Brandon Hachey

Brandon is a second-year PhD student in English and the Book History and Print Culture collaborative specialization. He      researches late medieval literature ca. 1300–1500, with a particular focus on romance and manuscript studies. His research explores the interconnections between ecological environments and representations of gender in Middle English romances. He seeks to consider how these premodern and decidedly non-realist texts can respond to, embody, and challenge modern theories of ecofeminism, environmentalism, and ecological care, schools of thought which themselves are often grounded in realist perspectives. Studies of manuscripts and palaeography are central to his research methodology, particularly in how they might evince the extent of medieval conceptions of "care."