Overview
Hunter is a third year PhD student in the department of literatures in English interested in affective and posthuman approaches to medieval literature from the 8th through 15th centuries in England and France. Broadly studying "affective ecosystems," he looks at how literature displays medieval ideas of the mind, body, and soul, and how these discrete pieces interact to form a complicated internal environment open to change and the influences of its environment. In particular, he studies how physical diseases and emotions overlap, as in the case of medieval lovesickness and griefsickness. This interest expands to the external environment and the representation of animals and natural spaces in medieval literature and how humans and the non-human co-constitute and shape one another.
Research Focus
- Medieval Literature
- Animal Studies
- Affect Theory
- Posthumanism
- Poetry and Music