Emily Steiner Explained

Alma Mater:	Brown University
Thesis Title:	When the problem exceeds the presence : English attitudes towareds Jews in post-expulsion sermonic literature
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/549712018
Thesis Year:	1993

Emily Steiner is the Rose Family Endowed Chair Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is known for her work on medieval literature and middle English literature and culture.

Education and career

Steiner has a Bachelors of Arts from Brown University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University. Steiner started teaching at the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor in the Department of English in 1999, and was promoted to associate professor in 2005. The University of Pennsylvania raised Steiner to the role of full professor in 2015 and the Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of English in 2021, a position that she holds as of 2022.^[1]

Selected publications  

• Book: The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England . 2002-04-01 . Cornell University Press . Steiner . Emily . English . Barrington . Candace. ^[2]
• Book: Steiner, Emily . Documentary culture and the making of medieval English literature . 2003 . Cambridge University Press . 0-521-82484-2 . Cambridge, U.K. . 51914335. ^[3]
• Book: Steiner, Emily . Reading Piers Plowman . 2013 . 978-0-521-86820-4 . Cambridge . 822971454. ^[4]
• Book: Taxonomies of knowledge : information and order in medieval manuscripts . 2015 . Emily . Steiner . Lynn . Ransom . 978-0-8122-4759-6 . Philadelphia . 910239505. ^[5]
• Book: Steiner, Emily . John Trevisa's information age : knowledge and the pursuit of literature, c. 1400 . 2021 . 978-0-19-265082-5 . First . Oxford . 1264709826.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Department of English . 2022-12-13 . www.english.upenn.edu.
2. Review of The Letter of the Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Late Medieval England
   • Liu . Wenxi . 2003 . Review of The Letter of Law: Legal Practice and Literary Production in Medieval England . The Sixteenth Century Journal . 34 . 2 . 510–511 . 10.2307/20061449 . 20061449 . 0361-0160.
3. Reviews for Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature
   • Vaughan . Míċeál F. . 2005 . Review of Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature . The Journal of English and Germanic Philology . 104 . 2 . 294–296 . 27712506 . 0363-6941.
   • Clanchy . M. T. . 2005 . Review of Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature . Law and History Review . 23 . 1 . 206–208 . 10.1017/S0738248000000122 . 30042851 . 144359792 . 0738-2480.
   • Joy . Eileen A. . 2005 . Review of Documentary Culture and the Making of Medieval English Literature . The Sixteenth Century Journal . 36 . 2 . 519–521 . 10.2307/20477400 . 20477400 . 0361-0160.
4. Reviews for Reading "Piers Plowman"  
   • Breen . Katharine . 2015 . Review of Reading "Piers Plowman" . Speculum . 90 . 4 . 1169–1170 . 10.1017/S0038713415001748 . 43884102 . 0038-7134.
   • 2014-11-05 . Reading "Piers Plowman" by Emily Steiner (review) . Studies in the Age of Chaucer . 36 . 1 . 341–344. 10.1353/sac.2014.0007 . 160515176 .
5. Reviews for Taxonomies of Knowledge in the Middle Ages
   • Burrows . Toby . 2017 . Review of Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts. (Lawrence J. Schoenberg Studies in Manuscript Culture 2.) . Speculum . 92 . 2 . 586–587 . 10.1086/690663 . 26340256 . 0038-7134.
   • PINET . SIMONE . RANSOM . LYNN . 2018 . Review of Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts, STEINER EMILY, RANSOMLYNN . Revista Hispánica Moderna . 71 . 1 . 110–109 . 90021786 . 0034-9593.
   • Tortosa . Paul-Arthur . 2017-05-04 . Taxonomies of knowledge: information and order in medieval manuscripts . European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire . en . 24 . 3 . 491–493 . 10.1080/13507486.2017.1283821 . 148820337 . 1350-7486.