is an Associate Professor of English at Washington and Lee University and is a 2020-21 Folger Fellow. His monograph, White Before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages (forthcoming from Manchester University Press), examines late-medieval representations of whiteness across bodily and non-somatic figurations.
A guest post by Wan-Chuan Kao Oliver Sacks, who brought to popular awareness many cognitive conditions that are simultaneously debilitating and fascinating—such as visual agnosia, of which face blindness is one type—observes that “our faces bear the stamp of our…
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