Dr Shauna Roach
Teaching Fellow
Email: Shauna.Roach@warwick.ac.uk
Room 5.35, Faculty of Arts Building, 果冻传媒, Coventry, CV4 7EQ
About
I am a Teaching Fellow (Medieval and Early Modern Literature) in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. I first became interested in medieval literature as an undergraduate English student at the University of Bristol, where I returned to complete an MA in Medieval Studies and a PhD in English Literature. Before joining the English department at 果冻传媒, I taught at the University of Bristol and Cardiff University.
Office Hours
My office hours take place Wednesday 12:30-13:30 and Thursday 15:30-16:30 in FAB 5.35. You can book an office hour slot . If you would prefer to meet online rather than in person, please let me know when you place the booking.
Teaching 2026-7
EN121 Medieval and Early Modern LiteratureLink opens in a new window
First year Academic Enrichment Programme (FYAE)
Intermediate Academic Enrichment (AE2)
Research
My research interests include the literature of Chaucer and his contemporaries and late medieval literature and social cultures, more broadly.
My doctoral research interrogated how virtuous identities are constructed in the literature of Geoffrey Chaucer by bringing to light the key ethical concerns explored in his literature. It proposed that, in Chaucer鈥檚 works, virtue is intersectional 鈥� occupation, gender, and class produce different understandings of what it means to behave virtuously, and this is reflected in the diverse social identities represented in Chaucer鈥檚 literature. My research moves away from treating Chaucer as a philosophical poet and instead proposes a new way of looking at Chaucerian virtue as inspired by the ideals and practices of everyday life.
At present, I am revising and developing my doctoral research with the aim of publishing my first monograph.