Degrees
2022, BA English, Meredith College
Bio
Krista Telford is a second-year PhD student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research examines forms of prayer in medieval and early modern literature as well as the impact of form on medieval depictions of the afterlife. She aims to take an interdisciplinary approach in her research, considering the performative aspect of many poems and prayers and drawing on musicological research. Krista’s recent and ongoing work includes a project exploring resistance to transcendence in the ending of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, which examines Chaucer’s reading of Boethius, and a paper exploring the polyphonic and dialogic nature of Francesco Suriano’s underexamined 15th century treatise on the Holy Land, Il trattato di Terra Santa e dell’Oriente.
Awards
- Fall 2022-Present Graduate Teaching Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill, Department of English and Comparative Literature
- 2024 Breen Award for Outstanding Work in Medieval Studies, UNC Chapel Hill, Department of English & Comparative Literature
- 2024 Donald R. Howard Travel Scholarship, The New Chaucer Society
- 2024 LSP Teaching Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill Latina/o Studies Program
- 2023 Travel Grant, UNC Chapel Hill, Department of English & Comparative Literature
- 2023 Ruth Rose Richardson Award for outstanding performance in the first year of graduate
study, UNC Chapel Hill, Department of English & Comparative Literature