Jenna McKellips

My dissertation uses late medieval East Anglian drama, particularly the Digby Mary Magdalene, to read late medieval English "virginity" as an identity at the intersection of asexuality and nonbinary gender identity, including further examinations of this identity's intersections of disability and race. I supplement my academic work in medieval drama with theatrical work, including performing Hrosvitha's Dulcitius with the University of Toronto's Poculi Ludique Societas and working on a French production of Le Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine with the Université de Fribourg in Switzerland. I am particularly interested in the ways that the digital humanities can support medieval research, as well as gender and sexualities research. I am the research co-lead of The Asexuality and Aromanticism Bibliography, run with a University of Toronto Critical Digital Humanities Initiative Graduate Partner grant (alongside Professor Liza Blake), and I used the 2020 Medieval Academy of America's New Horizon's grant to translate, adapt, and direct a version of the Digby Mary Magdalene on a digital platform. I currently work as a digital indexer for the Records of Early English Drama.

Publications

McKellips, Jenna M. “Miraculous Monstrosity: Birth and Female Sexuality in the Illuminated Scivias and Cloisters Apocalypse.” Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, vol. 56, no. 2, 2020, pp. 176– 203.