B.A. Sarah Lawrence College; Ph.D. University of California, Irvine (2002); LMS, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (2005). Patricia Dailey joined Columbia faculty in 2004 after a holding a Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University (2002-2004). She specializes in medieval literature and critical theory, focusing on women's mystical texts, and early medieval English poetry and prose. Her book Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts (Columbia University Press, 2013) examines the relation between gender, temporality, the body, and language in medieval mystical texts, with a focus on the thirteenth century mystic Hadewijch. Her current book projects, include a book on the arboreal sublime and a second book, In Parentheses, on the poetics of lived experience. She is the co-editor, with Veerle Fraeters, of A Companion to Hadewijch (forthcoming, Brill). Articles include, “The Elemental Sublime” forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of the Sublime, “Planting Sublimity” forthcoming in Medieval Ecocriticisms, “Inventing Experience in Psychedelics,” forthcoming (2025) in SAQ, "Riddles, Wonder, and Responsiveness in Anglo-Saxon Literature," in the Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature 500-1150 (2012); "The Body and its Senses" and "Time and Memory" in the Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism (2012); "Children of Promise: The Bodies of Hadewijch of Antwerp," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Spring, 2011); and "Questions of Dwelling in Anglo-Saxon Poetry and Medieval Mysticism: Inhabiting Landscape, Body, Mind," New Medieval Literatures (vol 8, 2006). Other articles have appeared in the Syndicate Network (2022), Women's Studies Quarterly, Witness Issue (2007), Le Secret: Motif et Moteur de la Litterature (1999), Les Imaginaires du Mal (2000), the PMLA's special issue on Derrida (2005), and Routledge's Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia. In addition to her work in medieval literature, she co-authored Cieli in uni Stanza/Skies in a Room with Sandro Marpillero in Vesper 7, has translated works by Giorgio Agamben (The Time That Remains, Stanford 2005), Jean-François Lyotard, and Antonio Negri. Her interview with Lyotard is forthcoming in Jean-François Lyotard: The later Interviews and Debates 1983-1997, ed. Kiff Bamford. She is the founder of the Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies (formerly the Anglo-Saxon Studies Colloquium) and co-founder of the Affect Studies University Seminar. She has served as the Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and is the Co-Chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Council (WGSSC). She was the initiator and co-founder of the Junior Faculty Advisory Board (JFAB), and is currently serving as Chair.
