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Steven Kruger
Professor, Queens College. English and Medieval Studies.
Degrees/Diplomas: Ph.D., Stanford University.
Campus Affiliation: Queens College
Research Interests: Medieval studies, especially Chaucer and late-medieval narrative poetry; medieval interreligious (Jewish-Christian-Islamic) relations; queer theory and lesbian and gay studies, particularly the AIDS crisis and the construction of racial, sexual, religious, and gender categories.
Theory Group Field Specialization: Gay/Lesbian/Queer Literature and Theory|Literary History, Criticism, and Theory
Chronological Period Specialization: Medieval Literature
Phone: (212) 817-8761
Office Hours: Tuesdays 4:15-5:15, & by Appointment
Email: skruger@gc.cuny.edu

Selected Publications:

  • The Spectral Jew: Conversion and Embodiment in Medieval Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/K/kruger_spectral.html

  • Queering the Middle Ages. Ed. Glenn Burger and Steven F. Kruger. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/B/burger_queering.html

  • Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America. Ed. Deborah R. Geis and Steven F. Kruger. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=10297

  • AIDS Narratives: Gender and Sexuality, Fiction and Science. Gender and Genre Series. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. http://www.powells.com/biblio/61-0815309252-1

  • "Claiming the Pardoner: Toward a Gay Reading of Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale." Exemplaria 6 (1994), 115-39.

  • Dreaming in the Middle Ages. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 14. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. [translated into Italian as Il Sogno nel Medio Evo, 1996] http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521019958

  • "The Bodies of Jews in the Late Middle Ages," in James Dean and Christian Zacher, eds., The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992), 301-23.

  • "'GET FAT: don't die!': Eating and AIDS in Gay Men's Culture." in Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz, eds., Eating Culture (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998), 36-59.