Audrey Walton
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
working as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. working as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Research Interest
Her current book project, New Wine in Old Skins: Vernacular Typology in Medieval English Poetry, 590-1390, examines the significance of sacred poetry in English to the political and social identity of the English church, from England’s conversion at the end of the sixth century to the flourishing of England’s vernacular theology in the fourteenth. This book participates in ongoing scholarly conversations about sacred language, vernacularity, and world religions. A second project explores the deep and extensive structural similarities in two important early English anthologies—one in Latin, the other in Old English—in order to shed new light on England’s bilingual literary culture. Both projects explore the potential networks, points of contact, and paths of information that enable ideas to cross linguistic divides.
