might we return to medieval texts that have been read from an environmental perspective without significant consideration of gender, or vice versa, and begin to bridge these gaps?

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Medieval Ecocriticisms – Volume 4 (2024)

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Medieval Ecocriticisms 4

Articles

Introduction: Medieval Trans Natures

Aylin Malcolm and Nat Rivkin

Settler Fantasies and Queer Disruptions: A Nonbinary Reading of Gerald’s Wolves

Sarah LaVoy-Brunette and Jordan Chauncy

Birds, Blood, and Nonbinary Bodies in Marie de France’s “Yonec”

Aylin Malcolm

Cautious Lion, Canny Woman: Queer Animality in “La Response du bestiaire”

Tess Wingard

Trans Activisms and Interspecies Entanglement in the Middle English “Patience”

Ellis Light

Of Giantesses, Greenland, and Trans Ecology in “Jökuls þáttr Búasonar”

Basil Price

Trans Antagonisms and Affirmations in Henry Medwall’s “Nature”

Micah Goodrich

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Aylin Malcolm

Assistant Professor at University of Guelph
Originally from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Aylin Malcolm is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Guelph. They recently completed a Ph.D. in premodern literature & environmental humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. For more information about their work, visit https://aylinmalcolm.com.
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