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Antje Elisa Chan

Antje Elisa Chan
Contact Information
Email address: 
antje.chan [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Arts 130
McCall MacBain Arts Building
853 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, QC H3A 0G5
Canada

Position: 
Assistant Professor (Research)
Stream: 
Literature
Specialization by geographical area: 
Great Britain
Europe
Specialization by time period: 
Medieval & Middle English
Area(s): 
Archives & Bibliography
Book History
Fiction
Poetry & Poetics
Areas of interest: 

Late medieval English literature and culture (particularly 15th century); manuscript studies; Middle English lyrics; Middle English drama; interplay between scholastic theology and vernacular writing; catechetic and pastoral literature in the late Middle Ages; mysticism; Anglo-Norman religious literature

Biography: 

Antje Elisa Chan is a scholar of medieval English literature specializing in the manuscript culture of lay people in fifteenth-century England. She is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Public Worship in Fifteenth-Century England: Middle English Pastoralia as Textual Witnesses, which categorizes and analyzes Middle English pastoral and catechetic texts on the Mass, creeds, prayers, virtues and vices. She is particularly interested in how this body of writing encouraged communal responsibility towards one’s neighbour and fostered societal health. Antje is currently editing a special issue of the Medieval Feminist Forum with proceedings of the “New Visions of Julian of Norwich” conference, which she co-organized at Somerville College in Oxford in 2022. She is also the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures.

Degree(s): 

D.Phil (University of Oxford, UK)
M.A. (Regent College, Canada)
B.A., M.A. (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Selected publications: 

Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Kissing Matter: John Lydgate’s Lyric On Kissing at Verbum caro factum est and the Democratization of Contemplation.” Religions 15:1 (2024): 1-20.
  • “The Virtues of the Mass: Towards a Taxonomy of a Late Middle English Genre of Liturgical Significance.” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 49:1 (2023): 77-115.

Reviews and Public Scholarship

  • “Review of The Mystical Presence of Christ: The Exceptional and the Ordinary in Late Medieval Religion by Richard Kieckhefer.” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 50:2 (2024): 241-245.
  • “Review of Chaucer’s Prayers: Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion by Megan E. Murton.” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 48:1(2022): 99-102.
Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
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