Sam Lasman is currently Teaching Assistant Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Marco Institute at the University of Tenneessee, Knoxville. Previously, he was Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Early-Career Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Humanities Teaching Fellow in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. His work focuses on the monstrous, parahuman, and supernatural in global medieval literature, particularly in narrative literature from the Iranian world and Northwestern Europe. His writing has appeared in venues including Viator, the Global Medieval Sourcebook, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, and the edited volume Persian Literature as World Literature.