DeVan Ard
Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Beirut.
Medieval literature, lyric poetry, liturgical culture.
da153@aub.edu.lb · AUB · academia.edu
Scholarly Writing
“‘And yet I stond’: Posture and Contemplative Theology in Julian of Norwich’s Revelation of Divine Love.”Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 52.1 (2026)
“William Dunbar’s Liturgical Poetics.”Studies in the Age of Chaucer 43 (2021)
Book in progress: Liturgical Poetics: Translingual Lyric and the Arts of Worship in Late Medieval Britain
Public Writing
“One Week in Beirut”The Point Magazine (online), March 2026
“The Possibility of Peace”The Point Magazine (online), December 2025
“Carpe Diem”The Point Magazine (online), February 2025
Teaching
Early English Lyric and Its Others · ENGL 302
Survey of English Literature: Beowulf to Milton · ENGL 205
History of the English Language · ENGL 229
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