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Joe Stadolnik is an independent researcher and writer based in Chicago, Illinois. His scholarly work has studied medieval English literature and culture, in particular literature and sciences, manuscript studies, and medievalism in the Americas. From 2018-2021, he held postdoctoral positions at the Institute on the Formation Knowledge. In 2017-18, he was a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London. He earned a PhD in English from Yale University in spring 2017.

He co-edited Geoffrey Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe for the new Cambridge Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (with Jenna Mead). A biography-in-preparation, called The Unsettled Life of Duarte Brandão, was shortlisted for the 2019 Tony Lothian Prize.