Elan Justice Pavlinich is a Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College where he teaches medieval and early modern literatures and medievalisms. His publications include cognitive approaches to the Old English Boethius and feminist approaches to Disney’s medievalisms. 

E.J. earned his doctorate in 2019 from the University of South Florida where he was a Presidential Fellow. In his dissertation, Queer Authority in Old and Middle English Literature, which he defended with distinction,  he analyzes the mechanisms by which cultural authority is constructed in the Old English Boethius, Dream of the Rood, Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women, and The Book of Margery Kempe. He argues that these early English texts employ nonnormative genders, sexualities, and spaciotemporalities to both encode England’s marginalized orientations to dominant cultural authorities and to disrupt normative networks of power. 

Email: elanjustice@gmail.com