Casey Ireland
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bryan Hall 140E
Office Hours: T/R 12:00-1:00
Class Schedule: T/R 2:00-3:15, 3:30-4:45, 5:00-6:15
Degrees
Ph.D, English, University of Virginia, 2021
M.A., English, University of Virginia, 2013
B.A., History and English Literature, University of Virginia, 2012
Publications:
“Assaying the Deer Drive in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” New Medieval Literatures 21, 2021.
“Discors Concordia: Swamps as Borderlands in Dante’s Inferno.” Neophilologus 104.2, 2020.
Charlottesville Food: A History of Eating Local in Jefferson's City. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2014.
Research Interests:
Early to late medieval English literature, ecocriticism, food studies.
Selected Fellowships and Awards:
Edgar F. Shannon Award, 2021.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2019-2020.
Medieval Academy of America, Helen Maud Cam Dissertation Grant, 2019.
Buckner W. Clay Endowment, Clay Graduate Fellow, 2019.
Buckner W. Clay Endowment, Clay Graduate Fellow, 2019.
Bradley Foundation, Bradley Fellowship, 2017-2018, 2018-2019.
The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, Cherwell Studentship, 2017.
University of Virginia, Summer Fellowship, 2016.
MAA/ CARA, Summer Scholarship, 2015.
Presentations
“‘Bettir knowyng of all countreez and of all passagez’: Translation and Adaptation in The Master of Game.” Biennial London Chaucer Conference, London, UK, June 2019.
“Gawain’s Social Piety and Green Garbage.” International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2017.
“‘Noght wol I knowe compaignye of man’: Narrating Femininity in The Knight's Tale.” New Chaucer Society Conference, London, UK, July 2016.
“Discors Concordia: Swamps as Borderlands in Dante’s Inferno.” Medieval Academy of America Meeting, Boston, MA, February 2016.
“Tasting Blood: The Kill and the Feast in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2015.
