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Seeta Chaganti

Seeta Chaganti is a professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). icon

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B-Sides: Chaucer’s “The House of Fame”

By Seeta Chaganti

For years, and with particular intensity since the 2015 Dylann Roof shooting and 2016 election, we have debated the fate of not only Confederate monuments but ...

B-Sides: “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”

By Seeta Chaganti

If you last read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight long ago, you might mainly remember the striking and supernatural image of a huge green warrior riding ...

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