Masha Raskolnikov
Associate Professor
Graduate Faculty Member
- Degrees
- University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. - University of California, Berkeley
M.A. - Wesleyan University
B.A.
Bio
After receiving her BA from the interdisciplinary College of Letters at Wesleyan University, Masha Raskolnikov went on to earn her MA and Phd at UC Berkeley’s Department of Rhetoric; at the time she arrived at Cornell, she had never actually been, officially, a member of an English Department, but she finds herself quite comfortable in this one. She is primarily interested in critical theory as a project of unmaking “common sense,” and in working with medieval literature as a means of doing so; she is also interested in feminist, lesbian, gay and transgender/transsexual studies, and is currently Director of the LGBT Studies Program at Cornell University.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Middle English Literature
- Allegory
- Medieval Literary Theory and Rhetoric
- Contemporary Critical Theory
- Feminist and Queer Studies
Current Projects
- Body Against Soul: Gender and Sowlehele in Middle English Allegory, Ohio State University Press, 2009. (Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture, Series edited by Ethan Knapp)