Katherine Walton

Katherine primarily studies Middle English devotional texts and religious signification in English literatures, with specialty in the medieval devotional movement known as “affective piety” and its impacts on social hierarchies and Church politics in England. She has published more widely on affect theory, on trauma studies in the field of twentieth century art history, and has recently released a paper with Graham Greene Studies on the female religious. Katherine is concurrently working on a project that examines attitudes towards senescence during the Middle Ages and the impact of the bubonic plague on medieval England's social and economic structures.