Lindsay Ragle-Miller- PhD Candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill, Teaching Fellow for ENGL 105
Lindsay Ragle-Miller
Phd Student in English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill
I am currently a fifth-year PhD candidate at the University of North-Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I teach ENGL 105, the introductory composition course. My research focuses in later Medieval poetry, particularly through the lenses of affect studies. My dissertation examines sorrow in later medieval dream visions, using Thomas Aquinas’s definition of sorrow and its remedies as a guideline.
I earned my BA in English with Teacher’s Certification from Eastern Illinois University in 2009. Even then, I was interested in Medieval Studies, as I was one of the first students to earn an interdisciplinary minor in Medieval Studies. I taught high school English and Special Education for six years before returning to college to work on my MA.
During my MA at Wayne State University, I continued my study of medieval literature, working closely with the resident medievalist Hilary Fox. My master’s thesis, “’I Can So Just Sit Here and Cry’: Depression, Melancholy, and Acedia in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis,” explored the connections between mental disability and medical treatment in Confessio Amantis. I continued to present at several conferences, the details of which are available on the CV page.
While at Wayne State, I took several classes in early modern literature, focusing on Queer Theory, with Dr. Simone Chess. During two semesters, our class worked together to create “The Woman Warrior Project” website, a digital collection of Diane Dugaw’s thesis that collected and cataloged ballads about Women Warriors in the early modern period.
At UNC, I participate in several pedagogy related activities, including the PIT Journal cohort and peer mentoring. I am also active in the English department’s graduate student organization, CoLEAGS, and I try to advocate for my fellow graduate students.
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