Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture

About this Cambridge Elements series

Drawing on several decades of gender scholarship, Elements in Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Premodern will project the state of the field into new, interdisciplinary, and intersectional futures. The series focuses on the idea of “crossing borders” of gender, sexuality, geography, temporality, language, culture, and religion to create critical dialogues between often discrete areas of research. The resultant volumes will draw from numerous discourses to produce multi-levelled, critically engaged studies, thereby leading scholarship in new directions, addressing key challenges, and scoping out areas for future research. Beyond queer, feminist, and gender studies, works might engage with such concepts as environmental humanities, race and critical race studies, the posthuman, critical disability studies, materiality and spatial approaches, and temporal investigation amongst other such discourses. The series builds on existing work and offers new opportunities for cutting edge interventions in scholarship within medieval and early modern studies.

Elements are minigraphs – 20-30k words – on key and emerging topics. We are keen to commission as broadly as possible – across language, disciplines and career stage. If you have something you think might be suitable – a new idea you’re starting to develop, or an outcrop of another project, please drop a line to us at elementsingender@gmail.com and we can take the conversation from there.

Contact the Editors

If you are interested in publishing in this series, please contact the editors at: Danielle Clarke (danielle.clarke@ucd.ie) and Michelle M Sauer (michelle.m.sauer@und.edu).