Marybeth Ruether-Wu earned her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2017, where she defended her dissertation, Revel, Reiving, and Outlawry: Regulating the Body Politic In Late Medieval Popular Literature. Recently, she contributed an article on blood feud and ballads to the forthcoming book Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales: “‘So shall we take our dinner sweet’: When the Greenwood Consumes the Outlaw.” She has spent the past several years teaching at Ithaca College and baking increasingly-outrageous cakes. For the latter (including a cake that spurts “blood” when you cut it—you may notice a theme), she can be found @anarchist.cake.collective on Instagram.
Marybeth Ruether-Wu
Articles by Marybeth Ruether-Wu:
Sores of the Realm
in Issue 95 | Symptoms (Jul 2020)In the Middle Ages corruption usually meant something less abstract: the deterioration of physical matter, particularly bodies.