Una Creedon-Carey

My research on early medieval English literature uses the methods and ethical commitments of queer theory and the posthuman turn to analyze the conceptual structures behind medieval processes of oppression and marginalization. My dissertation project, “Before the Human: Early Medieval English Belonging and Exclusion,” tracks literary constructions of human faculties in Old English literature in order to dismantle the human as an exclusionary category both in the Middle Ages and today. Beyond the dissertation, I research the evolving category of the "patient" in medieval literary and medical texts. I run the department's English Paleography Reading Group and am the lab manager for Alex Gillespie's Old Books New Science project.