He researches and teaches on crusading, memory, apocalypticism, Jews and Christians, and medievalism. See more at his homepage. He's also an elected Democratic Supervisor (District G) for Montgomery County, VA. Richard Godden is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Tulane University. His dissertation, “Fame’s Untimeliness,” explores the intersection of judgment and fame in fourteenth-century English literature, specifically how medieval writers use the concept of fame in order to mediate and represent the past. His current work explores how the confrontation with the monstrous in medieval romance reveals troubling yet productive temporalities.