The "Book of Margery Kempe" (ca. 1450–1500)

M.W. Bychowski is the Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, holding a position as full-time faculty in English, and teaching seminars on gender, disability, feminism, racism, and queer Christianity. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. A few of her recent articles include “The Isle of Hermaphrodites: Disorienting the Place of Intersex in the Middle Ages” (postmedieval 2018), “Reconstructing the Pardoner: Transgender Skin Operations in Fragment VI” (Writing on Skin in the Age of Chaucer, 2018), and “Mad for Margery: Disability and the Imago Dei in the Book of Margery Kempe” (The Ashgate Research Companion to Medieval Disability Studies, Routledge, forthcoming). She remains an ardent advocate for the Digital Humanities and public scholarship, maintaining an online center for the study of transgender and disability, medieval and post-medieval, www.ThingsTransform.com. Additionally, she serves on the executive board of the Mental Health Network, an advising think-tank for the national UCC church, as well as consults for local businesses, schools, and political groups on diversity and social justice. This work led her to serve at “the White House Forum on LGBTQ and Disability Issues” in 2016.