I am a Ph.D. candidate and teaching fellow in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Megan Maldonado is a Ph.D. candidate and Teaching Fellow at Columbia University in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.

Her dissertation, tentatively titled, "Devotional Poetics in Middle English Romance," asks whether popular stories about knights and monsters can look, or even act, like religious literature. Consequently, Megan asks whether "secular" romances have a lot more to say about mundane theology than scholars have previously suggested.

An enthusiastic interdisciplinarian, Megan has earned a Ph.D. certificate in Medieval and Renaissance Studies in order to better understand (and complicate) the nebulous cultural divides between England and the Continent, the Continent and the Islamicate world, and the late medieval and early modern periods. She maintains her dissertation interest in manuscripts, miracles, and magical things by asking how abstract concepts get embodied and materialized across these aforementioned divides.

When she isn't researching and writing, Megan teaches composition and literature at Columbia. From a family of public school educators, Megan is passionate about growing both as a researcher and an instructor.