Biography
Jeff Stoyanoff completed both his MA in English and his Ph.D. in Medieval Literature at Duquesne University. Before coming to Penn State Altoona, he was an assistant professor of English at Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL. His research interests include medieval and early modern drama, middle English poetry, actor-network theory, and queer and gender theories. He is currently in the process of writing his first book, "Queer Networks of Medieval English Drama," which combines actor-network theory and queer temporality to both recover and recuperate queer identities in the medieval English biblical and morality plays.
Research Interests
- Medieval and early modern drama
- Middle English poetry
- John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
- Actor-Network Theory
- Gender Studies
- Queer Studies
Publications
Queer Networks of Medieval English Drama. University Press of Florida, Forthcoming.
“Queer Play, Queer Pedagogy: The Classroom as Recuperative Space for Queer Identities in Medieval Drama.” Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama, edited by John Sebastian and Emma Lipton (Eds.), MLA, Forthcoming.
“Fragments of Patriarchy in Dux Moraud.” B-Sides: Non-canonical Medieval Texts and Why We Love Them, edited by Melissa Ridley Elmes, Punctum Books, Forthcoming.
"Noah's Wife 'Cowld': Gender and Erasure in the Newcastle Play of Noah." Gender and Violence on the Premodern Stage, edited by Melissa Ridley Elmes and Matthew Carter. Collection under contract with University of Florida Press, Forthcoming.
“Fowl Play: Rape, Social Cannibalism, and Symbiosis in Gower’s ‘Tale of Tereus’.” Of Man Eating Men: Medieval and Early Modern Cannibalism, edited by Christopher Doyle, Christa Tuczay, and Thomas Ballhausen, Brill Academic Publishers, Forthcoming.
“Introduction: Queer and Trans Perspectives in Medieval Drama.” Early Theatre, vol. 27, no.2, 2024, pp. 9-22.
“Deviance.” Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer, edited by Craig Bertolet and Susan Nakley, Routledge, 2024, pp. 327-39.
“Confessio Amantis in the Undergraduate Classroom: Using Actor-Network-Theory to Teach Less Text More.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, vol. 30, no. 1, 2023, pp. 45-52.
“Forbidding Feminine Grief: Affective Exploitation in the Brome Sacrifice of Isaac.” Grief, Gender, and Identity in the Middle Ages: Knowing Sorrow, edited by Lee Templeton, Brill Academic Publishers, 2021, pp. 53-75.
“Queer and Working Class while Reading The Second Shepherds’ Play.” postmedieval, vol. 11, no. 2, 2020, pp. 220-27.
“Dramatic Networks: Marginalized Economics and Labor in The Norwich Grocers’ Play.” Early Theatre, vol. 21, no. 2, 2018, pp.9-28.
“Covetousness in Book 5 of Confessio Amantis: A Medieval Precursor to Neoliberalism.” Accessus, vol. 4, no. 2, 2018.
“The ‘English’ Knight: Creating Medieval Transnationalism in Sir Beves of Hamtoun.” Literature Compass, vol. 14, no. 2, 2017.
“Beginnings and Endings: Narrative Framing in Confessio Amantis.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 79, no. 3-4, 2015, pp. 51-64.
Papers and Presentations
""I wol believe wel that I am noon": The Miller's Tale, Guilt, and Queer Horror," Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN, USA, February 28, 2025 - March 1, 2025.
"Teaching, Learning, and Technology," Commonwealth Connections Instructor Days, Commonwealth Teaching Campus Support, Online, January 9, 2025.
"Transkind: Crossing Gender Boundaries in Mankind," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA, May 9, 2024 - May 11, 2024.
"Global Learning in ENGL 202B: Writing for the Humanities, Fall 2023," Global Learning Showcase, Penn State Global, Online, April 18, 2024.
"Queer Community in the Towneley Noah," Identity in Flux, UNC Program in Medieval and Modern Studies and Brown University Program in Medieval Studies, Online, October 20, 2023.
"Facilitating Difficult Questions on Racial Equality, Social Justice, and Sexuality," Commonwealth Connections Instructor Days, Commonwealth Teaching Campus Support, Online, August 9, 2023 - August 10, 2023.
"Gower’s Wisdom: Book VII of the Confessio Amantis and the Morality Play," V International Congress of the John Gower Society 2023, John Gower Society, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, July 7, 2023 - July 10, 2023.
"On Latour," V International Congress of the John Gower Society 2023, John Gower Society, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, July 7, 2023 - July 10, 2023.
"Patriarchal Bodies in Dux Moraud," Medieval English Theatre Society Annual Meeting, Medieval English Theatre Society, Birmingham, UK, April 1, 2023.
"Castle of Queerness: The Castle of Perseverance and Queer Temporality," Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Sewanee, TN, USA, March 24, 2023 - March 25, 2023.