Daniel Davies

I am an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston. My research focuses on late-medieval literary and historical writing, with a particular interest in the history of poetry and poetics. I am also interested in the material, intellectual, and creative afterlives of the Middle Ages. 

I am a 2024-25 Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where I am completing my first book, Under Siege: Perpetual Warfare and Late Medieval Literature. My research has also been supported by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Strarthmatine Trust.

I recently published  Literatures of the Hundred Years War, a collection of essays I co-edited with R.D. Perry and available open access from Manchester University Press. My work on medieval literary history, siege warfare, and manuscript studies has appeared in Modern Language Quarterly, New Medieval Literatures, and Medium Ævum.  My public-facing scholarship has appeared in The Millions, Full Stop, Avidly, Public Seminar, and the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Collation blog.

Originally from Manchester, England, I studied in Edinburgh and Berlin before a Thouron Award brought me to the US. You can read more about my experience here. I received my Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021.