Eileen A. Joy

Eileen A. Joy (a.k.a. Eileen A Fradenburg Joy) is a specialist in Old English literary studies and cultural studies and is the publisher and founding director of Punctum Books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion.[1] She holds a B.A. in English from Virginia Commonwealth University (1984), an M.F.A. in Fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature and Intellectual History from University of Tennessee (2001) with a dissertation Beowulf and the Floating Wreck of History.[2] She is the founder of the BABEL Working Group and is co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.[3]

Research interests

Joy's research interests also span poetry and poetics, intellectual history, ethics, affects, embodiments, queer studies, object/thing studies, the ecological, post-humanisms, and open access scholarly communications.[4]

Academic positions

References

  1. Eileen A. Joy at Punctum Books
  2. Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy at Humanities Commons
  3. Eileen Joy, Our Fearless Open Access Leader at UCSB by Skyler DePaoli, Mar 23, 2019
  4. Pressing for Revolution Lab, by Jim Logan at The Current


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