Leila Kate Norako (she/they)

Associate Professor
A photo of Leila Norako (a white woman with blue eyes and long brown hair, smiling)

Contact Information

PDL A-309
Office Hours
By appointment (please email)

Biography

Ph.D., English, University of Rochester, 2012
M.A., English, University of Rochester, 2009
B.A., English, The College of William and Mary, 2004
B.A., Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The College of William and Mary, 2004

Leila K. Norako specializes in late medieval literature and culture, with particular interests in Middle English romance, crusades literature, premodern critical race theory, the global Middle Ages, premodern queer studies, and contemporary fantasy. Her work has been published in The Chaucer Review, Literature Compass, and postmedieval, and her book, Monstrous Fantasies: England's Crusading Imaginary and the Romance of Recovery was published by Cornell UP in 2024. She has served as one of In the Middle's contributing bloggers, and continues to serve as the creator and general editor of The Crusades Project. Other projects include a critical edition of Magnussona saga (forthcoming from TEAMS/METS upon completion), and The Richard Coer de Lyon Multitext, a digital project that will provide scholars with semi-diplomatic editions of all extant versions of the romance and that will provide scholars and students with an array of research and teaching-oriented resources. She is also a poet, and her first chapbook, Nautilus, was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2019.  

Awards
Digital Humanities Summer Fellow, 2019

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