Research Expertise and Interest

Old English, poetry

Research Description

Shu-han Luo is a scholar of medieval English literature, specializing in Old English and with broader interests in poetics, literary form, and the relationship between aesthetics and instruction. Her work is also focused on the ways disciplinary history can offer fresh tools for literary inquiry, and in new comparative methodologies for close reading through and beyond disciplinary bounds. Her current book project interweaves the formal strategies of Old English didactic poetry with Tang Chinese verse and later imperial commentary, to deepen the questions we can ask about learning and aesthetic experience in early medieval England. 

She received her Master’s degree in Medieval English Literature from the University of Oxford, and her Ph.D. in English from Yale.