Aylin Malcolm

Assistant Professor

School of Theatre, English, and Creative Writing

Email:

amalco08@uoguelph.ca

Phone number:

x53504

Website links:

https://aylinmalcolm.com/

Summary:

Aylin Malcolm teaches courses on medieval literature, critical theory, and the environmental humanities. Their current book project explores medieval accounts of animals—from dogs to whales—in relation to reason, experimentation, and grief. More broadly, they are interested in what literature can contribute to the history of natural science, from the twelfth century to the present moment of ecological crisis. With Nat Rivkin, they coedited a special issue of Medieval Ecocriticisms on gender variance and human/nonhuman relationships in the Middle Ages (2024). Their other research interests include premodern astronomy, oceanic studies, and the history of the book from medieval manuscripts to the handpress period.

Environmental Humanities
Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Animal Studies
Literature and Science
History of the Book
Queer and Trans Theory
Digital Editing and Archives

PhD, University of Pennsylvania

MA, The Ohio State University

BA and Sc, McGill University

“Not Reading the Edition” (with Whitney Trettien and Cassidy Holahan), Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing (2025).
“Animals,” The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer (2024).
“Birds, Blood, and Nonbinary Bodies in Marie de France’s Yonec,” Medieval Ecocriticisms (2024).
“Out of the Woods: The Nature of Gender in Le Roman de Silence,” ISLE (2024).
“Trans Studies,” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing (2024).
“What the Mole Knows: Experience, Exempla, and Interspecies Dialogue in Albert the Great’s De animalibus," New Medieval Literatures (2022).
“Long in the Tusk: Narwhals, Then and Now,” Environmental History Now (2021).
“Of Monks and Movable Beasts: Animals as Fellow Travelers in the Navigatio sancti Brendani abbatis,” Viator (2021).
“In the Orbit of the Sphere: Sacrobosco’s De sphaera mundi in UPenn MS Codex 1881,” Manuscript Studies (2020).

Aylin Malcolm

Academic Units

Centres, Institutes and Labs