Harley is a doctoral candidate in English literature, with a focus on late medieval popular religion. Her research explores gender and sexuality, hermeneutics, and issues of body, liminality, and agency. Her dissertation, "Fallen Flesh: Experiencing the Body in the Middle English Lives of Adam and Eve," investigates scenes of starvation, pregnancy and labor, exile, and wounding, and contextualizes them in the religious and social concerns of the late medieval period, arguing that these post-Eden apocrypha provided readers a means to contend with the vulnerability of their human bodies.

 

Harley currently serves as the Assistant Director of UTK's First-Year Composition program and also works as a tutor in the Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center.

Master of Arts, English literature, University of South Florida, 2018

Bachelor of Arts, English literature, University of South Florida, 2015