Renée R. Trilling
Associate Professor of English, Medieval Studies, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Comparative and World Literature
Contact Information
- Address: 337 English Building
- Telephone: 217-244-5655
- Email: trilling@illinois.edu
Office Hours
- AY 2011-2012: on leave
Education
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2004
Courses
Undergraduate courses include Old English language and literature, Chaucer, medieval women writers, historiography, modern medievalisms, and critical theory. Recent graduate seminars have focused on history, literature, and state formation in early medieval England; on Beowulf, the poem and its critical contexts; and on forms of alterity in the Middle Ages.
Research Interests
Old and Middle English literature; theories of historiography and nationalism; linguistics and philology; new materialisms and body studies
Selected Publications
Books
- The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Old English Verse . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
Book Contributions
- "Sovereignty and Social Order: Archbishop Wulfstan and the Institutes of Polity." The Bishop Reformed: Studies in Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages. Ed. Anna T. Jones and John S. Ott. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 58-85.
Journal Articles
- Trilling, Renée R. "Before and After Theory: Seeing through the Body in Early Medieval England." postmedieval 1.3 (2010): 1 Nov. 2010.
- "Ruins in the Realm of Thoughts: Reading as Constellation in Anglo-Saxon Poetry." JEGP 108.2 (2009): 141-67.
- "The Order of Things in Anglo-Saxon Studies: Categorization and the Construction of a Discipline." Literature Compass 5.3 (2008): 472-92.
- "Beyond Abjection: The Problem with Grendel's Mother Again." Parergon 24.1 (2007): 1-20.
Works in Progress
- A Handbook to Anglo-Saxon Studies, a co-edited volume of essays examining the influence of contemporary critical discourses on Anglo-Saxon studies.
- A book-length study that draws on recent trends in neuroscience and related fields to to explore the role of the body in the production of subjectivity in Anglo-Saxon literature.
