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Heather Blurton

Professor

  • Office:
    South Hall 2718
  • Office Hours:
    by appointment

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Heather Blurton’s research and teaching interests are in the high Middle Ages (rather loosely interpreted as 950 – 1250) in England and France, particularly in literary responses to the Norman Conquest, the intersections of romance, hagiography and historiography, Jewish/Christian encounters and the medieval history of antisemitism, and medieval monsters. She is the author of four books – Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature (Palgrave MacMillan 2007), The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale co-authored with Hannah R. Johnson (University of Michigan Press, 2017), Inventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150 – 1200 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), and Richard the Lionheart: in Life and in Legend (Reaktion Books, 2025) – as well as the edited collections Rethinking the South English Legendaries, with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne and Bestsellers and Masterpieces: the changing medieval canon, with Dwight F. Reynolds.

Prof. Blurton is also a faculty affiliate with the UCSB Comparative Literature Department and the Medieval Studies Program

Research Areas

  • c. 1500 and earlier

Research Center Affiliations

  • Office:
    South Hall 2718
  • Office Hours:
    by appointment
  • Fax:
    (805) 893-4622
  • Email:
  • Mailing Address:
    English Department UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170

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