Kathryn L. Lynch is the Katharine Lee Bates and Sophie Chantal Hart Professor of�English at Wellesley College。从2010年到2017年,她担任学院院长房颤fairs, with a broad portfolio of departments in the arts and humanities, and from 2018-2020, she was Director of the Wellesley CollegeFreedom Project。She received her B.A. from Stanford University (majoring in English and Classics) and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in English Language and Literature. Her scholarly specialty is medieval English literature, especially the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer. She is the author of two books (The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form�[Stanford, 1988] and�Chaucer's Philosophical Visions�[D.S. Brewer, 2000]), and is the editor of a two others (Chaucer's Cultural Geography�[Routledge, 2002] and�Dream Visions and Other Poems�[a Norton Critical Edition, 2007]. Her edition of the dream-visions has recently been incorporated intoThe Norton Chaucer(2019). She has also written numerous articles and book reviews on medieval topics, which have appeared in journals likeSpeculum, The Chaucer Review,andStudies in the Age of Chaucer, as well as opinion pieces on issues of importance in higher education for publications such asThe Washington PostandThe Boston Globe.She is currently writing about the representation of food in Chaucer’sCanterbury Talesand experimenting with some new modes of writing. She lives in Wellesley, MA, with her husband, Robert McDonnell (a lawyer). She has three adult children who (currently) live respectively in New York, Oregon, and Massachusetts, and are pursuing careers in law, fiction-writing, and music/computer science.