E. Jane Burns's work centers on issues of gender, feminist theory, and material culture in medieval texts. Her study of courtly love and clothing in thirteenth-century French culture (Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) extends strategies of feminist reading advanced in her earlier Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. Recently, she has edited a volume of essays devoted to dress, textiles, clothwork and other cultural imaginings (Medieval Fabrications, Palgrave MacMillan, 2004) and served as a subject editor for Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia (Routledge, 2006). She is currently completing a book entitled “Sea of Silk: Women Working Textiles in the Medieval Mediterranean.” Jane Burns teaches courses on feminist and gender theory, women's spirituality across cultures, and courtship and courtliness.