Gillian Rudd

Gillian (Jill) Rudd works on late medieval English Literature, Women's Writing of the C19th and C20th and Children's Literature, and is interested in taking a variety of theoretical and critical approaches to literary texts. She is currently exploring using ‘green’ literary criticism, ecocriticism as a way of re-reading medieval texts, as in her book Greenery: Ecocritical approaches to late medieval English literature (Manchester University Press, 2007) and in various articles.She also has a longstanding interest in feminist reading and debating the role of women in literature and has written several pieces on the American writer and reformer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.