Before joining the ASU English Department in 2008, Dr. Gulley taught at Lees-McRae College and Randolph-Macon College. Her primary research focus has been the hagiographical writings of the Old English abbot and church reformer Ælfric of Eynsham, and her book, The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Lives of the Virgin Martyrs, compares his Old English hagiographical writings to their 3rd- and 4th-century Latin sources. Her current work involves the apocalyptic context of Ælfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses. Dr. Gulley is also in the process of editing a collection of essays on ethical approaches to teaching medieval rape narratives.
Website: https://english.appstate.edu/faculty-staff/alison-gulley
Recent GWS Scholarship
Edited volume: Teaching Rape in the Medieval Literature Classroom: Approaches to Difficult Texts. Ed. Alison Gulley. Teaching the Middle Ages 1. Amsterdam and Kalamazoo: University of Amsterdam Press/ARC Humanities Press, 2018.
The volume includes two of my essays:
“Introduction: Teaching Rape: Challenges in the 21st-Century Classroom.” 1-11.
“‘How do we know he really raped her?’: Using the BBC Canterbury Tales to Confront Student Skepticism When Teaching the `Wife of Bath’s Tale.’” 113-127
Journal article: “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Sexual Renunciation, Apocalyptic Anticipation, and Liminality in Ælfric’s Lives of the Virgin Spouses.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 117 (2018): 141-159.
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Department of English
Email address: Email me
Phone: (828) 262-7303