Research Interests
Old and Middle English literature; theories of historiography and nationalism; linguistics and philology; new materialisms and body studies
Education
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame; M.A., University of Notre Dame; B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Courses Taught
Undergraduate courses include Old English language and literature, Chaucer, medieval women writers, historiography, modern medievalisms and film, and critical theory. Recent graduate seminars have focused on history, literature, and state formation in early medieval England; on Beowulf, the poem and its critical contexts; on forms of alterity in the Middle Ages; and on the poems of the Junius Manuscript.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, English
Associate Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
Associate Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Highlighted Publications
Trilling, R. R. (2009). The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Old English Verse. (Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series). University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442697935
Stodnick, J., & Trilling, R. R. (Eds.) (2012). A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies. Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118328828
Trilling, R. R., Norris, R., & Stephenson, R. (Eds.) (2020). A Feminist Renaissance in Early Medieval English Studies. English Studies, 101(1).
Recent Publications
Norris, R., Stephenson, R., & Trilling, R. (2023). Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies. (Knowledge Communities). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463721462
Stephenson, R., Fay, J., & Trilling, R. R. (Eds.) (2022). Textual Identities in Early Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. (Anglo-Saxon Studies; Vol. 42). D.S. Brewer. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv24tr798
Trilling, R. R. (2022). Ordering Chaos in Old English Wisdom Poetry. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 52(1), 69-92. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-9478482
Norris, R., Trilling, R. R., & Stephenson, R. (2020). Introduction: A Feminist Renaissance in Early Medieval English Studies. English Studies, 101(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2020.1709761
Trilling, R. R., Norris, R., & Stephenson, R. (Eds.) (2020). A Feminist Renaissance in Early Medieval English Studies. English Studies, 101(1).