Academy Members

Steven Justice

University of California-Berkeley

Steven Justice is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California-Berkeley. His work sits at the crossroads of literature, history, and philosophy. With works such as “Did the Middle Ages Believe in Their Miracles?”, he became a prominent voice in the ongoing debate surrounding historicism in the humanities. His Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381 won the MLA Prize for a First Book in 1995. He has held the Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship, and been chosen as a University of California President’s Research Fellow in the Humanities, a Council of the Humanities Fellow at Princeton, and has earned fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Huntington Library. He is working now on Volume 3 of the Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman.

October 2024