Tory Vandeventer Pearman

Education

• Ph.D., Loyola University, 2009
• M.A., Purdue University

Teaching Interests

• First-Year Composition
• Medieval Literature
• Women’s Literature
• Literature and Disability

Research Interests

• Medieval Literature and Culture
• Disability Studies
• Feminist Theory

Selected Publications

Books

• Disability and Knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur (Routledge, 2019).
• Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Essay Collections

• A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages, coeditor with Joshua Eyler and Jonathan Hsy (Bloomsbury, 2020).
• The Treatment of Disabled Persons in Medieval Europe: Examining Disability in the Historical, Legal, Literary, Medical, and Religious Discourses of the Middle Ages. Coeditor and Contributor with Wendy Turner (Edwin Mellen Press, 2011).

Essays

• "(Dis)abling Knighthood: Using Disability Theory to Teach Malory’s Morte Darthur," in Approaches to Teaching Arthurian Literature, edited by Dorsey Armstrong (MLA, forthcoming).
• "The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale," in The Medieval Disability Studies Sourcebook, edited by Cameron Hunt McNabb (punctum, 2020).
• "(De)Coupling Monstrosity and Disability," Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World, edited by Asa Mittman and Richard Godden (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
• "Disability, Liminality, and Blood in Thomas Malory’s ‘Quest for the Sangkreal,’" Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies 10.3 (2016): 271-86.
• "Heterosyncrasy as a Way of Life: Disability and the Heterosyncratic Community in Amis and Amiloun," New Medieval Literatures 15 (2015).
• "Blindness, Confession, and Re-membering in Gower’s Confessio," Accessus: A Journal of Pre-Modern Literature and New Media 1.1 (2013).
• "Refiguring Disability: Deviance, Blinding, and the Supernatural in Thomas Chestre’s Sir Launfal," Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability 3.2 (2009).
• "Laying Siege to Female Power: Theseus the ‘Conqueror’ and Hippolita the ‘Asseged’ in ‘The Knight’s Tale,’" Essays in Medieval Studies 22 (2007).

Grants and Awards

• Lone Medievalist Prize for Scholarship (2019)
• Miami University Hamilton Research Fund (2016)
• Committee on Faculty Research Summer Research Appointment (2016)
• Humanities Center Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship (2015)