Richard Godden
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis
rgodden1@lsu.edu
114 Allen Hall
Biography
Richard H. Godden is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He works primarily on medieval romance, Chaucer, and representations of disability and monstrosity in the Middle Ages. His monograph-in-progress, Material Subjects: An Ecology of Prosthesis in Medieval Literature and Culture, focuses on the material objects with which medieval bodies were so intimate, and explores the intersections of disability and the agency of things in the Middle Ages. He is co-editor of both the collection Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World and of The Open Access Companion to The Canterbury Tales, and he is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Disability and Literatures in English, c. 700–1500.
Area(s) of Interest
Medieval Literature and Culture, Disability Studies, Monstrosity, Ecocriticism, Digital Humanities, Medieval Romance, Chaucer