Research Statement
I work on thirteenth and fourteenth century French, Occitan, and Catalan texts, and medieval transgender studies. My current book project, "The Trans Middle Ages", analyses medieval representations of gender transition and transformation through the lens of modern queer and trans theory.
Research Keywords
- medieval social and cultural history
- Transgender studies
- Sexuality and Queer Studies
- Medieval transgender studies
- Medieval Language or Literature
- Hagiography
- French Language and Literature
Creative Research
- The Medieval Podcast with Danièle Cybulskie : Gender, Transgender and the Middle Ages with Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt
Other,
completed
12/07/2023.
https://www.medievalists.net/2023/12/gender-transg... - The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast, by Jonathan Correa-Reyes, Reed O'Mara, Logan Quigley, and the Graduate Student Committee of the Medieval Academy of America. Season 1, Episode 2: Medieval Trans Studies, hosted by Anna Kłosowska and featuring Gabrielle M. W. Bychowski, Micah Goodrich, Blake Gutt, and Clovis Maillet.
Other,
completed
04/2022.
https://rss.com/podcasts/mmapodcast - Notches blog: Interview with Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt, co-editors of Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography (Amsterdam University Press, 2021)
Other,
completed
09/09/2021.
https://notchesblog.com/2021/09/09/trans-and-gende...
Presentations
- Medieval Studies Colloquium, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: ‘Medieval Trans Pessimism with Tiresias’, 8 November 2023. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/08/2023.
- Department of French and Italian, University of Pittsburgh, PA: ‘What Can Medieval Trans Studies Do?’, 14 September 2022. Presentation, Presented, 09/14/2022.
Publications
- Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt (eds), 2021. Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography. Amsterdam University Press.
Published, 04/2021.
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462988248/trans-and... - Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt, 2021. "Introduction", in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, ed. Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt (Amsterdam University Press), pp. 11-40.
Published, 04/2021.
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/6120... - Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt, 2021. "Appendix: Trans and Genderqueer Studies Terminology, Language, and Usage Guide", in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, ed. Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt (Amsterdam University Press), pp. 281-330.
Published, 04/2021.
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462988248/trans-and... - Blake Gutt, 2021. "Holy Queer and Holy Cure: Sanctity, Disability and Transgender Embodiment in Tristan de Nanteuil", in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, ed. Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt (Amsterdam University Press), pp. 223-244.
Published, 04/2021.
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/6120... - Blake Gutt, 2020. "Transgender Mutation and the Canon: Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune", postmedieval 11.4, 451-58.
Published, 12/21/2020.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-0... - Blake Gutt, 2019. "Medieval Trans Lives in Anamorphosis: Looking Back and Seeing Differently (Pregnant Men and Backward Birth)", Medieval Feminist Forum 55.1, 174-206.
Published, 06/2019.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mff/vol55/iss1/7/ - Zoe Angelis and Blake Gutt (eds), 2019. Stains/Les taches : Communication and Contamination in French and Francophone Literature and Culture. Oxford, UK: Peter Lang.
Published, 05/2019.
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055398 - Zoe Angelis and Blake Gutt, 2019. "Introduction: The stain and/as human; the stain and/as art", in Stains/Les taches : Communication and Contamination in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, edited by Zoe Angelis and Blake Gutt (Oxford, UK: Peter Lang), 1-9.
Published, 05/2019.
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055398 - Blake Gutt, 2018. "An Infestation of Signification: Narrative and Visual Parasitism on the Manuscript Page", in Parasites: Exploitation and Interference in French Thought and Culture, edited by Matt Phillips and Tomas Weber (Oxford, UK: Peter Lang), pp. 189-212.
Published, 11/2018.
https://doi.org/10.3726/b11573 - Blake Gutt, 2018. "Transgender Genealogy in Tristan de Nanteuil", Exemplaria 30.2, 129-46.
Published, 05/2018.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10412573.2018.1453652