English Department
Amy Juarez

Amy Juarez

Job Title
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Karp Hall 209
Pronouns
she/her/hers

Areas of expertise

Medieval Literature

Research interests

Material culture; visual arts; poetry and poetics; conceptions of embodiment; Health Humanities; theories of archive and practice; Digital Humanities.

Publications

“Medicine and Measurement: Health and the Architected Body in John Lydgate’s Dietary and Leon Battista Alberti’s De re aedificatoria,” Special Issue on EDIA, Florilegium. 2026.

“‘Riche stones light’: Chromatic, Textural, and Formal Hierarchies in Sir Orfeo,’” (Under Review with Peregrinations)

Book Reviews

Jessica Barker, Stone Fidelity: Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture (The Boydell Press, 2020), Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, Volume 59, No. 1.

Digital Project

Medieval Matters: a public-facing podcast, launching officially in Fall of 2024, that aims to discuss the varied and heterogeneous nature of the medieval past and its connection to the present. Episodes, featuring solo and guest appearances, are geared towards making publicly accessible critical conversations within medieval studies, inviting listeners to consider why the medieval matters.

Distinctions

2024 Podcasting the Humanities Institute, National Humanities Center

2023--24 Schallek Fellowship, Medieval Academy of America & Richard III Society

2022 Summer Research Grant, Medieval Academy of America, Yale University

2022 Kress Travel Grant, International Center of Medieval Art

Academic credentials

Ph.D. English Literature, UC Riverside; M.A, English Literature, UC Riverside; B.A. English and Art History, UC Riverside