Emily Steiner

American Medievalist
Emily Steiner
Academic background
Alma materBrown University
ThesisWhen the problem exceeds the presence : English attitudes towareds Jews in post-expulsion sermonic literature (1993)

Emily Steiner is the Rose Family Endowed Chair Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is known for her work on medieval literature and middle English literature and culture.

Education and career

Steiner has a Bachelors of Arts from Brown University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University. Steiner started teaching at the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor in the Department of English in 1999, and was promoted to associate professor in 2005.[citation needed] The University of Pennsylvania raised Steiner to the role of full professor in 2015 and the Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English in 2021,[citation needed] a position that she holds as of 2022.[1]

Selected publications  

  • Steiner, Emily; Barrington, Candace, eds. (2002-04-01). The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England. Cornell University Press.[2]
  • Steiner, Emily (2003). Documentary culture and the making of medieval English literature. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82484-2. OCLC 51914335.[3]
  • Steiner, Emily (2013). Reading Piers Plowman. Cambridge. ISBN 978-0-521-86820-4. OCLC 822971454.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[4]
  • Steiner, Emily; Ransom, Lynn, eds. (2015). Taxonomies of knowledge : information and order in medieval manuscripts. Philadelphia. ISBN 978-0-8122-4759-6. OCLC 910239505.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[5]
  • Steiner, Emily (2021). John Trevisa's information age : knowledge and the pursuit of literature, c. 1400 (First ed.). Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-265082-5. OCLC 1264709826.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

  1. ^ "Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
  2. ^ Review of The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Late Medieval England
    • Liu, Wenxi (2003). "Review of The Letter of Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 34 (2): 510–511. doi:10.2307/20061449. ISSN 0361-0160. JSTOR 20061449.
  3. ^ Reviews for Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature
    • Vaughan, Míċeál F. (2005). "Review of Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 104 (2): 294–296. ISSN 0363-6941. JSTOR 27712506.
    • Clanchy, M. T. (2005). "Review of Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature". Law and History Review. 23 (1): 206–208. doi:10.1017/S0738248000000122. ISSN 0738-2480. JSTOR 30042851. S2CID 144359792.
    • Joy, Eileen A. (2005). "Review of Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 36 (2): 519–521. doi:10.2307/20477400. ISSN 0361-0160. JSTOR 20477400.
  4. ^ Reviews for Reading "Piers Plowman"  
    • Breen, Katharine (2015). "Review of Reading "Piers Plowman"". Speculum. 90 (4): 1169–1170. doi:10.1017/S0038713415001748. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 43884102.
    • "Reading "Piers Plowman" by Emily Steiner (review)". Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 36 (1): 341–344. 2014-11-05. doi:10.1353/sac.2014.0007. S2CID 160515176.
  5. ^ Reviews for Taxonomies of Knowledge in the Middle Ages
    • Burrows, Toby (2017). "Review of Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts. (Lawrence J. Schoenberg Studies in Manuscript Culture 2.)". Speculum. 92 (2): 586–587. doi:10.1086/690663. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 26340256.
    • PINET, SIMONE; RANSOM, LYNN (2018). "Review of Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts, STEINER EMILY, RANSOMLYNN". Revista Hispánica Moderna. 71 (1): 110–109. ISSN 0034-9593. JSTOR 90021786.
    • Tortosa, Paul-Arthur (2017-05-04). "Taxonomies of knowledge: information and order in medieval manuscripts". European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire. 24 (3): 491–493. doi:10.1080/13507486.2017.1283821. ISSN 1350-7486. S2CID 148820337.
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