Bridget Whearty
bwhearty@binghamton.eduBiography
Bridget Whearty (she/her) works at the intersection of literary, medieval, manuscript, and information studies. She is the author of Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor (Stanford University Press, 2022). Whearty is also the creator of the Caswell Test (#CaswellTest), which draws on the work of Michelle Caswell to challenge humanities scholars writing about 鈥渢he archive鈥 to engage more rigorously and accurately with the work of real archivists and librarians. She is co-PI, with Masha Raskolnikov, of the nascent digital project and OER 鈥淎lways Here: a Queer+Trans Global Medieval Sourcebook.鈥
Education
- PhD, Stanford University
- BA, University of Montana
Research Interests
- Queer+trans medieval literature and material culture
- Medieval manuscripts, digital humanities, media history, and digitization
- 14th- and 15th-century English literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and John Lydgate
- Information literacy and Special Collections pedagogy
Teaching Interests
- Medieval literature and culture
- Manuscript studies and the history of the book
- LGBTQ+ literature