Professor Bose is Christopher Tower Official Student and Tutor in Medieval Poetry in English, Christ Church College, Oxford University. Professor Bose’s work on medieval religious dissent, medieval scholasticism and literary authority have for many years been at the forefront of criticism in her field. Her research involves late medieval English literature and culture, scholasticism/humanism and their impact on vernacular writing, the relationships and exchanges between different intellectual cultures during the period, and the influence of medieval French poetry on English writing.
In 2008, Professor Bose edited with Patrick Hornbeck Wycliffite Controversies, a collection central to the study of medieval dissent and religious authority. Among her other important publications are “Reversing the Life of Christ: Dissent, Orthodoxy and Affectivity,” “Writing, Heresy and the Anticlerical Muse,” “Complaint, Prophecy and Pastoral Care in the Fifteenth Century: Thomas Gascoigne’s Liber Veritatum,” and “Vernacular Philosophy and the Making of Orthodoxy in the Fifteenth Century.”
Professor Bose’s recent research focuses upon the cognitive turn in the study of medieval intellectuality. Her forthcoming work on medieval neuroplasticity, emotion, and the thinking mind as an object of late-medieval reformist discourse inform the lecture she is to present at Yale, entitled “Journeys of the Mind.”