Emily Steiner, Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, received her BA from Brown University and her PhD from Yale. She is the editor of the journal The Yearbook of Langland Studies, and the author of two books, Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Reading ‘Piers Plowman’ (Cambridge University Press, 2013). She has co-edited several collection of essays, The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England (Cornell University Press, 2002), with Candace Barrington, Thinking Historically About Historicism (a special issue of the Chaucer Review, 2014), and, with Lynn Ransom, Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts (2015). Her articles have appeared in The Yearbook of Langland Studies, New Medieval Literatures, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Representations, and Exemplaria, among other journals. She is presently working on a new book on medieval macrogenres (encyclopedias, universal histories, etc.), starring the fourteenth-century prose translator, John Trevisa. She is also editing, with Jen Jahner and Elizabeth Tyler, the Cambridge History of History Writing: England and the British Isles, 500-1500.
Supported by the Office of the Secretary and Vice President for Student Life and The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund at Yale University