Arthur Bahr, Professor of Literature at MIT. He studies medieval literature, and especially enjoys reading old books as if they were poems. He is the author of Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript: Speculation, Shapes, Delight (University of Chicago Press, 2024); Fragments and Assemblages: Forming Compilations of Medieval London (University of Chicago Press, 2013); and co-editor of Medieval English Manuscripts: Form, Aesthetics, and the Literary Text, a special volume of The Chaucer Review (47.4, April 2013). His essays have appeared in ELH, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, Studies in Philology, and The Chaucer Review, among others. His next project combines his interest in manuscripts with his training as a figure skating judge to explore analogies between sheets of parchment and sheets of ice, as sites of performance, inscription, and erasure. He has been Chair and Co-Chair of Ancient and Medieval Studies, and Curriculum Chair and Undergraduate Officer of Literature.
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