Dr. Margaret Pappano

Biography

Margaret Aziza Pappano is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Queen's University. She received her PhD from Columbia University and her MA from Sussex University. Her research focuses on English, French, and Latin texts from the late Middle Ages, with particular interests in civic religious culture, devotional texts in England, and literary interactions in the Mediterranean. She has co-authored the book 'Civic Cycles: Artisan Drama Identity in Premodern England,' which won the annual David Bevington award for monographs on early drama, and co-edited a volume on premodern artisan culture. Pappano teaches a range of seminar courses, including 'Medieval Literatures and Cultures' and 'Premodern Gender and Sexuality,' addressing themes across Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions. She is actively interested in Animal Studies, having been a vegetarian since the age of 12, and is currently working on several forthcoming articles related to Muslim identities and practices in contemporary contexts. Pappano is dedicated to supervising graduate research in medieval studies and contemporary Muslim literatures.

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