Participant Info

First Name
Leah
Last Name
Parker
Affiliation
University of Southern Mississippi
Website URL
www.leahpopeparker.com
Keywords
medieval, disability, literature, Old English, Middle Ages
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About Me

I research literary histories of disability in Old and Middle English literature.

Recent Publications

Light of the Everlasting Life: Disability and Crip Eschatology in Old English Literature, Corporealities: Discourses of Disability (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 26 August 2025).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12571891.

Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages, ed. Stephanie Grace-Petinos, Leah Pope Parker, and Alicia Spencer-Hall, Hagiography Beyond Tradition (Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2025).

Media Coverage
Country Focus
England
Expertise by Geography
England, United Kingdom, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Medieval
Expertise by Topic
Disability, Gender, Literary History, Sexuality, Women