Eileen A. Joy

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Eileen A. Joy (a.k.a. Eileen A Fradenburg Joy) is a specialist in Old English literary studies [1] and cultural studies [2] and is the publisher and founding director of Punctum Books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion. [3] She holds a B.A. in English from Virginia Commonwealth University (1984), an M.F.A. in Fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature [4] and Intellectual History from University of Tennessee (2001) with a dissertation Beowulf and the Floating Wreck of History. [5] She is the founder of the BABEL Working Group and is co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies . [6] [7]

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Joy's research interests [8] also span poetry and poetics, intellectual history, ethics, affects, embodiment, queer studies, object/thing studies, [9] the ecological, post-humanisms, and open access scholarly communications. [10]

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