Stephanie Trigg

Stephanie Trigg is the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature in the School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. She earned an Honours degree and a PhD in English from the Department of English at the University of Melbourne, along with a B.Litt. degree in Philosophy and Social Theory from Oxford University. Throughout her academic career at the University of Melbourne, Trigg has held significant leadership positions, including as former Head of the English and Theatre Programme. Her primary research interests encompass Australian medievalism, medieval literature, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English literature, and medievalism more broadly.

Trigg serves as a Foundational Chief Investigator for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, leading the research program on Shaping the Emotional Landscape of Public Appearance. She is the Primary Investigator for the project Literature and the Face: A Critical History. Her influential publications include the monographs Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern (University of Minnesota Press, 2002) and Shame and Honor: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012), as well as the co-authored Affective Medievalism: Love, Abjection and Discontents (with Thomas A. Prendergast, Manchester University Press, 2018). Among her edited volumes are Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture (Brepols and Melbourne University Publishing, 2005), Medieval English Poetry (Longman, 1993), and the standard edition of Wynnere and Wastoure (Oxford University Press, 1990). Recent scholarly articles feature 'The Face and Faciality in Medieval French Literature, 1170-1390' in French Studies (2022), 'Women in Uniform: Dress and Performance in Medieval Court Culture,' and 'Facing Up to the History of Emotions.' A festschrift in her honor, Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries: Essays for Stephanie Trigg, was published in 2019 by Manchester University Press. Trigg was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2006 and serves on its Council. Her scholarship is evidenced by over 1,000 citations on Google Scholar.

Professional Email: sjtrigg@unimelb.edu.au