Seeta Chaganti
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Alma materHarvard University (A.B.); Georgetown University (MA); Yale University (PhD).
DisciplineEnglish studies
Sub-disciplineMedieval poetry
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Davis
Seeta Chaganti | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (A.B.); Georgetown University (MA); Yale University (PhD). |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | English studies |
| Sub-discipline | Medieval poetry |
| Institutions | University of California, Davis |
Seeta Chaganti is a medievalist and professor of English at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on Old and Middle English poetry and contemporary material culture.
Chaganti completed her A.B. at Harvard University in 1989, followed by an M.A. at Georgetown University in 1995.[1] Her MA dissertation was entitled Crossing the boundaries of substance and accident: rhetoric, ecclesiastical hypocrisy, and eucharistic language in The Pardoner's Tale.[2] She then completed a PhD at Yale University in 2001, with a thesis entitled Memorial and metamorphosis: the image of the reliquary in the poetry of medieval England and France.[3]
