Joe is a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Humanities and a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago, where he studies the literature and culture of medieval England. He holds a Ph. D. in English from Yale and has held fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, and the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at Chicago. He is currently at work on a book project on alchemical literature in medieval England as an archive of literary thinking and experience. He is also a coeditor of the Treatise on the Astrolabe for the Cambridge Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer with Jenna Mead.
Website: JoeStadolnik.com
Selected Publications
“Guitar Lessons at Blackfriars: Vernacular Medicine and Preachers’ Style in Henry Daniel’s Liber uricrisiarum.” In Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Interpretation, Invention, Imagination, ed. Ardis Butterfield, Ian Johnson, and A. B. Kraebel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 116–36.
“Little Lewis and Latin Folk in Chaucer’s Prologue to the Treatise on the Astrolabe.” JEGP 122.3 (July 2022): 359–82.
“Reading Dives and Pauper in Lisbon, 1465.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 43 (2021): 180–221.
For a complete list of publications, see my CV.
Courses
Reading Cultures I: Collection
Reading Cultures II: Travel
Reading Cultures IIII: Exchange