Sarah Jane Friedman
Email: friedman23@wisc.edu
Year Admitted: 2017
Bio
Sarah Friedman studies representations of masculinity in late medieval medical, literary, and historical texts. Her work has appeared in Essays in Medieval Studies, Cambridge University’s Special Collections blog, and is forthcoming in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures. She has received numerous grants for her research, including the Schallek Award from The Medieval Academy of America.
Interests
Medieval literature, Gender and sexuality, History of medicine
Degree and Institution
BA, Barnard College, Columbia University
Selected Publications
Friedman, Sarah. “Contagion, Sexual Violence, and Communal Healing in Chaucer’s The Physician’s Tale and Gower’s Confessio Amantis.” Essays in Medieval Studies 37 (2022): 65-79. https://doi.org/10.1353/ems.2022.a903145.
Friedman, Sarah. “‘For no cause but for the healing and help of them’: Medieval Gynaecology as a Female Discipline.” Cambridge University Special Collections Blog. March 13 2022. https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=24362