Antje Chan

Antje Elisa Chan is jointly appointed between McGill’s School of Religious Studies and the Department of English. She holds the Robert Stevenson Chair in Religion and Literature. Her work lies at the intersection of spiritual theology and medieval devotional literature. Her research specializes in the religious culture of lay people in fifteenth-century England. She is working on a monograph, with the tentative title Public Worship in Fifteenth-Century England: Middle English Pastoralia as Textual Witnesses, which explores late medieval liturgical culture through the lens of vernacular sources. She currently holds an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which explores pastoral treatises such as ‘De visitatio infirmorum’ and Ars moriendi texts that promote shared social responsibility towards caring for the sick and the dying. Antje Chan teaches courses ranging from women’s visionary writings, medieval pastoral care, and biblical drama to the Bible and Western culture and English literature and the Bible. She is the Book Review Editor for the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures and welcomes expressions of interest in reviewing, or having reviewed, books on any aspects of medieval religious cultures.

Antje welcomes expressions of interest from prospective M.A. and Ph.D. students wishing to pursue research on aspects of religious textual culture in the Middle Ages, as well as medieval Christianity more broadly.