Jonathan Hsy (pronounced “shoo”) is a comparative literary historian who teaches at The George Washington University (Washington, DC, USA), and his work explores the numerous intersections of language, translation, cultural analysis, and media studies. He is a co-founder of Global Chaucers (along with Candace Barrington), and he is also a contributor to The Chaucer Encyclopedia, A New Companion to Chaucer, and the Open Access Companion to The Canterbury Tales. He is the author of Antiracist Medievalisms: From “Yellow Peril” to Black Lives Matter (2021), Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature (2013) and co-editor of A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages (2020).
Candace Barrington teaches at Central Connecticut State University and pursues two research interests.Her studies of global medievalism began with Chaucer’s popular reception in American Chaucers (2007) and has continued with numerous articles. With Jonathan Hsy, she directs Global Chaucers. Together they co-edited an issue of the Global Circulation Project for Literature Compass, “Chaucer’s Global Compaignye” (2018). With Louise D’Arcens, she co-edited Digital Philology’s “Global Middle Ages, Global Medievalism” (2019). She’s currently writing two monographs: Faithless Love: Re-reading Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales through Global Languages and Chaucer and Translation: The Global Roots and Branches of English Literature. She belongs to the editorial collective that published the Open Access Companion to The Canterbury Tales (2018), is a founding co-editor of New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession, and co-edits with Mariah Min the Global Antiquity to Late Medieval section of Literature Compass. In addition to these areas, she also studies legal and literary discourse in medieval England, resulting in several articles and co-edited volumes, including the Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Law and Literature (2019) with Sebastian Sobecki, and Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medievalism (2002) with Emily Steiner.
Shannon Prevost
is the current intern for Global Chaucers. She is a senior at Central Connecticut State University and is majoring in English and minoring in Creative Writing. She will graduate in the spring of 2023 and will pursue her Masters degree in Elementary Education.
Updated February 21, 2022.