Research and Teaching Interests

Medieval Europe, Gender, Historiography and Historical Methods, Critical Theory

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Biddick's interests are in critical historiography, especially discussions of temporality, cultural studies of technology, gender studies and medieval history. Her most recent monograph, The Typological Imaginary: Circumcision, Technology, History (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), extends her critical work on temporality and periodization. It considers the relationship of graphic technologies with medieval typological thinking and current problems of revisionism in the history of Jewish-Christian relations. Her Shock of Medievalism (Duke 1998) explored some of the nineteenth-century foundations of medieval studies as well as certain unexamined contemporary consequences of these origins. Her other publications include The Other Economy (California 1998) and a volume of edited essays entitled Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe.

Biddick has been selected as a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center; a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Cultural Studies, UC-Santa Cruz and has also been the recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation and the Lilly Foundation.  In 2002-03, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the Media Lab Europe, Dublin where she began work on her current project on sovereignty, the archive, and intermedia.

Current Book Project: Possessing Jews: Sovereignty, Archive, Bare Life

Publications

The Typological Imaginary: Circumcision, Technology, History

(University of Pennsylvanis Press, 2003)

The Shock of Medievalism

(Duke University Press, 1998)

The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate

(University of California Press,1989)

Archaeological Approaches to Medieval Europe

(Medieval Institute Publications, 1984)