The "Life of St. Margaret of Antioch" (11th c.)

Leah Pope Parker s an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her current book project, “Disability and the Afterlife in Old English Literature,” explores how concepts of disability shaped both daily life and the eschatological imaginary in early medieval England. Her research engages with histories of the body and phenomenologies of religion, as well as using digital tools such as multispectral imaging to better understand medieval manuscripts. Her essays have recently appeared in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology and the volume Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World, edited by Richard H. Godden and Asa Simon Mittman. She also endeavors to share medieval disability studies with broader academic and public communities by tweeting as Medieval Disability, @MADisability.