Julie K. Chamberlin

I am a Lecturer in English with a specialization in medieval and early modern literature at Loyola University Chicago. 

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I regularly teach courses on literature and writing. Recent courses include: Exploring Drama, Shakespeare and the Law, Renaissance Literature, Exploring Shakespeare, Interpreting Literature: Form and Transformation, Writing Responsibly (first-year composition), and Business Writing. 

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My academic research focuses on the intersection of medieval literature and concepts of legal personhood during a period of linguistic and political transition in England (twelfth through fourteenth centuries). I read animal fables that involve court scenes and arbitration alongside legal documents such as law books and coroner's rolls, arguing that medieval writers used animal fable as a space in which ideas of what it means to speak at law and to be a vulnerable body before the law could be defined, contested, and reimagined.