Dr Samuel Lasman

Sam Lasman is the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Early-Career Research Fellow. Previously, he was a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, where he earned his PhD in Comparative Literature in 2020. His dissertation, Dragons, Fairies, and Time: Supernatural Encounters in Medieval Welsh, Persian, and French Narratives won the Dean's Distinguished Dissertation Award from the University of Chicago's Division of the Humanities in 2021. His research focuses on the monstrous, parahuman, and supernatural in medieval narrative literature, with a particular focus on the Iranian world and northwestern Europe. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in venues including Viator, the Global Medieval Sourcebook, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, and the edited volume Persian Literature as World Literature. He also serves on the editorial board of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.