Department of English
Matthew Aiello
(he/him/his)
Matthew Aiello is a fifth-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.1070-1270)."
He is one of the coordinators for the Premodern Studies Seminar, as well as the Palaeography Reading Group. Please 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 2023)
Articles and Book Chapters
"Tracing Tancred: An Alternative Genealogy of Trauma Studies" boundary 2 (2023)
"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