Matthew Aiello is a second-year Ph.D. student in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated with a BA in English (Honors) from Stanford University in 2015 before going on to earn a Masters in English (650-1550) from the University of Oxford in 2016. In 2016-17, Matthew was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Post-Classical Latin at UCLA. His research interests are broadly concerned with Manuscript Studies, Trauma Theory, and Postcolonial Theory in the High Middle Ages (c.1020-1270).