RYAN MCDERMOTT

Ryan McDermott is founder and faculty director of Beatrice Institute and associate professor of medieval literature and culture in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his Ph.D. in English from University of Virginia after completing an M.T.S. at Duke Divinity School. His first book, Tropologies: Ethics and Invention in England, c. 1350-1600 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2016), tracks changes and continuities in vernacular religious literature across the intellectual and cultural watershed of the English Reformation. Ryan directs the cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional project Genealogies of Modernity, and is working on a second book, Theology of Incorruptibility: On Dead Bodies and the Eschatology of Traditions.