Anna Wilson

Anna Wilson is Associate 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 uses of medieval texts, aesthetics, symbols, and ideas in the modern world.

Medieval Fans: Reading, Affect, and Queer Community, will be published on 2nd March, 2027, with University of Pennsylvania Press.

Anna’s writing has appeared in numerous academic journals, and in Aeon and the Harvard Gazette. She is currently working on her second book, on the figure of the child in medieval literature.

Note: Anna is on research leave in 2026-2027.