Emily Steiner is the Rose Family Endowed Chair Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is known for her work on medieval literature and middle English literature and culture.

Emily Steiner
Academic background
Alma materBrown University
ThesisWhen the problem exceeds the presence : English attitudes towareds Jews in post-expulsion sermonic literature (1993)

Education and career

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Steiner has a Bachelors of Arts from Brown University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University. Steiner started teaching at the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor in the Department of English in 1999, and was promoted to associate professor in 2005.[citation needed] The University of Pennsylvania raised Steiner to the role of full professor in 2015 and the Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English in 2021,[citation needed] a position that she holds as of 2022.[1]

Selected publications  

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  • Steiner, Emily; Barrington, Candace, eds. (2002-04-01). The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England. Cornell University Press.[2]
  • Steiner, Emily (2003). Documentary culture and the making of medieval English literature. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-82484-2. OCLC 51914335.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Department of English". www.english.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2022-12-13.
  2. ^ Review of The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Late Medieval England
  3. ^ Reviews for Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature
  4. ^ Reviews for Reading "Piers Plowman"  
  5. ^ Reviews for Taxonomies of Knowledge in the Middle Ages