About
Kristen Haas Curtis is a medievalist, an adaptation scholar, and an independent cartoonist currently based at the University of Fribourg. In 2020, she completed her master’s degree in English Language and Literature at the University of Fribourg, focusing on adaptation as a process and a product based on both the study of contemporary adaptations of Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale and through the creation of a comic adaptation of the tale. In 2024, she completed her doctoral studies at the University of Bern on obscenity and adaptation in eighteenth-century retellings of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath as part of Prof. Dr. Mary Flannery’s SNSF project COMMode: Canonicity, Obscenity, and the Making of Modern Chaucer. Her cartooning work includes autobiography, travel writing, and literary adaptation in comic form.
Her research interests include all things Chaucer, adaptation studies, feminist age studies, creative practice as analysis, comics and life writing, and autobiography and memoir. She has given guest lectures and taught workshops on various aspects of reading comics as literature, autobiographical cartooning, collaborative adaptation and on text adaptation as a close-reading tool. She is also one of the founding members of the Guild of Medievalist Makers, a professional society dedicated to creative-critical practice.
You can find her on Substack, Instagram, and Bluesky. For more on her academic work, see her ORCID profile. For further questions, including workshop and guest lecture availability, please get in touch via the contact form.