Bio

A portrait of a white person wearing a suit jacket. Danielle Allor is a Visiting Professor of English at Haverford College. She received her Ph.D. with a concentration in medieval literature and culture from Rutgers University in 2021. Her publications on literary representations of nature in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and their intersections with poetics, disability, and sexuality have appeared or are forthcoming in Diacritics, Exemplaria, Medieval Ecocriticisms, Yearbook of Langland Studies, and edited collections. Her first book project, Literary Nature: Trees and the Making of Vernacular Poetry in Late Medieval England, argues that fourteenth- and fifteenth-century authors from Langland to Skelton used the tree figure to consolidate, theorize, and naturalize an English poetic tradition.