Carroll Balot

Carroll Hilles Balot is sessional lecturer of English. She received her Ph.D. from Duke University in 1994 and taught at Union College in Schenectady, NY, and Washington University in St. Louis, MO, before coming to the University of Toronto in 2005. Her research has focused on late medieval devotional literature, with particular attention to gender and sexuality, and she has published articles on Julian of Norwich and Osbern Bokenham. More recently she has been writing a series of articles on genre and aesthetics in Chaucer's poetry, developing an interpretive approach that draws on object relations psychoanalysis.