Lara Farina

Lara Farina specializes in medieval literature and culture, sensory studies, and histories of embodiment. She is the author of Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing (Palgrave) and of articles on practices of reading, sensory history, and queer theory. From 2015–2020, she also edited of the award-winning journal postmedieval (https://link.springer.com/journal/41280 ).

Her current research focuses on the sense of touch in the Middle Ages and on imaginations (both medieval and modern) of non-human forms of perception. This work has led her toward ecocritical approaches to cultural study and to experimental forms of scholarly publication.