About
My research focuses on the same set of issues across two fields. I work on French and comparative medieval literature and manuscripts in terms of power relations, transgression, sex, violence, the body, intersectionality, and marginalized populations. These research interests, combined with my knowledge of technology, also relate to my work on ethical, equitable, accessible technology in human-computer interaction (HCI). My interests also include Sanskrit, Hindi, and Tamil languages and cultures. In addition, I am secretary of the
International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch.
Education
PhD in French studies from Penn Publications
humanities: “Failed Sadism and Masochistic Martyrdom in Christine de Pizan’s
Livre de la cité des dames” in
Painful Pleasures, ed. Christopher Vaccaro (Manchester University Press, 2022), 93-128.
human-computer interaction: (accepted) Brittany Lewis, Tina-Marie Ranalli, Alexandra Gourley, Piriyankan Kirupaharan, Krishna Venkatasubramanian, “I… caught a person casing my house… and scared him off:” The Use of Security-Focused Smart Home Devices by People with Disabilities,”
The 2023 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23), Hamburg, Germany, April 2023.
Projects
humanities: With Linda Burke, an English translation and critical edition of Christine de Pizan’s
Cent balades. Our edition updates the Middle French text and includes all manuscript variants. The existing edition from 1886 contains just a small percentage of the variants and bases its transcription on a presumed urtext. My
recent talk discusses a new finding on the
Cent balades from this book project.
A critical edition of
Oedipi et Sphingis Dialogus. My
article on this work is already available.
human-computer interaction: I work with a
team that is exploring the development of applications to help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to recognize, report, and respond to abuse.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
May 2023, “Medieval Scholarship and Disability: Accessibility for Individuals with a Variety of Conditions Post-COVID” in Medieval Disability, Modern Ableism (A Roundtable), The 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, US.
May 2023, “New Insights into the Manuscripts of Christine de Pizan’s Cent balades” in The Future of Manuscript Studies: Honoring the Legacy of Angus J. Kennedy and Liliane Dulac, The 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, US. Memberships
Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
International Christine de Pizan Society, North American Branch
Medieval Academy of America
Modern Language Association
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship
