CONTACT INFORMATION:
Assistant Professor of English
Department of English
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801 USA
 

Office Telephone:	(217) 244 5655
Office Fax:	(217) 333 4321
Active email:	trilling@uiuc.edu
Relevant Webpage:	https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/trilling/www/ http://www.uiuc.edu

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Old and Middle English literature; theories of historiography and nationalism; linguistics and philology; feminist and psychoanalytic theory.

Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:

"Beyond Abjection:  The Problem with Grendel's Mother Again,"  Parergon 24.1 (2007), 1-20.

"Sovereignty and Social Order: Archbishop Wulfstan and the Institutes of Polity," in The Bishop Reformed:  Studies in Episcopal Power and Culture in the Central Middle Ages, edited by John S. Ott and Anna Trumbore Jones (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 58-85.

WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
I'm currently working on a project on translations of historical narrative in Anglo-Norman England, focusing on the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, and Layamon.

History of the Medieval Book:

Medieval Chronicle Studies:
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle forms the centerpiece of my book manuscript, The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Anglo-Saxon Verse.

Do you have any other ideas for themes that might be of broad academic interest to other medievalists?

The body and materiality in the Middle Ages

Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
 

STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions.

MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Introduction to Old English
Beowulf
Building the Nation: History, Literature, and State Formation in Medieval England

MEDIEVAL COURSES WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED: