# Anna Wilson Assistant Professor of English *Currently accepting graduate student advisees (On leave AY 2026-27) ![wilson](/sites/g/files/omnuum1611/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/english/files/anna-website-headshot-website.jpg?itok=0QsxgrID) location\_on She/her email [anna\_wilson@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:anna_wilson@fas.harvard.edu) laptop\_windows [Faculty Website](https://www.drannawilson.com) Office Hours: Education: B.A., Cambridge University (2007) Ph.D., University of Toronto (2015) Interests: Medieval English literature and literary culture; Latin literature; medieval Christian visionary writing; letters and epistolarity; women’s writing; fanfiction and fan communities; queer theory; gender and sexuality studies; race in medieval literature; children’s literature and medieval childhood; medievalism in popular culture from the 19th-21stcenturies; disciplinarity and the history of medieval studies. Recent Publications: [“Fan fiction and Premodern Literature: Methods and Definitions.”](https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2037) Transformative Works and Cultures 36 (2021). "Petrarch’s Queer History." Speculum 95, no. 3 (2020): 716-41. “[Reading with Love: The Role of Affect in Fan Fiction.” Transformative Works and Cultures 21](http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/684) (2016). “Similia similibus: Time and Analogy in Thomas of Monmouth’s Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich” Exemplaria 28.1 (2016), 46-71. I am delighted to mentor all Harvard students. As a queer woman, I am particularly happy to support students who identify as LGBTQAII+. I am additionally happy to meet with any Harvard-affiliated graduate students in medieval-adjacent fields to discuss post-PhD careers, within or outside of academia. - ## Person Categories [Faculty](/person-categories/faculty) - ## Role [Faculty](/role/faculty)