Professor

Rentschler Hall 224 
513-785-3004
pearmatv@MiamiOH.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in English, Loyola University
• MA, Purdue University

Teaching Interests

• First-Year Composition
• Medieval Literature
• Women’s Literature
• Literature and Disability

Research Interests

• Medieval literature and culture
• Disability Studies
• Feminist Theory

Selected Publications

Book

Women and Disability in Medieval Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

Essay Collection

The Treatment of Disabled Persons in Medieval Europe: Examining Disability in the Historical, Legal, Literary, Medical, and Religious Discourses of the Middle Ages. Coeditor and Contributor with Wendy Turner (Edwin Mellen Press, 2011).

Essays

• “Disability, Liminality, and Blood in Thomas Malory’s ‘Quest for the Sangkreal,’” forthcoming in Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
• “Heterosyncrasy as a Way of Life: Disability and the Heterosyncratic Community in Amis and Amiloun,” New Medieval Literatures 15 (2015).
• “Blindness, Confession, and Re-membering in Gower’s Confessio,” Accessus: A Journal of Pre-Modern Literature and New Media1.1 (2013).
• “Refiguring Disability: Deviance, Blinding, and the Supernatural in Thomas Chestre’s Sir Launfal,” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability 3.2 (2009).
• “Laying Siege to Female Power: Theseus the ‘Conqueror’ and Hippolita the ‘Asseged’ in ‘The Knight’s Tale,’” Essays in Medieval Studies 22 (2007).

Grants and Awards

• Humanities Center Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship (2015)
• Miami University Hamilton Research Fund (2016)
• Committee on Faculty Research Summer Research Appointment (2016)

Work in Progress

Tory Vandeventer Pearman is currently at work on a book-length study of disability and knighthood in Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur.