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).

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