Daniel Davies is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he specializes in late-medieval literary and historical writing, with particular emphasis on poetry, poetics, and the cultural afterlives of medieval literature.

He is completing his first book, Under Siege: Perpetual Warfare and Late Medieval English Literature. He was a 2024-25 Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and his research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, and Folger Shakespeare Library.

Davies co-edited Literatures of the Hundred Years War with R.D. Perry, available open access from Manchester University Press. His scholarship on medieval literary history, siege warfare, and manuscript studies appears in Modern Language Quarterly, The Chaucer Review, New Medieval Literatures. His public-facing writing features in The Millions, Full Stop, Avidly, Public Seminar, and the Folger Shakespeare Library's Collation blog.

Originally from Manchester, England, Davies studied in Edinburgh and Berlin before receiving a Thouron Award to study in the United States. He completed his Ph.D. in English at the University of Pennsylvania in 2021.