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Patricia Dailey

Title: Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Institution: Columbia

Discipline: Literature & Writing

Appearances: 1

Notable: Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship; translator of Giorgio Agamben's The Time That Remains (Stanford, 2005); co-founder of the University Seminar on Affect Studies

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Biography

Patricia Dailey is a scholar of medieval literature and critical theory who joined the Columbia faculty in 2004. Her book Promised Bodies: Time, Language, and Corporeality in Medieval Women's Mystical Texts (Columbia University Press, 2013) examined the relation between gender, temporality, the body, and language in medieval mystical texts. She has translated works by Giorgio Agamben, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and Antonio Negri, and is a former Director of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

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