Matthew Aiello
Matthew Aiello is a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation is currently titled "Writing Under Duress: Trauma and Repetition in Early England (c.1000-1270)."
He has been one of the coordinators for the Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) working group since 2018, as well as the Palaeography Reading Group. Get in touch if you’d like to be added to either listserv.
BA (honors) English, Stanford University: 2015
MSt English (650-1550), University of Oxford: 2016
Mellon Fellowship Post-Classical Latin, UCLA: 2017
MA English, UPenn: 2019
PhD English, UPenn: (expected 2022/3)
Articles and Book Chapters
"English Vernacular Script in the Thirteenth Century (c.1175-c.1325)" New Medieval Literatures (2021)
"Books in Battle: The Violent Poetics of Misdirection in Old English Riddle 53" Review of English Studies (2020)
"(Re)Counting Rape in Alfred's Domboc and Early English Law" Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2017)
"The Curious Production and Reconstruction of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 85 and 86" Essays and Studies: Textual Distortions (2017)
News & Events
2019/02/22
2018/03/17