Education
Ph.D. Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut 2018
M.A. Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut 2010
B.A. Medieval Studies, Fordham University 2009
Biography
Patrick Butler completed his doctoral work in Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut in 2018. His research interests include Medieval Romance literature, paleography, and medievalism in contemporary media.
His most recent public humanities article: “The Fire Fades: Kindling the Radical Vulnerability of Medieval Romance in the Dark Souls Series,” can be found at: https://www.publicmedievalist.com/dark-souls-knight/.
His forthcoming publication, an extension of the article above, “A Cold and Gentle Place: Medieval Resonances and Subversive Vulnerability in the Dark Souls Series,” will appear in the edited collection Playing the Middle Ages (Bloomsbury, 2023).