Degrees

2019, BA English, Samford University

Bio

Emily is a PhD candidate focusing on late-medieval Middle English literature. She is especially interested in questions of authority, counter-authority, legality, and outlawry in late fourteenth and early fifteenth century political poetry and outlaw tales, including Piers Plowman, texts in the Piers Plowman tradition, and Robin Hood traditions.

Publications:

• “Yeoman, Outlaw, Demon: Reading The Friar’s Tale as an Outlaw Tale”, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, forthcoming.

Teaching Awards

• 2022 Doris Betts Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition, Department of English, UNC

Awards

• 2024 Leyerle-CARA Prize, Medieval Academy of America
• 2023 Derek Pearsall Research and Travel Grant, International Piers Plowman Society
• 2023 Schallek Award, Medieval Academy of America and the Richard III Society
• 2021 ARPA Graduate Degree Completion Grant, The Graduate School, UNC
• 2020 Breen Award for Outstanding Work in Medieval Studies, Department of English, UNC

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Degrees

2014, BA English, Harvard University

2015, postgraduate study, History of Design, Royal College of Art/ Victoria & Albert Museum

Bio

Lanier’s research interests include early modern drama, material culture studies, and the history of the book. Her dissertation examines the epistemological value of the documentary medium in Elizabethan and Jacobean England by asking how, when, and why early moderns decided to trust the documents they encountered. Reading references to documents in period literature through the lens of contemporary material texts, she argues that the vocabulary of documents offered playwrights and poets an invaluable framework with which to explore social, political, and spiritual uncertainties.

Teaching Awards

• James R. Gaskin Award for Excellence in Teaching Composition, 2017

Awards

• Graduate Intern Fellowship, Ackland Art Museum, 2022-23
• Grant-in-aid, “Teaching Intermediate Paleography,” The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2022
• Jerry Leath Mills Grant, Studies in Philology, 2022
• William T. Buice III Scholarship, Rare Book School, 2022
• Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant, “Teaching the Early Modern Book: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Thinking,” The Newberry Library, 2022
• Grant-in-aid, “Research and Writing the Early Modern Dissertation,” The Folger Shakespeare Library, 2021-22
• Donald Gilman Research Travel Grant, The Department of English and Comparative Literature, 2021
• Royster Society Fellowship, The Graduate School, 2016-21