It is Beyond Borders' great pleasure to welcome our first guest blogger, Dr. Jo Koster. Dr. Koster is a Professor of English and
Coordinator of the Medieval Studies Minor at Winthrop University in South
Carolina, where she teaches courses in medieval literature, medieval studies,
and critical thinking. She received her
B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.A. and Ph.D in English from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill; her doctoral research (conducted mostly in Oxford) on
medieval prayer manuscripts was funded by the Tulsa Center for Women’s Studies.
For the last three decades her research has focused on women’s literate
practices in the Middle Ages and on manuscripts owned, commissioned, and
created by women in the Middle Ages; she has published recently on subjects as
varied as Margery Kempe, modern detective novels featuring medieval
protagonists, and the utility of using ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic’s videos as a lens
for helping contemporary students understand the generic complexities of The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tales.
In her own defense, she protests that she is a trained paleographer and not an
art historian, though this does not stop her from dabbling in art history
(especially involving the book arts) when she’s allowed to.
Look for Dr. Koster's post this coming Monday, January 14th!
~Beyond Borders
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