Robyn A. Bartlett
- Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies // English
- Associate Professor // Medieval and Renaissance Studies // SIS
Research Focus
Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve; late medieval religious literature and culture
Office and Contact
Room: SC 216
Email: rmalo@purdue.edu
Biography
Robyn A. Bartlett (formerly Malo; PhD, Ohio State University, 2007) joined the department of English at Purdue in 2008 and is associate professor of Middle English Literature. She works on Chaucer, Hoccleve, and late medieval religious literature and culture. She is the author of Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England (Toronto, 2013) and recently co-chaired the Biennial Congress for the New Chaucer Society (2020, conference held in 2022).
Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in PMLA, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, and The Chaucer Review, among other places. She is currently finishing a book, The Porous Subject: Domestic Confession and Neighbor Love in Late Medieval England, that explores the history of late medieval confession and of subjectivity, arguing that medieval confessional literature encourages a kind of open and vulnerable subjectivity, one that emerges in the interstices between people. Her interests extend to include the role of mindfulness in classroom teaching.
Professor Bartlett regularly teaches undergraduate courses on literary studies and literary theory, and graduate and undergraduate courses on Chaucer.