Scholarship and Biography
Dorothy Kim teaches Medieval Literature at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on race, gender, digital humanities, medieval women’s literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Christian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right. She was a 2013-2014 Fellow at the University of Michigan’s Frankel Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies where she drafted a monograph entitled Jewish/Christian Entanglements: Ancrene Wisse and its Material Worlds (under submission, University of Penn Press). She also has another book, The Alt-Medieval: Digital Whiteness and Medieval Studies forthcoming with the University of Minnesota Press. She has a forthcoming book with Lynn Ramey entitled Global Medieval Digital Humanities (Cambridge UP). She has received fellowships from the SSHRC, Ford Foundation, Fulbright, AAUW, and Mellon. She is the co-project director in the NEH-funded Scholarly Editions and Translations project An Archive of Early Middle English that plans to create a 161 MSS database for medieval English manuscripts from 1100-1348 that include all items in Early Middle English. This project is in the process of moving into the Brandeis University DH Lab. She is a project co-PI for the Global Middle Ages Project (http://globalmiddleages.org) She has co-edited two collections in the Digital Humanities. The first collection, co-edited with Jesse Stommel (University of Mary Washington) on Disrupting the Digital Humanities (punctum books, 2019), discusses the marginal methodologies and critical diversities in the Digital Humanities. The second collection, co-edited with Adeline Koh on Alternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities (2021, punctum books), examines the difficult histories of the digital humanities in relation to race, sexuality, gender, disability, fascism. She is co-editing A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age (1350-1550) with Kimberly Coles (University of Maryland, College Park) with Bloomsbury (October 2021). She has edited a special issue of Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality on Medieval Trans Feminisms (October 2019). She edited a double-issue of Literature Compass on Critical Race and the Middle Ages (December 2019). She is the co-editor for Literature Compass’s pre-1800 section with Ruth Connolly (Newcastle University) and the Associate Editor for the Journal of Early Middle English (ArcPress/Amsterdam UP). She spent 2018-2019 AAUW fellow working on her next book, Race, the Crusades, and the Katherine Group.