Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1998
M.Phil., University of Cambridge, 1993
A.B., Harvard University, 1991

Claire Waters joined the faculty at Davis in 2001. She studies late-medieval literature and culture, with particular interests in saints' lives, preaching, Chaucer, manuscript culture and the Old French fabliaux. She is a member of the editorial board of the Broadview Anthology of British Literature.


Selected Honors

• Chancellor's Teaching Fellowship, UC-Davis, 2007–08 (with Kendra Smith)
• UC President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2004-05
• Rockefeller Foundation residency, Bellagio Study Center, 2001

Publication Spotlight

Virgins and Scholars: A Fifteenth-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria. Critical edition, with introduction and translations. Brepols, 2008. 

Selected Publications

• "Holy Familiars: Work, Enclosure, and the Saints at Syon." Philological Quarterly 87:1–2 (Winter–Spring 2008): 135–62.
• "The Labor of Aedificatio and the Business of Preaching in the Thirteenth Century." Viator 38 (2007): 167–89.
• "Power and Authority," in A Companion to Middle English Hagiography, ed. Sarah Salih. Boydell and Brewer, 2006. 70–86.
• Angels and Earthly Creatures: Preaching, Performance, and Gender in the Later Middle Ages.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Email:  cmwaters@ucdavis.edu