Sam Lasman is Humanities Teaching Fellow in Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Starting in Fall 2021, he will be beginning a position as Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Early-Career Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. 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 or is forthcoming in venues including Viator, the Global Medieval Sourcebook, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, and the edited volume Persian Literature as World Literature.