- Assistant Professor, English Literature, University of Guelph
Aylin Malcolm is a scholar of literature, environment, and gender in late medieval and early modern England. Their work asks what imaginative writing can contribute to the history of science, from the twelfth century to the present moment of ecological crisis.
They are writing a book on how experiments with animals and plants shaped medieval views of gender and humanity. They have also published on pre-Copernican astronomy, historical recipe collections, digital editing, and the material forms of books before 1700.
Experience
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2023–presentAssistant Professor, English Literature, University of Guelph
Education
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2023University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in English
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2016The Ohio State University, M.A. in English
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2014McGill University, B.A.&Sc. in Environment
Publications
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2025Out of the Woods: The Nature of Gender in Le Roman de Silence, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
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2024Birds, Blood, and Nonbinary Bodies in Marie de France’s Yonec, Medieval Ecocriticisms
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2024Animals, The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer
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2022What the Mole Knows: Experience, Exempla, and Interspecies Dialogue in Albert the Great’s De animalibus, New Medieval Literatures
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- Location: Toronto, Canada
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