Associate Professor

About

  • Role:

    Faculty

  • Position:

    • Associate Professor

  • Concentration:

    • Literature

  • Department:

    • English

  • Education:

    • B.A., English, University of Virginia
    • M.A. and Ph.D., English, New York University

Biography

Lynn Shutters is a medievalist whose academic interests include the following:

  • representations of love, sex, and marriage in medieval literature
  • the reception of classical antiquity in medieval literature
  • representations of non-Western peoples in medieval literature
  • transhistorical comparison
  • emotion/affect studies
  • medievalism

She teaches a wide range of courses at CSU including those focusing on Chaucer/medieval literature; Shakespeare; medievalism; literary theory; modern women writers; and academic writing.

She is currently at work on a monograph titled Chaucer's Pagan Women.

Publications

Select Recent Publications:

Edited Collections

  • A New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer, with Stephanie L. Batkie and Matthew Irvin. Arc Companions. Arc Humanities Press, 2021.
  • Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters, with Karina F. Attar. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Journal Special Issue

“Looking Forward, Looking Back on the Legend of Good Women [Special Issue],” with Betsy McCormick and Leah Schwebel. The Chaucer Review, vol. 52, no. 1, 2017, pp. 1–166.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • “The Beauties and Beasts of Medieval Romance.” A Cultural History of the Fairy Tale in the Middle Ages, edited by Susan Aronstein, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, pp. 63-87.
  • “Sodom, Bretons, and Ill-Defined Borders: Questing for Queerness with the Knight of the Tower.” Medieval Futurity: Essays for the Future of a Queer Medieval Studies, edited by Will Rogers and Christopher Michael Roman, Walter de Gruyter, Inc., 2021, pp. 83–106.
  • “The Host, the Man of Law’s Tale, and the Fantasy of the Foreign Wife.” The Chaucer Review, vol. 55, no. 4, 2020, pp. 397–421.
  • “The Thought and Feel of Virtuous Wifehood: Recovering Emotion in the Legend of Good Women.” The Chaucer Review, vol. 52, no. 1, 2017, pp. 85–105.
  • “Boccaccio, Christine de Pizan, and Marital Affection: The Case for Common Ground.” Comparative Literature, vol. 68, no. 3, Sept. 2016, pp. 274–95.