Lara Farina, an associate professor of English at West Virginia University, was name co-editor of Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies. The publication is a cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly journal in medieval studies published by Palgrave Macmillan. The journal aims to provide scholarship in which texts, artifacts, and ideas from early periods of history provide new ways of thinking on current events and issues. Postmedieval was voted best new journal of 2012 by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.
Dr. Farina is the author of Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). She joined the faculty at West Virginia University in 2002. Dr. Farina is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from Fordham University in New York.