Bio
Danielle Allor teaches medieval and early modern literature. Her courses combine reading texts from the past with learning historical practices like measuring the stars with an astrolabe or making medieval ink. Her classes include British Literature Before 1600, Premodern Life of Trees, and Chaucer.
Her scholarship on literary representations of nature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their intersections with poetics, disability, and sexuality have appeared in journals such as Diacritics, Exemplaria, Medieval Ecocriticisms, and Yearbook of Langland Studies, as well as in edited collections. Her first book project, Literary Nature: Trees and the Making of Vernacular Poetry in Late Medieval England, argues that fourteenth- and fifteenth-century authors from Langland to Skelton used the tree figure to consolidate, theorize, and naturalize an English poetic tradition.
She has previously taught at Rutgers University, where she earned her Ph.D., and Haverford College.