Casey Ireland
Education
M.A., English, University of Virginia, 2013
B.A., History and English Literature, University of Virginia, 2012
Dissertation:
“Remains of the Hunt in Middle English Literature”
Publications:
Charlottesville Food: A History of Eating Local in Jefferson's City. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2014.
Research Interests:
Early to late medieval English literature, ecocriticism, food studies.
Selected Fellowships and Awards:
Bradley Foundation, Bradley Fellowship, 2017-2018, 2018-2019.
The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, Cherwell Studentship, 2017.
University of Virginia, Summer Fellowship, 2016.
MAA/ CARA, Summer Scholarship, 2015.
Teaching Experience:
ENWR 1519: Writing for Life, Spring 2018
ENWR 1510: Rhetoric for the 21st Century, Fall 2017
ENLT 2511: Literature and the Nonhuman, Spring 2017
ENGL 3810: History of Literatures in English I, Fall 2016
ENWR 1510: Modern Fairytales, Fall 2015 and Spring 2016
Conference Papers:
“Gawain’s Social Piety and Green Garbage.” International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 11-14 May 2017.
“‘Noght wol I knowe compaignye of man’: Narrating Femininity in The Knight's Tale.” New Chaucer Society Conference, London, UK, 14 July 2016.
“Discors Concordia: Swamps as Borderlands in Dante’s Inferno.” Medieval Academy of America Meeting, Boston, MA, 26 February 2016.
“Tasting Blood: The Kill and the Feast in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, 15 May 2015.
