Dr. Meriem Pages

Degrees and Credentials: BA Medieval Studies, Mount Holyoke College; MA History, Stanford University; MA Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; PhD Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Professional interests: Specializes in the image of Islam in medieval Europe. Other research interests include nineteenth-century and contemporary medievalism.

Professional Background: Joined the English department at Keene State College in the fall of 2006.

Meriem Pagès is Professor in the English Department at Keene State College, where she teaches a range of courses on medieval literature. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1999 with a B.A. in Medieval Studies and went on to receive an M.A. in History from Stanford University (2001), and an M.A. and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2004 and 2007). Her primary area of research is the representation of Islam and Muslims in medieval European texts, and she is the author of From Martyr to Murderer: Representations of the Assassins in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Europe (Syracuse University Press, 2014) and Chaucer and Becket's Mother: The Man of Law's Tale, Race, and Conversion in the Middle Ages (Arc Humanities Press, 2023). In addition to various essays and articles, she has also edited The Middle Ages on Television: Critical Essays with Karolyn Kinane (McFarland, 2015), Imagining the Self, Constructing the Past: Selected Proceedings from the 36th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum with Robert G. Sullivan (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016), and Art and Violence in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance also with Robert G. Sullivan (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2020). She currently serves as the Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Forum and the Coordinator of the Center for Creative Inquiry.