Session Format: Seminar
This session invites scholars to bring Chaucer and the Lancastrian poets in
conversation with the latest criticism and theoretical underpinnings in
relation to queer and trans studies of the last few years. Particularly, using
time as a teleological field to measure queer and trans experience,
embodiment, and memoir. Chaucerian and medieval studies have been33
responsible for groundbreaking work over the years on pre-modern
conceptions of gender and sexuality. However, those fields are also
responsible for the perpetuation of cisgender/cissexual centred optics that
have continued to influence the reception of texts like The Canterbury