Patricia Dailey

Patricia Dailey is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Co-Chair of the Affect Studies University Seminar, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Council, and the Colloquium for Early Medieval Studies.  Her book Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women’s Mystical Texts (Columbia University Press, 2013) looks at the way women’s mystical texts of the Middle Ages offer us an embodied sense of “living the way one reads.” Her current research focuses on the experience of  poetics and the ubiquitousness of  what we think of as “the literary” in early medieval England (ca. 800-1100). Having translated works by Negri, Agamben, and Lyotard, her teaching and research involve contemporary philosophy and critical theory, including what these fields might teach us about the nature of psychedelic experience and its relation to memory, trauma studies, and ecstatic experience.