Professor Stephanie Trigg FAHA
University of Melbourne
sjtrigg@unimelb.edu.au
Qualifications: BA (Hons) (University of Melbourne), PhD (University of Melbourne), B Litt (University of Melbourne
Year Elected to the Academy: 2006
Discipline: Cultural & Communication Studies, English
Expertise: The literature and culture of late medieval England, cultural memory, ritual practice, Australian medievalism, Australian poetry

Stephanie Trigg was educated at the University of Melbourne, where she graduated with a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature in 1979 and a PhD in English Literature in 1984. She then completed a B.Litt in Philosophy and Social Theory, also at Melbourne. She has taught at the University since 1985, although in 2005 she was Visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University in St Louis. In 2003 she won the Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 2004, the Woodward Medal for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She has been President of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Her publications include: Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture, ed. and intro (2005); Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer From Medieval to Postmodern. Minneapolis and London (2002); The Space of Poetry: Australian Essays on Contemporary Poetics, ed. and intro. with Lyn McCredden (1996).