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Areas of Expertise

British literature; medieval literature; translation studies; history of the English languge; history of the material text

Degrees

PhD, University of Pennsylvania, M. Phil., University of Cambridge

Professional Publications & Contributions

• Ed. and trans., The Book of the Love-smitten Heart/Le livre du cuer d’amours espris, with co-author Dr. Kathryn Karczewska (Routledge, 2001)
• Contributions to collected volumes including The Cambridge Companion to Allegory, with co-author Rita Copeland (Cambridge UP, 2010), The Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (Brill, 2009), Poetry, Knowledge and Community in Late Medieval France (Boydell & Brewer, 2008), The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years (Yale UP, 2008), and Contexts and Continuities (Glasgow UP, 2002)
• Articles and book reviews in peer-reviewed journals including Chaucer Review (2010), Literature Compass (2009), Glossator (2009), Speculum (review, 2009), Studies in the Age of Chaucer (review, 2008), Yearbook of Langland Studies (review, 2007)

Additional Information

TEACHING INTERESTS

British literature, medieval literature, translation studies, history of the English language, history of the material text

RESEARCH SUPPORT & WORK-IN-PROGRESS

Dr. Kamath’s research has been supported by funding sources including the British Academy, the Centre d’Études Médiévales Anglaises, and the Huntington Library. Her current projects include the completion of a monograph on the literary history of first-person protagonist allegory in late medieval French and English for Boydell & Brewer’s Gallica series, contribution to the forthcoming Regeneration: A Literary History of Europe, 1348-1418 (2012?; Oxford UP), and the organization, with Dr. Nievergelt, of an international colloquium on the allegories of Guillaume de Digulleville (21-23 July 2011).