{"id":4013,"date":"2025-09-10T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2025-09-19T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T17:50:43","slug":"associate-professor-publishes-in-pmla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2025\/09\/10\/associate-professor-publishes-in-pmla\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Professor Publishes in PMLA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associate Professor J. Davis-Secord has published&nbsp;&#8220;Trans Saints in Old English&#8221; in the journal&nbsp;<em>PMLA<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article uncovers the fractured and conflicting understandings of sex and gender in early medieval England around the year 1000 CE by exploring the Old English literary biographies of two saints often presented as women disguised as men. \u00c6lfric\u2019s\u00a0<em>Eugenia\u00a0<\/em>upholds binary gender expectations, while an alternative version of\u00a0<em>Eugenia<\/em>\u2014changed by a scribe and surviving in the burned remains of a single manuscript\u2014oscillates between acceptance and intolerance. The anonymous\u00a0<em>Euphrosyne<\/em>, in contrast, challenges gender norms throughout. The article argues that these characters and the texts\u2019\u00a0competing views on sex and gender can be best understood by recognizing these two saints not as women in disguise but as trans men. A trans studies approach combined with philology and source study respects these two figures on their own terms while also uncovering elements of these texts and their cultural context that usually lie obscured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article through the Cambridge University Press <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1632\/S0030812925000185\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor J. Davis-Secord has published&nbsp;&#8220;Trans Saints in Old English&#8221; in the journal&nbsp;PMLA. The article uncovers the fractured and conflicting understandings of sex and gender in early medieval England around the year 1000 CE by exploring the Old English literary biographies of two saints often presented as women disguised as men. \u00c6lfric\u2019s\u00a0Eugenia\u00a0upholds binary gender expectations, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}