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Carol Pasternack is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1983, and her central interests include Old and Middle English literature; history of the English language; oral and textual theory; and gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages. She is the author of The Textuality of Old English Poetry (1995), as well as articles on oral and textual theory, and gender and sexuality. In addition, she has co-edited three collections of essays, Vox intexta: Orality and Texuality in the Middle Ages with A. N. Doane (1991), Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages with Sharon Farmer (2003), and Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England with Lisa M. C. Weston (2004). Professor Pasternack is currently at work on a book titled Sex, Text, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England. She is an active member of the UCSB Program in Medieval Studies.