In conversation with Benjamin A. Saltzman and Kashaf Qureshi
April 30, 1:00-2:00 CST
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Dr. Pareles will be discussing their recent articles, “Already/Never: Jewish-Porcine Conversion in the Middle English Children of the Oven Miracle,” Philological Quarterly 98, no. 3 (2019): 221-42, and “Jewish heterosexuality, queer celibacy? Ælfric translates the Old Testament priesthood,” postmedieval 8 (2017): 292–306. We will also be discussing their book in progress, The Strain of Purity: Jewish Law in Old English Vernacular Translation.
Dr. Pareles researches the mutual construction of species, sexual, and ethnic difference in medieval English religious literature. Dr. Pareles is at work on two book projects. The first, The Strain of Purity: Jewish Law in Old English Vernacular Translation, traces how the cultural translation of Jewish law structured pre-Conquest identity projects, bolstering human and Christian supremacy in early English culture. The second, tentatively titled Time’s Others: Infant, Animal, and Jewish Temporalities in Medieval Christianity, explores the abjected, arrested, and pregnant temporalities that make medieval Christian futures possible. Dr. Pareles has held postdoctoral fellowships at New York University and Northwestern University. Dr. Pareles’s teaching interests include animal studies, Old and Middle English literature, translation, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Benjamin A. Saltzman is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago.
Kashaf Qureshi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Chicago.