Krista Sue-Lo Twu

Krista Twu
Professional Title
University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Arts, Humanities, and Design Chair (2025-2027); Associate Professor of Medieval & Renaissance Literature; UMN Center for Medieval Studies Graduate Faculty

What I'm reading right now:

  • The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts, by Christopher de Hamel (2023)
  • Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World, by Irene Vallejo (trans. Whittle, 2023)
  • The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton (2013)

 

What I'm writing right now:

  • Easier, Harder, Bastard: An Introduction to Medieval Paleography
  • The Book of the North
Book cover promo

Website: https://www.bookofthenorth.com/ 

https://bookofthenorth.carrd.co/ 

 

The best poem of all time:

Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requires?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
     (Catullus, Poem 85, ca. 50CE)

Education

Ph.D. in English, University of California, Irvine
Graduate Certificates:
     Paleography & Codicology: University of Notre Dame
     Medieval Latin: University of Notre Dame
M.A. in English, University of California, Irvine
B.A. in English, Latin Minor, University of California, Berkeley

Teaching Interests 

Medieval & Renaissance Literature, Material Book Culture, Comparative Literature, Religious Literature, Critical Theory, Literary History, Codicology, Paleography, Philology.

 

Courses

ENGL 1535: King Arthur in Literature, History and Art

ENGL 2535: The Bible in Literature, History and Art

ENGL 2800: Nature Writing

ENGL 2920: Literary History & Traditions

ENGL 3222: Shakespeare

ENGL 3661: Publishing the Middle Ages

ENGL 3821: History of the English Language

HON 3595: Medieval Information Technology

Coming Soon! ENGL3xxx The Book Lab

Research Interests 

Medieval Literature in Middle English and Latin, Religious Law and Literature, Chaucer, Boethius, Paleography and Codicology.

"The Book of the North & The Future of the Past"

 

 

Publications

“Chaucer,” with Lindsey Simon-Jones and Derrick Pitard, in the Year’s Work in English Studies, Vol. 100 (2021), ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack. Oxford University Press.

“Chaucer,” with Lindsey Simon-Jones and Derrick Pitard, in the Year’s Work in English Studies, Vol. 99 (2020), ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack. Oxford University Press.

“Chaucer,” with Lindsey Simon-Jones and Derrick Pitard, in the Year’s Work in English Studies, Vol. 98 (2019), ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack. Oxford University Press.

Review Article, with Dr. Katie Owens-Murphy: Philip Edward Phillips, Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana. Palgrave McMillan, 2014. Carmina Philosophiae, Vol 23 (2014).

Book Review: Joel C. Relihan, The Prisoner’s Philosophy: Life and Death in Boethius’s Consolation. University of Notre Dame Press, 2007, in Speculum, Vol. 84, No. 4 (Oct. 2009).

Review Article: Mark Miller, Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Carmina Philosophiae 15 (2006).

“Chaucer's Vision of the Tree of Life: Crossing the Road with the Rood in the Parson’s Tale,” Chaucer Review 39.4 (2005).

“The Awntyrs off Arthure: Reliquary for Romance,” Arthurian Literature XX (2003).