Hillary Cheramie

Research interests:

Medieval Literature, Racial Capitalism, Geography, Travel Narratives, Compendia, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Literature, Monstrosity and Marginality, Cannibalism, Genre, Global Waste Trade

EDUCATION

University of California, Davis     Davis, CA
Ph.D. English Literature    June 2024
Dissertation: Bountiful and Barren: Speculative (Re)presentations of Racial Capitalism in the Middle Ages 

Hunter College    New York, NY
B.A. English Literature; Minor in Cultural Anthropology     June 2016
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
Honors thesis: “Othello: The Native Cannibal and the Eurocannibal”

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Medieval Literature, Racial Capitalism, Geography, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Literature, Travel Narratives, Postcolonial Theory, Critical Race Theory, Monstrosity and Marginality, Cannibalism, Genre, Global Waste Trade

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS

Miller Travel Award    July 2023
Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Foundation Dissertation Fellowship    2022-2023
Donald R. Howard Travel Scholarship    Summer 2022
James and Roberta Woodress Endowed Fund Grant for International Research    Summer 2022
MLA Convention Grant    Fall 2021
The Mellon Research Initiative on Racial Capitalism Summer Fellowship    Summer 2020
Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant    November 2018
English Department Fellowship    2017-2018
Helen Gray Cone Fellowship in English    2016
Blanche Colton Williams Fellowship in English    2016

PUBLICATIONS

“Medieval Compendia and the Origins of Racial Capitalism,” Ethnicity and Race in the Literatures of the Global West, ca. 500–1500, ed. Nahir I. Otaño Gracia and Jonathan Correa Reyes, Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025.

“Mandeville’s Racializing Prism: Race and Time in Medieval Speculative Fiction,” Mandeville at 700: New Essays on Mandeville’s Travels, ed. Sarah Salih and Tom White, King’s College London Medieval Studies, forthcoming 2024.

Review of “World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture,” by Louise D’Arcens, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Comitatus 54, no. 1 (2023): 221–23.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & LECTURES

New Chaucer Society 
Transtemporal Methodologies: Time Management in Medieval and Modern 
World-Building Literature    July 2024

New Chaucer Society 
The Book of John Mandeville and the Critics: “Google Mappaemundi”    July 2022

Mandeville 700 at King’s College
“Mandeville’s Racializing Prism”    June 2022

Modern Language Association 
Racial Capitalism and the Middle Ages: “Medieval Compendia and Racial Capitalism”    January 2022

The Mellon Research Initiative in Racial Capitalism at UC Davis    April 2021
Respondent to Wan-Chuan Kao’s “In the Lap of Whiteness”

PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Instructor    UC Davis
ENL 177: Study of an Individual Author: John Donne    Spring 2025 
ENL 113B: Canterbury Tales    Winter 2025
ENL 106: English Grammar    Fall 2025
ENL 3A: Writer’s Workshop    Winter 2022 - Fall 2024 
ENL 3: Introduction to Literature    Fall 2020 - Fall 2024
UWP 1: Academic Literacies    Winter 2019-Summer 2020
UWP 1: Expository Writing    Fall 2018

Teaching Assistant    UC Davis
ENL 113A: Chaucer: Troilus & the “Minor” Poems    Spring 2024
ENL 113B: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales  Winter 2024
CLA 020: Pompeii    Fall 2021
CLA 010: Greek Mythology Spring 2021
HIS 190A: Middle East 600-1000    Fall 2020
GER 011: Travel and the Modern World     Spring 2020
ENL 186: Literature, Gender, and Sexuality   Spring 2018
ENL 113B: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales     Winter 2018
ENL 117: Early Shakespeare and the Theater     Fall 2017

Pedagogical Training    UC Davis
UWP 390: Theory and Practice of University-Level Composition Instruction    Spring 2018
UWP 392: Teaching Composition     Fall 2018
ENL 393: Teaching Literature and Composition    Spring 2020
ENL 298: Teaching Composition    Fall 2020

OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE & SERVICE

Co-Chair, English Graduate Student Association    2021-2022
Graduate Student Researcher (Professor Mark Jerng)    Summer 2021
Secretary, English Graduate Student Association    2020-2021
Mentor, English Graduate Student Association    2019-2021
English Department Representative, Graduate Student Association    2019-2020
Data Science Initiative Affiliate    September 2018 – Present
Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
“Exploring Early Modern Maps”: Research Methods Workshop    November 2018

LANGUAGES
English
Spanish (reading)
Portuguese (reading)
Latin (reading)
Old French (reading)