Shoshana Adler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4370795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shoshana Adler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shoshana |
| FAMILY NAME | Adler |
| SIGNATURE | ADLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150–1200
Claustrophobia, Race, and The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man
The universal Christian subject at the center of The Pilgrimage of the Lyf of Manhode is a figure dependent on racist difference for a coherent experience of self. This essay focuses on the allegorical scene of perception, in which the deformed body of a personified figure becomes an exercise in pedagogical explanation. Taking claustrophobia as symptomatic of the poem’s investment in sensory information, the essay explores a neglected figure, a b…
Spoiled History: Leprosy and the Lessons of Queer Medieval Historiography
White supremacists fetishize the crusading knight; queer theorists claim an identification with the generative secret of the premodern sodomite. This essay attends to the epistemological circuits of transhistorical identification, examining the claims of recursive history and the theories of attachment betrayed by identification with the medieval past. Turning away from the solicitations of the crusader and the sodomite, the essay excavates histo…
Spoiled History: Leprosy and the Lessons of Queer Medieval Historiography
White supremacists fetishize the crusading knight; queer theorists claim an identification with the generative secret of the premodern sodomite. This essay attends to the epistemological circuits of transhistorical identification, examining the claims of recursive history and the theories of attachment betrayed by identification with the medieval past. Turning away from the solicitations of the crusader and the sodomite, the essay excavates histo…
Claustrophobia, Race, and The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man
The universal Christian subject at the center of The Pilgrimage of the Lyf of Manhode is a figure dependent on racist difference for a coherent experience of self. This essay focuses on the allegorical scene of perception, in which the deformed body of a personified figure becomes an exercise in pedagogical explanation. Taking claustrophobia as symptomatic of the poem’s investment in sensory information, the essay explores a neglected figure, a b…
Spoiled History: Leprosy and the Lessons of Queer Medieval Historiography
White supremacists fetishize the crusading knight; queer theorists claim an identification with the generative secret of the premodern sodomite. This essay attends to the epistemological circuits of transhistorical identification, examining the claims of recursive history and the theories of attachment betrayed by identification with the medieval past. Turning away from the solicitations of the crusader and the sodomite, the essay excavates histo…
Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150–1200
Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Medieval Literature and History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · White (mutation (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Allegory (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)