Emily Youree

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025

Office: Griffin 333
E-mail: emily.youree@louisiana.edu

Pronouns: she/her

Teaching and Research Areas

Middle English literature; law and literature; outlaw narratives; medievalism

Noteworthy

Emily Youree's research centers on questions of outlawry, legality, and sovereignty in late medieval English literature and its afterlives. She has received research and travel awards from Studies in Philology, the Medieval Academy of America, and the International Piers Plowman Society. Recently, Emily has published on Chaucer's deployment of outlaw tropes in The Friar's Tale, and her current research topics include the role of borders in medieval romance and the use of Robin Hood adaptations in the nineteenth-century American South.

Publications

“Yeoman, Outlaw, Demon: Reading the Friar’s Tale as an Outlaw Tale.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology 124, no. 1 (2025): 59-83.