Wendy Chapman Peek
Professor of English, Director of Gender Sexuality Studies Program
B.A. Rutgers College
M.A. Cornell University
Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, Cornell University
Email: wpeek@stonehill.edu
Phone: (508) 565-1706
Office:Cushing Martin, 123
Wendy Chapman Peek's research interests are balanced between literature of the European Middle Ages and films of the American West. As a medievalist, she has published "'King by Day, Queen by Night': the virgin Camille in the Roman d'Eneas," which appeared in Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Her work on Westerns has appeared in The Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of Popular Film and Television,and Bright Lights. Her current project is titled Complicated Shadows, a book-length manuscript on masculinity in 1950s Westerns.
Courses Taught:- Storytelling in New Media
- American Cinema
- The Calamitous 14th Century
- Machine Culture