Anna M. Kłosowska

Introduction

Specialties: trans and nonbinary studies, Old French and Occitan, visual and material culture in medieval France. Professor of French and an Affiliate in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Research Interests

• Queer and Trans Studies
• Critical Race Studies
• Postcolonial
• Ecocriticism
• Transnational Feminism

Courses Taught

• FRE 430/530: Global Book Lab (Spring 2023)
• HUM 320 WA: Global Book Lab (Spring 2023)
• FRE 302 and FRE 403/503 : Les arts de la Renaissance (Fall 2023, Spring 2020)
• FRE 600 JA: Les Arts du Moyen Age: Critical Race and Trans Studies (Spring 2021)
• FRE 430/530/WGS 410/510: Race et genre au 16e siècle: Race/Gender in Early Modern French Literature: Colonialism, Africanism, Queer Studies (Spring 2019) cross-listed with Women and Gender Studies
• FRE 443/543: La France médiévale: race et genre au carrefour de la Syrie Romaine, Occitanie et Bretagne//Race/Gender in Medieval French Literature at the Crossroads of Roman Syria, Occitania, and Brittany (Fall 2018)

Education

• Ph.D. French Studies, Brown University (1994)

Publications

Single Author

• 2007 Madeleine de l’Aubespine. Selected Poems and Translations: A Bilingual Edition. Kłosowska, Anna ed. and trans. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 136 pages.
  
• 2005 Kłosowska, Anna. Queer Love in the Middle Ages. The New Middle Ages Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Collaborations

• 2021 Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, and Anna Kłosowska, ed. 2021. Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Reviews: Michael Calabrese, TMR (The Medieval Review), 11.03.2022 https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/35567/38667. 
• 2020 Karkov, Catherine, Anna Kłosowska and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, ed. Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures. punctum books. Peer review. Over 17,000 downloads, current usage statistics at https://punctumbooks.com/usage-statistics/. 
• 2013 Kłosowska, Anna, ed. FAULT cluster in special issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 4.3 (Fall).
• 2013 Joy, Eileen and Anna Kłosowska, ed. On Style: An Atelier. punctum books. Peer Review.
• 2013 Joy, Eileen, Anna Kłosowska, Nicola Masciandaro and Michael O’Rourke, ed. Speculative Medievalisms: Discography. punctum books. Peer review.
• 2011 Kłosowska, Anna and Valerie Wilhite, ed. Occitan Poetry, special issue of Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary 4: http://glossator.org/volumes/
• 1998, 2018 paperback Kłosowska, Anna, ed. Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts. University Presses of Florida.

Articles and Book Chapters, most recent:

• “’Barbouillage: Twenty Seventeenth-Century Poems on an Enslaved Black Woman.” In Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide. Ed. Anna Wainwright and Matthieu Chapman. Publisher: Arizona Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series, General Editor Ayanna Thompson.
• "Wojciech of Poznan and the Trans Archive, Poland 1550-1561.” 6777 words. Chapter in the volume, Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern. Editors: Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, Anna Kłosowska. Cornell University Press, 114-129.
• General Introduction, co-authored, Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov, Anna Kłosowska, "The Benefits of Being Trans Historical," in: Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern, Cornell University Press, 1-23.
• “Early Modern Women Writers: A Native, Critical Race, Deaf and Trans Studies Approach,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching. 4000 words. Liza Blake, special issue ed.
• “The Etymology of Slave.” Chapter in the volume. 12,433 words. ed. Vincent Van Gerven Oei, Catherine Karkov, and Anna Kłosowska, Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures, punctum books, 151-214.
• Cowritten introduction. “Disturbance,” with Vincent van Gerven Oei and Catherine Karkov. Introduction to the volume, 5594 words. ed. Vincent Van Gerven Oei, Catherine Karkov, and Anna Kłosowska, Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures, punctum books, 13-26.
• “Muhammad ibn al-Zain’s Basin (Baptistère de Saint Louis).” Literature Compass. 13,346 words. Volume 16, Issue 9-10 Special Issue: Critical Race and the Middle Ages September-October 2019
• “Premodern trans and queer in French manuscripts and early printed texts,” postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies 9.3: 349-366 (special issue: “Queer Manuscripts,” eds. Roberta Magnani and Diane Watt).

Translations

• Ambrose Paré, Works, Preface and Chapter 1-4 of book 25, in vol. 2 of Asa Mittman and Marcus Hensel, ed. Classic Readings on Monster Theory: Demonstrare, Volume 1 and Primary Sources on Monsters: Demonstrare, Volume 2, Arc Humanities Press, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2018.
• Léopold Lambert, Topie Impitoyable: The Corporeal Politics of the Cloth, the Wall, and the Street. Trans. Anna Kłosowska. Brooklyn, NY: Punctum Books, 2016. Podcast 2022: Medieval Academy of America, The Multicultural Middle Ages Series: Medieval Trans Studies: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-multicultural-middle-ages/id1615445418

Work in Progress

• Remarkable Objects: Metal, Silk, Ceramics, Paper, and Ivory in Medieval France.