Medieval English and Irish Literature, Popular and Oral Culture, Gender Studies. Third Stage.

Currently a Ph.D. student in the UCLA English Department, Andrea studies in particular the cross-pollination of literature and folklore in England and Ireland during the Middle Ages. Her work in those areas has included projects on oral culture and The Book of Margery Kempe, the legends of St. Juliana in English and Irish, and obscenity in the Canterbury Tales. Andrea plans to write a dissertation on medieval outlaw legends and their relationship to authority, gender, and nationalism. She also is interested in uses of the medieval and folklore in Gothic literature.

Andrea's hometown is Asheville, North Carolina, "where altitude brings attitude," according to the tourism ads. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a BA in English with a minor in Folklore and then worked in civilian jobs (including one peddling websites during the dot-com glory days) before returning to active service in academia. She now lives in Koreatown with two housemates, a parrot, a frog, and a time-share dog.

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