Eileen A. Joy

Eileen A. Joy (also Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy; born 1962) is an American literary critic who is a specialist in Old English literary studies and cultural studies and is the publisher and founding director of Punctum Books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion.

She holds a B.A. in English from Virginia Commonwealth University (1984), an M.F.A. in Fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature and Intellectual History from University of Tennessee (2001) with a dissertation Beowulf and the Floating Wreck of History. She is the founder of the BABEL Working Group and is co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.

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