Department of English

Kellie Robertson

Assistant Professor of English

412-624-6532
krobert@pitt.edu

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Kellie Robertson currently serves as Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Research and Publications: She has published articles on Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chaucer, Milton, and postcolonial theory. She is editor (along with Michael Uebel) of a collection of essays, The Middle Ages at Work: Practicing Labor in Late Medieval England (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and author of The Laborer’s Two Bodies: Literary and Legal Productions, 1350-1500 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

  • Chaucer
  • The Medieval Imagination
  • Arthurian Literature
  • Women and Literature

Graduate Courses

  • Medieval to Early Modern: Myths of Origin and Transition
  • Society and Dissent in Early English Literature
  • Medieval to Early Modern: Gender and Discourse
  • History and Representation

University Service

  • Director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
  • Steering Committee, Women’s Studies Program
  • Literature Committee
  • Chair, Graduate Advising Committee (1998–2002)
  • Personnel Committee

Other Duties and Service

  • The Lollard Society, Executive Committee
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant Proposal Review (2000–03)
  • Reviewer for Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Arizona State Medieval and Renaissance Journal and the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies
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