Erin k. Wagner

My doctorate is in English literature with an interdisciplinary specialization in Medieval & Renaissance Studies. When I’m doing academic research, I study the heretical identity in late medieval England. This focus intersects with additional forms of “othering”–including along lines of race and gender in addition to religion. You can check out some of my academic work below. My monograph, The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval England, is also included with my other books in case you’re hoping to splurge.

Also, I sometimes write about TV and pop culture. Because fun.

Interview with The Medieval Podcast, 11.13.2025

The Language of Heresy in Late Medieval English Literature. Medieval Institute Press, 2024. 

“ ‘But alas! I had now no heart’: The Dystopic Intertextuality of The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Mad Max 2 (1981),” Literature/Film Quarterly 47.4 (2019) 

“ ‘Ech good gramarien hath power to construe Scripture’: Grammar and the Vernacular in the Theology of Reginald Pecock,” Studies in Philology 116.4 (2019): 640-667 

“The Road to Emmaus/Smithfield: Rhetoric, Revelation, and Repentance in Thomas Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes,” Medieval Perspectives 33 (2018): 107-126 

“Scriptural Allusion in ll. 38-39 of the Prologue to Piers Plowman,” Yearbook of Langland Studies 30 (2016): 325-329