Career
After completing her PhD,Chaganti joined the English department at UC Davis,where she continues to work. Her first book,entitled The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary:Enshrinement,Inscription,Performance,The New Middle Ages,was published in 2008 and built upon her PhD thesis;it is a study on the relationship between reliquaries and poetic form. [4]
In 2018,Chaganti published her second monograph on dance and medieval poetics. This won the Modern Language Association's 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies. [5] [6]
Chaganti was appointed a Trustee of the New Chaucer Society for the period 2018–2022. [7] She has also been elected as a Councillor of the Medieval Academy of America for 2020–23. [8] In 2019,she served as a member of Medievalists of Color's steering committee, [9] and as of 2021 is an Executive Board Member of RaceB4Race. [10] She also served as an interim director for the Davis Humanities Institute in 2013. [11]
Over the course of her academic career,Chaganti has been awarded various fellowships and awards. These include an Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award from UC Davis in 2014, [12] and an Outstanding Mentor Award from UC Davis' Consortium for Women and Research in 2012. [11] She was awarded a Davis Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellowship in 2015, [13] and a Society for the Humanities Fellowship at Cornell University in 2009. [14]
Chaganti's current research interests include a project on early English law's role in violence in the American South, [1] and a collaboration with Gabrielle Nevitt on poetic form and animal studies. [15]
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