Carissa Harris

Associate Professor, English, Temple University

Carissa Harris is associate professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is the author of Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain (2018).

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Medieval manuscript illustration of a hairy creature grabbing a woman from behind, with text in Latin.

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800 years of rape culture

Rape in the Middle Ages was seen as a routine part of women’s lives, even as it was condemned. How far have we really come?

Carissa Harris