Juliana Chapman

Juliana Chapman studies medieval and early modern literature and culture with a particular focus on British literature, and the exchange between British and continental (especially French and Italian) literature and the arts, including music. More broadly, she considers how early period literary works, forms, and aesthetics circulated in their contemporary cultures and inform modern world literature and art, including music and film. After earning her BA in Music (BYU), MA in Comparative Studies (BYU), and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Penn State University), she worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and then Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Penn State for four years before joining the Faculty at BYU in 2018. She continues to bring her interdisciplinary educational background into her research and teaching. Her publications include an article on musical structure in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," and current projects on Dante's "Commedia" and early opera, Chaucer's "Boece," and Spenser's "Faerie Queene."