H. M. Cushman

Books

• Staging Bodies of Knowledge: Authority, Performance, and Epistemic Labor in the Middle English Mystery Plays

• Ghostly Manslaughter: Scandal and Medieval Literary Culture. In progress.

• Medieval Darwinisms. In progress.

Articles

• “The Nightman Cometh: Metabolic Rift, Labor, Soil and Scat in Mankind.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Forthcoming. Expected 2027.

• With Spencer Strub, Introduction to “The Eco-Marxist Medieval.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Forthcoming. Expected 2027.

• “Medieval Drama in the Age of Darwin.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Forthcoming 2026.

• “Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale and the Sense of Having.” Exemplaria 35.3 (2023).

• With Richard Newhauser and Arthur Russell, Introduction to “Sensology: Thinking with the Senses.” Exemplaria 35.3 (2023).

• “It’s Not Ibsen.” Post45 Contemporaries. In “Leaving Hollywoo: Essays after Bojack Horseman.” Forum eds. Jack Belloli and Pamela Thurschwell. November 2020.

• Handling Knowledge: Holy Bodies in the Middle English Mystery Plays.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. 47.2 (2017), 279-304. (Winner of the Council for European Studies First Article Prize)

Edited Clusters and Colloquia

• With Spencer Strub, “The Eco-Marxist Medieval.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer. Provisionally accepted. Expected 2027.

• With Richard Newhauser and Arthur Russell, “Sensology: Thinking with the Senses.” Exemplaria. Forthcoming 2023.

Books Chapters

• With Emma Maggie Solberg, “Sensing Sexuality, Staging Gender” in Oxford Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Late Medieval English Literature. Ed. Holly Crocker. Oxford University Press. Expected 2027.

• With Isabel Howard, “Bodies on Display” in A Cultural History of Trans Lives in the Middle Ages (300-1445). Eds. Micah Goodrich and J. D. Sargan. Bloomsbury. Under contract. Scheduled for publication 2027.

Notes

• “An Early or Alternative Version of Frances Cornford’s “To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train.” Accepted with minor revisions. Expected 2025.

• “Humiliatus Sum Vermis: Correction to Translations of a Latin Postscript to the Middle English Lyric ‘Fare Well This World.’” Notes and Queries. May 2025.

• “The Darwin Cycle: A Sequence of Translated Mystery Plays in the Darwin-Cornford Papers.” Notes and Queries. April 2025.

Book Reviews

• Review of Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England by Ingrid Nelson in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 39 (2017), 367-370.

Encyclopedia Entries

• “The Miller's Tale.” The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 May 2021.

• “The Cook’s Tale.” Literature Criticism. 2024.

Other Publications

• “Marie de France at Carolina Public Humanities.” Le Cygne. 2024.