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Sierra Lomuto

Sierra Lomuto will join Macalester College in Fall 2018 as a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow and then as Assistant Professor of English. She is currently finishing her doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania on race and medieval literature. As a founding member of Medievalists of Color (http://medievalistsofcolor.com/), she advocates for racial inclusion in Medieval Studies. icon

Chaucer and Humanitarian Activism

By Sierra Lomuto

Refugee Tales, a recent adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, is more than a retelling of one of our “great books” of English literature ...

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