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Twice Marginal and Twice Invisible: On Being the Lone Medievalist Twice in One State

  • Michelle M. Sauer (author)
Chapter of: The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist(pp. 259–265)

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TitleTwice Marginal and Twice Invisible
SubtitleOn Being the Lone Medievalist Twice in One State
ContributorMichelle M. Sauer (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0205.1.23
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-ballad-of-the-lone-medievalist/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightSauer, Michelle M.
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2018-08-23
Long abstractIn the classic Jacqueline Murray article, “Twice Marginal and Twice Invisible: Lesbians in the Middle Ages,”1 she argues that lesbians are challenging to reclaim in history by virtue of being doubly excluded. I’m not exactly comparing myself to a medi-eval lesbian, although a good deal of my scholarship has focused on female same-sex desire in the Middle Ages; however, there have been several instances of intertwined marginalization like this in my career. I was, for example, the only medieval PhD student at my institution. That brought both good and bad, since I got plum teaching assignments (no composition), but lost out on a student community. As a woman of color, I am also sometimes on the outskirts of medieval studies (although that is changing in today’s academic world), but have also been called a “race traitor” by other South Asians since I study “the whitest period in history” (a view also being challenged in today’s academic world). So I guess one could say that I pretty much began my career as a Lone Medievalist in my PhD program, and have continued as such to this very day.
Page rangepp. 259–265
Print length7 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Michelle M. Sauer

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