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Marisa Sikes is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of New Mexico. She is pursuing the Medieval Studies concentration in which her major field is Middle English. She is also currently a graduate student instructor of first-year composition, a research assistant within the Department of English, secretary of UNM’s Medieval Studies Student Association, and looking forward to taking up a position on the Vagantes Graduate Student Board. Marisa came to UNM after having received her M.A. from the University of South Florida in 2004 where she produced her thesis on the Pearl-poet: ““A Multiplicity of Maidens: Femininities of the Pearl-Manuscript Poems.” Her research interests include medieval literature by and about women, religious history and hagiography, concepts of the monstrous, new historicism, and gender studies. Marisa is also a web administrator of the MEGSE site.
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