Anna Wilson

Anna Wilson is Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University. She holds a BA in Classics from Cambridge University, and a MA and PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto, Canada. She was born in London, UK, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts .

Anna researches and teaches at the intersection of medieval studies and popular culture. Her interests include the history of reading, fanfiction and fan studies, race, gender, sexuality, late medieval Latin and Middle English literature, and the medieval child, and the uses of medieval texts, art and ideas in the modern world. Her first book, Medieval Fans: Reading, Affect, and Queer Community, is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press. She is currently working on articles on modern adaptations of The Canterbury Tales, and on representations of creative labor in “Coffee Shop AU” fanfiction. Her next book is on the child in medieval literature.

Her writing has appeared in Aeon and the Harvard Gazette. She also writes for the American Repertory Theater.