Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Late Medieval Literature
- Gender and Sexuality Studies
Areas of Interest
- Classical reception
- Creative writing
- Translation studies
- Speculative fiction (fantasy and horror)
Biography
Molly Bronstein earned her PhD in Comparative Literature and Medieval Studies from UC Berkeley in 2022. Before coming to Toronto, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the English department of the University of Tübingen in Germany. Her research focuses on translation history and Ovid’s medieval reception.
Molly is also a dark fantasy and horror writer; her short stories and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, Fairy Tale Review, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology, and elsewhere.
Publications
Selected short fiction:
“Boxwood,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming).
“Garden Teeth,” Metaphorosis, 2024.
“The Voices of Nightingales,” Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology, edited by Rena Mason and Vince Liaguno, 278–294. New York: William Morrow, 2022.
“Banhus,” khoréo magazine, 2022. Reprinted in Brave New Weird: The Best New Weird Horror of 2022.
“The Gorgon’s Glass,” PodCastle, 2022.
“The Electric Gate,” Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, 2020.
“Sounds Caught in Cobwebs,” Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, edited by Michael Bailey and Doug Murano, 273–86. Written Backwards, 2020.
Articles:
“Marie de Clèves’s ‘Rien ne m’est plus’: Reshaping Widowhood in the Roman de Troyle,” Medieval Feminist Forum (forthcoming).
“Authenticity through Collaborative (Re)translation: The Ovide moralisé and Its Successors,” in Authenticity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, edited by Rebecca Menmuir, 169–91. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025.